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we’d never sufficiently planned for operating against a wholly

they kept driving home the point that it was

Arik and some other ministers to the massacre. Determined to shift the

I’d remained troubled not just by our failure

watching the coverage of the demonstration on

it tapped into a rumble of growing questions

too: 20somethings back from the fighting and reservists a

Peace Now was the driving force behind demands

the former intelligence officer who was his main liaison with the army.

but couldn’t get through to him. I contacted Oded

though I didn’t take it as referring to the Palestinian

the head of the operations branch in the kirya. I listened rather

the former paratroop commander whose division had

ignoring weeks of US pressure not to do so

Gemayel had at various times been at odds with

but shortly before eleven at night the confirmation came: the

the reports from Beirut suggested that Gemayel had

nine days before his scheduled inauguration

it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian

predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited