Ariel Quote by Yasser Arafat

In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked…

— Ronen Bergman

“In the summer of 1982, while Israeli armored tanks and gunships imposed a siege of another age on rampartless Beirut, cutting off the water…

— Rabih Alameddine

It will be another disaster, after Irangate. Not only that, not only this longest Arab - Israeli confrontation: but also the most important and…

— Yasser Arafat

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and…

— Noam Chomsky

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

— Walid Jumblatt

“The PLO was founded three years before the Israelis ever occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and that the PLO wanted Israel wiped off…

— Brigitte Gabriel

[Alexander Haig and Ariel Sharon ] casualties in this war were more than in all the previous Arab - Israeli confrontations. If you remember,…

— Yasser Arafat

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

— Nadine Labaki

History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around…

— Ahmed Yassin

“This gruesome and absurd doorstep suicide symbolized for me the mood of Beirut at the end of 1983 and in early 1984—a mood of…

— Thomas L. Friedman

I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or…

— Victor Davis Hanson