[unclear: Giant] Step Towards Middle East [unclear: ce]

[unclear: When] Israel and Egypt signed their peace [unclear: ement] they transformed the history of [unclear: Middle] East. In military terms alone the [unclear: on's] two most powerful forces have been [unclear: d] from each other as combatants, their [unclear: ty] to neutralize or if need be, deal with [unclear: r] respective enemies enhanced beyond [unclear: sure].

[unclear: Gyria] will have to think ten times more [unclear: re] taking so fateful a step as sending its [unclear: ,ps] southwards beyond the Litani River, [unclear: ill] Iraq and opportunistic Jordan in Sysupport. Soviet expansionism, through [unclear: an] or more local proxy — such as in Et[unclear: na], Libya, South Yemen, Afghanistan Angola — will have to take into account [unclear: e] realistically an Egypt with far greater [unclear: er] of resistance.

[unclear: These] are not the only reasons for the [unclear: er] of the so-called radical Arab States [unclear: e] Israel-Egypt agreement or the bitterof the Soviet Union that sponsors them, they are the most important reasons be[unclear: e] they thwart such dynasitic ambitions [unclear: yria] and Iraq and the egocentric and [unclear: scienceless] imperialism of the Russians.

[unclear: Take] Syria as an example and the subor[unclear: te] PLO under its control. Only the most [unclear: e] have failed to see until now its dynastic [unclear: e] to achieve a "Greater Syria," a type of [unclear: dle] East equivalent to Hitler's "Greatest [unclear: ch]." Its blueprint was to swallow not [unclear: Lebanon], but the territories of Israel, [unclear: ian], the West Bank and Gaza Strip as. And between Western appeasement, services of the PLO as its trojan horse, the panic of King Hussein, the Syrians [unclear: e] not doing so badly.

[unclear: Lebanon's] sovereignty and democracy been overcome, its Christian [unclear: commu-] upon which both were based driven [unclear: he] defensive by a mixture of carefully [unclear: ared] and staged PLO, and so-called 'lef[unclear: subversion] and direct genocidal bom [unclear: Iments] of the civilian population by the [unclear: an] army. All of this was done in the [unclear: e] of Jihad (holy Islmanic war) for home sumption and in that of anti-imperialist [unclear: leftism] for propaganda export. It brou[unclear: the] Syrians as far as the Litani River, [unclear: n] Western acquiescence, or at least non[unclear: rference].