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When the IDF drove the PLO out of Damour in June 1982, Prime Minister Menachem Begin announced that the town’s Christian residents could come home and rebuild. Returning villagers found their former homes littered with spray-painted Palestinian nationalist slogans, Fatah literature and posters of Yasser Arafat. They told Shipler how happy they were that Israel had liberated them.</blockquote>
When the IDF drove the PLO out of Damour in June 1982, Prime Minister Menachem Begin announced that the town’s Christian residents could come home and rebuild. Returning villagers found their former homes littered with spray-painted Palestinian nationalist slogans, Fatah literature and posters of Yasser Arafat. They told Shipler how happy they were that Israel had liberated them.</blockquote>
Author:<ref>Eliyahu Tal, "PLO," (1982)[https://www.google.com/books/edition/PLO/AXCgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22As+the+Christian+world+remained+silent,+the+massacre+of+Damour%22 p. 46]</ref>
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Christian Damour - A Joint PLO-Moslem conquest.
... Few knew or remember that this Christian town of 30,000 had resisted the PLO, the target for an all-out PLO and Moslem leftist as early as 1976.
As the Christian world remained silent, the massacre of Damour took place, with some 10,000 inhabitants, brutally murdered and the survivors fled. Damour, empty of its residents, was taken over by the PLO, which made it into a stronghold including its churches...
American correspondents who visited the town following its capture by the Israeli forces reported:
From The New York Times, (June 21, 1982) by David Shipler:
"For nearly seven years, until the Israeli army attacked and captured it last week, the town was inaccessible to its own people ; the Palestine Liberation Organization made it a stronghold, using the churches as firing ranges and armories.
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