Noam Chomsky - Turning the Tide U.S. intervention in

The Race to Destruction
Lebanon from the podium. Today it is President Reagan who tells
us that an escalation of the war in Lebanon could lead to World
War III.
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The impassioned denunciations of the Israeli attack by Lebanese UN
Ambassador Ghassan Tueni (a conservative Christian, owner of
Lebanon’s respected newspaper An-nahar) at the UN disarmament
session were also ignored by the peace movement, and also, naturally,
by the New York Times, which never mentioned him during those
terrible months, while they were applauding the “liberation” of Lebanon.
It is remarkable to see that even the peace movement, in this and other
ways, registered its commitment to the general principle that the threat
of nuclear war is a relatively insignificant matter when measured against
the importance of protecting Israel and US relations with it from critical
scrutiny. The event also illustrates the unwillingness, until recently, to
face the most serious of the threats to survival: the deadly connection. 14