19 FEBRUARY 1983, page 8

Rites Of A Beirut Spring

Alan Ross I n the early Sixties I spent a weekend in Beirut on my way to India. 1 remembered it as a city of solid Ottoman buildings, palm trees spraying shadows over......

Israel: The Awkward Truth

Christopher Hitchens Against this set of comforting and self- serving deductions, consider the evidence of two Israelis, General Rafael Eitan and Jacob° Timerman. General Eitan......