ocr: absence of PLO activity in south Lebanon, the Israeli government had decreed that any attack against aJew or an Israeli anywhere in the world would constitute a violation of its twelve-month old cease-fire agreement with the PLO.No matter, then, that the man behind the attack was Abu Nidal, the Palestinian renegade condemned to death by the PLO. Israel ordered its army to retaliate in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, accusing the United Nations officer who reported the armoured columns rolling across the border of giving away military secrets. The invasion was stunning in its scope and savagery. ...
