of fuel food and cash millions of dollars he said enough for the hotel residents and stand for the months to come. also lent journalists money. money. flows better. life for the commodore based journalists jeering the invasion was tough. west beirut was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate shelling. but they told the real story. i think the beirut siege as i said was a big eye opener for many correspondents who only in the israeli story been told them. and they were able firsthand when they went out to see the suffering of lebanese and palestinians and they really went after the story very very hard very hard and harshly and well. i think at that stage though if the commodore hadn t been there the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported and you can fact the commodore in a way for this and the people in it under years of i think the the israelis had at that stage in the early eighty s the worst press they ve ever had before or
money. flows better. life for the commodore based journalists joining the invasion was tough. west beirut was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate shelling. but they told the real story. i think the beirut siege of us it was a big eye opener for many correspondents who only in the israeli story but until then. and they were able firsthand when they went out to see the suffering of lebanese and palestinians. and they really went after the story very very hard very hard and harshly and well. i think at that stage though if the commodore hadn t been there the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported and you can fact the commodore in a way for this and the people in it under years of i think the the israelis had at that stage in the early eighty s the worst press they ve ever had before or since. the seventy day israeli siege of beirut was lifted on the twenty first of all because one nine hundred eighty two and the p.l.o. pulled
perhaps supporting other opposition parties and this is a good opportunity for them as well to be in the streets and and against this government and president but would it matter what i wanted to do was really try with this speech to appeal to the more moderate supporters those who might be swayed in the many people who are at home who aren t necessarily in the streets but support the movement because they also feel that they re struggling a bit so i think the idea is to try to appeal to them and hope that at some point you ll be able to move forward and negotiate better i mean whatever happens he wants to just stop the violence on the streets i mean it s ruining his reputation putting his own presidency in peril you might say and he wants to find some sort of way of negotiating but is going to be very hard for him at all mark or you d have to say in the future because he wants to keep rolling out all these ambitious reforms and right now if each time you have protests like t
money. money. flows better. life for the commodore based journalists jeering the invasion was tough. west beirut was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate shelling. but they told the real story. i think the siege of us it was a big eye opener for many correspondents who only in the israeli story building. and they were able firsthand when they went out to see the suffering of lebanese and palestinians and they really went after the story very very hard very hard and harshly and well. i think at that stage though if the commodore hadn t been there the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported and you can fact the commodore in a way for this and the people in it and the use of i think the the israelis had at that stage in the early eighty s the worst press they ve ever had before or since. the seventy day israeli siege of beirut was lifted on the twenty first of all because one nine hundred eighty two and the p.l.o. pulled out of
not have been so. like. it was a great new center and overall was this godfather of the journalists use of messiah . the next room i was in was underground in a tiny filthy dirty prison cell basically as a hostage. we ve . welcome to nineteen sixty s beirut. for several decades this cosmopolitan city attracted international jet setters who could get from the ski slopes to the beach in no time. the hotel district was at the heart of its a luxury tourism economy and in its heyday hotels like this and george the phoenicia on the holiday inn were full of wealthy tourists businessman journalists diplomats and the occasional spies. travelers on a tighter budget stayed at hotels like the commodore and in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. it became host to the world s media when the lebanese civil war erupted. in one nine hundred seventy a young arab millionaire use of mizzle took the commodore hotel on a twenty year lease from the kuwaiti royal family. in a zone was a leading inve