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Перевод: Beirut

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Тезаурус:

1. It was a gentle enough life and it took only six and a half hours to travel home by taxi from Beirut to Jaffa.
2. There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops.
3. Even today Lebanon's Christian leadership is unwilling to admit that Lebanon has an "Arab identity", although the people of Beirut, Tripoli and Baalbek joined the rising.
4. Laid across a map of Israel, these documents form a patchwork of disputed ownership, a matrix of lands from northern Galilee to Ashqelon for which there are now in existence two perfectly legal deeds: one, in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv or Beersheba, proving irrefutably that the land is now owned by an Israeli, the other - in Beirut or Amman - showing that the rightful owner is a Palestinian Arab.
5. French balancing act tipped Beirut into war: In his concluding article on Lebanon's history, Robert Fisk examines how France's "political solution" created a war
6. All this was shorthand for a simple warning: that if the Syrians pull out of west Beirut, the militias would go to war again in its streets, and there would be nothing the Christians could do about it.
7. Before the fighting started in 1948, some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut.
8. In recent months, the only countries which have welcomed him have been Yemen, Sudan and Tunisia, where the PLO has its headquarters since being driven out of Beirut in 1982.
9. Representatives of 21 factions met in Beirut over Christmas to issue a joint call for Mr Saddam Hussein's overthrow in order to forestall war in the Gulf.
10. Yet through the centuries the Maronites were able to spread south in Lebanon, through Beirut, into the lands of the Druze and Shia Muslims, the Chouf and the lower Bekaa, settling on the low stony ridge-lines south-east of Tyre.
11. At their worst, contemporary heroes and heroines are stomach-churning models of narcissism, but the spirit of the times responds to Nelson Mandela as well as Madonna, to the Beirut hostages as well as the latest football star.
12. Of William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, his captors sent back videotapes as he died, slowly, of the effects of pulmonary oedema and neglect.
13. More than 820 people have died in and around Beirut in battles between General Aoun's forces and Syrian and Syrian-backed Muslim militias since mid-March, after the general's declaration of a "war of liberation" against the occupying Syrians.