But one would think that times have changed and that Middle East depiction in films has improved a bit | [ ] on with on the July 2006 — 26:30 into the broadcast• The Lebanese people, with all its sects, has never proven that it wants, or is capable of, true coexistence |
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There were often months of cease-fires that were rarely violated, and days of intense fighting were often followed by days of no fighting | And what is the deal with camels in Middle Eastern cities? Lebanon often provided a venue for American and Western action films |
The movie should have reminded Americans that, in fact, from 1975 until 1982, the US diplomatic and military presence in Lebanon was officially through understandings between the CIA and Force 17 of the Fath Movement under the direct protection of the PLO the PLO assigned the Lebanese Arab Amry, which split off from the Phalanges-controlled Lebanese Army, to protect the US embassy in Beirut.
17But the power of the Mossad was—typical in Western culture—highly exaggerated | Also, in the early phase of the war 1975-76, the social scene among Muslims was much more secular than it became in the 1980s |
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Yet, the film assumes that fighting went on non-stop | Served as a Scholar-in-Residence at Middle East Institute in Washington DC |
It was the Israeli invasion of 1982 which eradicated the PLO and its great influence from Lebanon and unleashed religious forces among Muslims of Lebanon and the region Hizbullah never existed before the devastating and brutal Israeli invasion of 1982.
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