I’m not “way off” on anything!
Beirut wasn’t about Israel.
What were the Marines doing in those Beirut barracks?
“The Beirut Barracks Bombings (October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon”
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing<
“These attacks eventually led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.”