Siege of Beirut
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The <entity_1> took place in summer 1982, as part of the <entity_0>, which resulted from the breakdown of the ceasefire effected by the United Nations. The <entity_6> ended with the Palestinian Liberation Organization being forced out of <entity_5> and the rest of <entity_4>. The architect of the war, Ariel Sharon (then Defense Minister), presented it to the Israeli government as a limited incursion into Southern <entity_4> but took his troops to <entity_5>. The invasion was code-named "Operation Pines" or <entity_0>", and was intended to weaken or evict the PLO and impose Bachir Gemayel, head of the Christian Phalange party, as President of <entity_4> in order to get <entity_4> to sign a peace treaty with Israel and bring the country into Israel's sphere of influence. One group moved along the coastal road to <entity_5>, another aimed at cutting the main <entity_5>-Damascus road, and the third moved up along the <entity_4>-Syria border, hoping to block Syrian reinforcements or interference. The ring around <entity_5> was closed by 13 <entity_3>, 7 days after the start of Israeli invasion to <entity_4>. Israel hoped to complete the <entity_6> as quickly as possible; their goal all along in invading <entity_4> was for a quick and decisive victory. During the <entity_6>, the Israelis secured several key locations in other parts of <entity_4>, but did not manage to take the city before a peace agreement was finally implemented. On <entity_2>, 350 French paratroopers arrived in <entity_5>, followed by 800 US Marines and Italian Bersaglieri plus additional international peacekeepers (for a total force of 2,130) to supervise the removal of the PLO, first by ship and then overland, to Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria. Following the <entity_6> of <entity_5>, Arafat fled to Greece, and then to Tunis, establishing a new headquarters there. And the events that affected me directly were <entity_0> and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade <entity_4>, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet.
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