ajwps
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r2200t said:Found an interesting detailed article about what happened in Jordan. It's a bit long but worth reading. "As the guerrilla effort mounted, Israel retaliated quickly and with increasing effectiveness. In March 1968, an Israeli brigade attacked the Jordanian village of Al Karamah, said to be the guerrilla capital. Although the brigade inflicted damage, it was driven back and in the process suffered substantial losses. The incident boosted Palestinian morale and gave the PLO instant prestige within the Arab community. In reprisal, Israel launched heavy attacks on Irbid in June 1968 and on As Salt in August. It soon became obvious to the PLO that the generally open terrain of the West Bank did not provide the kind of cover needed for classic guerrilla operations. Moreover, the Palestinian population residing in the territories had not formed any significant armed resistance against the Israeli occupation. By late 1968, the main fedayeen activities in Jordan seemed to shift from fighting Israel to attempts to overthrow Hussein.
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Hey you forgot the first two paragraphs from your site about Jordan. Let me post them for all to see....
The 1967 defeat radicalized the Palestinians, who had looked to the Arab countries to defeat first the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine before 1948), and after 1948 the State of Israel, so that they could regain their homeland. The PLO had no role in the June 1967 War. After the succession of Arab failures in conventional warfare against Israel, however, the Palestinians decided to adopt guerrilla warfare tactics as the most effective method of attacking and defeating Israel. In February 1969, Arafat (who remained the leader of Al Fatah) became head of the PLO. By early 1970, at least seven guerrilla organizations were identified in Jordan. One of the most important organizations was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) led by George Habash. Although the PLO sought to integrate these various groups and announced from time to time that this process had occurred, they were never effectively united (see The Palestinians and the Palestine Liberation Organization , ch. 4).
At first by conviction and then by political necessity, Hussein sought accommodation with the fedayeen and provided training sites and assistance. In Jordan's internal politics, however, the main issue between 1967 and 1971 was the struggle between the government and the guerrilla organizations for political control of the country. Based in the refugee camps, the fedayeen virtually developed a state within a state, easily obtaining funds and arms from both the Arab states and Eastern Europe and openly flouting Jordanian law.
So Israel did not attack Jordan for no particular reason. The Fedayeen and the PLO attacked Israel from Jordan. Did you really think that Israel would not respond to an attack based in Jordan? And you say that I distort your words??????
http://www.ghazi.de/populat.html#palest
So i guess the Lebanese weren't too bad either, although they put all the palestinians in Camps (where they still are today), since Palestinians on their land represent ~18% of the entire Lebanese population. Also many attrocities occured when Sharon allowed Christian Lebanese soldiers to enter Muslim Palestinian camps and slaughter everyone there. Sharon lost his job after what happened and is now the elected leader of Israel, funny how the world works.
Why doesn't that not too bad Lebanon absorb all their Arab brothers who live in Israel? Why only 15% of the Arabs kept in refugee camps so that they don't start killing the Lebanese and Syrians who run Lebanon? What are you thinking?
So you THINK that Sharon knew the Christian Phalangists were going to kill the Arab Muslims who had just killed the Christian's families? Do you think that Sharon could read the mind of these Christian's who just had their families murdered?
Israel punished Sharon for a time because of outside pressures. Similar outside pressures that form Sharon's policy of exposing Israel to mortal danger.