On August 12, 1982, Israel launched a massive bombing campaign over Beirut that came to be known as "Black Thursday." In the conflagration's aftermath, over five hundred Lebanese and Palestinian civilians lay dead, countless were displaced, and widespread hunger and infestation took hold in the absence of running water and food.
Yet beyond the immediate human suffering, the biggest tragedy of that campaign was that it actually worked. On the heels of the bombing, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) finally...
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