Past in Perspective.

'You cannot continue to victimize someone

else just because you yourself were a victim

once there has to be a limit.'

Edward Said

14th March 1978 saw the beginning of the week long 1978 South Lebanon Conflict, where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) invaded and occupied southern Lebanon in what they named Operation Litani. This was part of the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Palestinian groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO) having established a presence in Lebanon.

The operation was undertaken in direct retaliation to the 'Coastal Road massacre' that involved the hijacking of an Israeli bus and the killing of 38 civilians by Fatah, a PLO faction...