"[Reagan said] a particularly devastating [Israeli] attack on western Beirut in August 1982 had led King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to call the White House "begging me to do something."
"I told him I was calling P.M. Begin immediately. And I did — I was angry — I told him it had to stop or our entire future relationship was endangered. I used the word holocaust deliberately & said the symbol of war was becoming a picture of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off."
