Volume 35, Issue 5 _________________________________Bible Prophecy Ministry


Israel-Lebanon Chronology



      During the last week of May, 2000 Israel withdrew its defense forces from South Lebanon marking an end to an 18 year long attempt to defend Northern Israel from terrorist raids upon the farm communities in that region. Israel launched an offensive against Yasser Arafat and his Fatah terrorist organization stationed in South Lebanon in 1982, chasing him all the way to Beirut. Israel had maintained a security zone in Southern Lebanon ever since.

1964. . . THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ORGANIZATION WAS FOUNDED IN 1964 WITH YASSER ARAFAT BECOMING ITS CHAIRMAN IN 1968. PLO TERRORISTS GUERRILLAS BEGAN CONDUCTING RAIDS INTO ISRAEL FROM LEBANON IN 1965, WHICH PROVOKED ISRAELI REPRISALS INTO SOUTH LEBANON.

DEC. 1968. . . PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS MACHINE GUN ISRAELI AIRPLANE IN ATHENS, GREECE; KILLING MANY INNOCENT ISRAELI CITIZENS.

1970. . . PLO GUERRILA FIGHTERS UNDER ARAFAT WAGE CIVIL WAR IN JORDAN SEEKING TO OVERTHROW KING HUSSEIN.

1971-1974 . . . PLO EJECTED FROM JORDAN AND RELOCATES INTO LEBANON CAUSING ANOTHER CIVIL WAR UPRISING THERE AMONG THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES FROM THE PREVIOUS WARS WITH ISRAEL.

1975. . . PLO DESTABILIZES LEBANESE GOVERNMENT, ALLOWING SYRIA TO MOVE INTO THE REGION. LEBANON BECOMES A HOTBED OF CIVIL WAR BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND FANATICAL MUSLIMS. PLO TERRORISTS LAUNCH ATTACKS IN NORTH ISRAEL.

MARCH 1978. . . ARAFAT'S "FATAH" GUERRILLAS ATTACK BUS IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL KILLING 35 PEOPLE. THREE DAYS LATER IDF FORCES PURSUE PLO TERRORISTS INTO SOUHERN LEBANON. ( UNITED NATIONS PASSES RESOLUTION 425 )

1978-1982. . . PLO TERRORISTS LAUNCH SPORADIC ASSAULTS ON COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.

JUNE 1982. . . ISRAEL INVADES SOUTHERN LEBANON IN PURSUIT OF ARAFAT AND HIS PLO TERROR UNITS AND GUERRILLA FIGHTERS IN RETALIATION FOR RAIDS INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL.

SEPT. 1982. . . ISRAELI ARMIES CORNER ARAFAT AND ABOUT 10,000 PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS INSIDE OF BEIRUT, LEBANON. UNITED NATIONS DEMANDS CEASE FIRE. "UNITED STATES" RESCUES ARAFAT AND RELOCATES HIM TO LIBYA.

1982. . . 282 AMERICAN MARINES ARE KILLED IN BEIRUT BARRACKS BY AN ISLAMIC SUICIDE BOMBER.

1985. . . ISRAEL WITHDRAWS INTO SOUTH LEBANON SECURITY ZONE ALONG WITH THE DEFEATED CHRISTIAN FORCES IN LEBANON'S CIVIL WAR.

1990. . . LEBANESE CIVIL WAR ENDS WITH PRO SYRIA-HEZBULLAH GOVERNMENT TAKING POWER. ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELI FORCES IN SOUTHERN LEBANON BY SYRIAN AND HEZBULLAH TERRORISTS INCREASE.

APRIL 1998. . . UNITED NATIONS REAFFIRMS ITS RESOLUTION "425" DEMANDING THAT ISRAEL WITHDRAW FROM LEBANESE TERRITORY.

      THE UNITED NATIONS HAS CONDEMNED ISRAEL OVER 390 TIMES FOR DEFENDING ITSELF AGAINST TERRORIST ATTACKS INNIATED FROM PLO AND SYRIAN-HEZBULLAH TERRORISTS IN LEBANON.

      NOT ONE SINGLE TIME HAS THE UNITED NATIONS CONDEMNED SYRIA, ARAFAT, HEZBULLAH, OR ANY OTHER MUSLIM-ARAB TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FOR ACTS AGAINST ISRAEL.

Darrell G. Young

Copyright©2000

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