Original sentence: The organization began to take shape during the 1982 Lebanon War; on February 16 1985 Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin publicly declared the group's manifesto, which included three goals: the eradication of Western imperialism in Lebanon, the transformation of Lebanon's multi-confessional state into an Islamic state, and the complete destruction of the state of Israel
Edited sentence: (Israel has always aspired to seize parts of, or the whole of, Lebanon eg Ben-Gurion in May 1948 "Our aim is to smash Lebanon ...... The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine.However, it was not until February 16 1985 that Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin publicly declared the group's manifesto, which included three goals: the eradication of Western imperialism in Lebanon, the transformation of Lebanon's multi-confessional state into an Islamic state, and the complete destruction of the state of Israel.The organization seems to have come into being with Israel's 1982 Lebanon War invasion