ABSTRACT
Writ large, the Palestinians became the casualties of the reemergence of the Arab state system after the blow it received in the 1967 War, by the rise of Islamic radicalism and sectarianism culminating in state failure in Lebanon. The removal of the Palestinian factions from Jordan reflected the former process: the evacuation of the PLO from Beirut in 1982 and the subsequent rise and prominence of Shiite politics and instruments of violence reflected the second and third. Between the reemergence of the Arab state and the fallout of the Lebanese failed state, Palestinians were simply bereft of a sanctuary or haven to create a coherent military.
