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1982 Lebanon War: what Wikipedia removed

“Terror” peaked at 11 mentions in this opening in 2020 and has fallen to 4, while “occupation” rose from 1 to 6. The war that began with PLO attacks is now introduced as the “1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon”.

The word “terror” appeared 11 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2020. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 4. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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word20052010201520206 October 202320252026
terror068111044
militant0011100
islamist0000011
jihad0000001
massacre0011122
genocide0100000

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The trigger for the war, the assassination attempt by Abu Nidal’s gunmen, was reworded.
  • Begin’s statement blaming the PLO, removed.
  • The PLO’s relocation to Lebanon under Arafat, the reason the war happened there, removed from the opening.
  • The sentence describing who was operating out of Lebanon, removed.
  • The cited account framing the invasion as a response to PLO attacks, removed.
  • The Israeli name for the operation was dropped; today the article opens as the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
  • The word Phalangist, naming who carried out Sabra and Shatila, was removed from that sentence.
  • Israel’s war aims were reworded.
  • The siege of the PLO in Beirut was reworded.
  • Operational detail, removed.
  • A quoted line from the period, removed.

Who made the cuts

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Wikipedia publishes who makes every edit. These removals were traced to the exact revision that made them:

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17955686):

Template:Totallydisputed Map of modern Lebanon The 1982 Lebanon War , also known as the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon , and dubbed Operation Peace for the Galilee ( Shlom HaGalil in Hebrew ) by Israel, began June 6 , 1982 , when the Israel Defence Force invaded southern Lebanon in response to the Abu Nidal organization ‘s assassination attempt against Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom , Shlomo Argov , but mainly to halt Katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli population in the northern Galilee region launched from Southern Lebanon. See also Operation Litani . After attacking PLO , Syrian and Muslim Lebanese forces, Israel occupied southern Lebanon. Surrounded in West Beirut and subject to heav…

2026 (revision 1366294211):

1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon Belligerents Israel Lebanese Forces (16 September 1982) South Lebanon Army PLO Syria Others: Lebanese National Resistance Front Al-Mourabitoun PKK Hezbollah ( Islamic Jihad Organisation , after 1982) Support: Iran Commanders and leaders Menachem Begin Ariel Sharon Rafael Eitan David Ivry Ze’ev Almog Yekutiel Adam † Elie Hobeika Saad Haddad Yasser Arafat Saad Sayel † Hafez al-Assad Mustafa Tlass Hikmat al-Shihabi Walid Jumblatt Ibrahim Kulaylat Mahsum Korkmaz Strength Israel: 78,000 troops 800 tanks 1,500 APCs 634 aircraft LF : 30,000 troops SLA : 5,000 troops 97 tanks Syria: 22,000 troops 352 tanks 300 APCs 450 aircraft 300 artillery pieces 100 anti-aircraft …

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