The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Israeli terrorism in Lebanon: the war years: " This is an essential account of Israeli record of terrorism in Lebanon while the Israeli occupation army used a fictitious name for ...
“Terrorism,” he explained, “is the deliberate and systematic killing of civilians so as to inspire fear.”
very senior Israeli officials conducted a large-scale campaign of
car-bombings that killed hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese, most of
them civilians.
The secret car-bombing operation Israeli officials conducted in Lebanon
in the early 1980s represents a remarkable historical example of such
“silences,” and of the “rules” that underlie the discourse on
“terrorism” and ensure that certain things simply “cannot be said,”
certain facts simply aren’t ever mentioned.
On October 1, a car “booby-trapped with 220 pounds of TNT and 20 gallons
of gasoline” exploded near the offices of the PLO, in what a UPI
journalist described as “a busy street in Moslem west Beirut packed with
fruit and vegetable venders and housewives doing their morning
shopping.” The bomb “tore the facade off buildings, destroyed 50 cars
and left the street littered with debris and dismembered bodies.”
Immediately following the blast a second bomb, weighing 330 pounds and
which had been planted in another car parked on the same street, was
found and dismantled by bomb disposal experts. Later that same day, “six
other cars loaded with hundreds of pounds of explosives were found and
defused in Beirut and Sidon in what was intended as a devastating blitz
against Palestinians and leftist Lebanese militiamen by rightist
terrorists.”
