Where Arik appears
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fat, and that now was the time to hit back hard. The cabinet was informed that our initial response would be limited: aerial and artillery bombardment of PLO targets throughout Lebanon. Yet Raful told the cabinet that the Palestinians would...
…ed up for an invasion, the less certain I became that Begin’s cabinet understood what we were planning to do. Arik’s original plan was codenamed Oranim: Hebrew for “pine trees”. It involved pushing deep into Lebanon, all the way up to the s...
ally holding. But fundamentally, Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp David peace process in its tracks, and ensuring it...
…ht to bear a quality I’d never suspected he had: a sense of humor. “OK, I’ll agree to promote Barak,” he told Arik. The next day, he said he’d meant Eitan Barak – a very good commander, by the way, who had been one of my instructors in offi...
Omri and Gilad. But Arik also seemed to be undergoing a welcome
Arik’s invasion was a war simply waiting for a credible
I was taken aback by Arik’s almost godlike
and in the weeks ahead Arik left no doubt that he
but Arik made it clear to both me and Raful that he was boss.
Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. D...
…rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think for all of us, even Arik, the issue of who was behind the bombing was hardly the most urgent concern. The immediate danger was a revival of…
