ABSTRACT
The Lebanese connection with the Palestinians and their resolute campaign against the Jewish national movement and the state of Israel are not divorced from links between the Palestinians and the Arab states. The chapter traces several successive stages on the path that led to the connection between the Palestinians and the eruption of warfare in Lebanon in 1975. Palestinian audacity brought on clashes with the army. Lebanese soldiers were abducted, the army entered the camps to punish the Palestinians, and shots were fired against the airport in Khalde. The Palestinian armed struggle against Israel took account of the need for a long war until liberation and victory would be achieved. The travails of the Palestinian revolution were never free of internal disagreements whose consequences were not only political in character but soaked in the blood of internecine warfare. The Lebanese and Palestinians were two different peoples, without a common ancestry, history, or political vision.
