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Lebanon

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…e line of withdrawal. Such a line had to be, to the best of the United Nations’ knowledge, in conformity with Lebanon’s international boundar- ies. On this basis, and with the consent of the parties, the UN Secretary-General could then repo...

The Crooked Course Xxxix IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023171.txt p.1 View source release ↗

When the guns finally fell silent, I had time to give full rein to my thoughts. There were obviously fundamental questions about how the war had happened, starting with why we hadn’t known ahead of time that two neighboring states were abou...

When the guns finally fell silent, I had time to give full rein to my thoughts IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028004.txt p.1 View source release ↗

…w-level intelligence could never address the real need for Israel: to ensure we had early warning if Syria or Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt, were preparing to go to war against us. He began toying with the idea of training a small force of Israe...

information. But in talking with his wartime friends, he realized this kind of IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027905.txt p.1 View source release ↗

“Tell Motta we know about it,” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a problem.” I figured there were at most four or five Lebanese soldiers manning the checkpoint. The last thing they’d want to do is get involved in a firefight between u...

“Tell Motta we know about it,” I said. “We’ve planned for it. It’s not a IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011600.txt p.1 View source release ↗

…often seen as having radically divergent and competing visions for the future of the region. Which is why, in Lebanon — a country where the two powers wield extensive influence over their respective allies — the news of a possible rapproche...

Saudi and Iran, powerhouses of Sunni and Shiite Islam respectively IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031573.txt p.1 View source release ↗

…undisguised hope that this was just a brief political hiatus, for appearance’s sake, and that before too long Lebanon would become the second Arab country to make peace with Israel. Not just peace, but something more nearly like an alliance...

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…in turned to a fallback plan. He knew that Begin did share his determination to get Arafat and the PLO out of Lebanon. Even the Americans were ready to support such an arrangement, assuming it could be negotiated and implemented in a way th...

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…ain strategic threat north of the border was not, in fact, the Palestinians. Syria was in military control of Lebanon and, after the peace with Egypt, our most powerful adversary. And no matter what Big Pines might have achieved, it seemed...

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of the invasion force began a pincer movement around the area of eastern Lebanon where large numbers of Syrian soldiers were based. My former Sinai division, the 252 nd , came down from the Golan and started making its way up alongside the...

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…formed 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 almost certainly respond with shell and rocket fire into Israel. T...

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…d, the inevitable result would be a wider conflict, not limited to dealing with Palestinian fighters in south Lebanon but paving the way for Arik to go ahead with his original plan and push all the way to Beirut. This wasn’t mere suppositio...

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…ning 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 strategically critical road that ran between Beirut and Damascus. We would link up in Beirut with t...

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…th a dramatic reassertion of Israeli control over other land captured in the 1967 war. Part of Arik’s plan in Lebanon was to deliver an even more forceful riposte to any suggestion that we would give up control of the West Bank and Gaza. Ye...

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…ful that he was boss. And though my official brief was longer-term planning, almost from day-one the issue of Lebanon overshadowed all others. I knew, from Cinerama, that preparations for a possible military operation in Lebanon were underw...

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…, from our Cinerama deployments, in Arik’s toweringly ambitious, ill-planned and ultimately disastrous war in Lebanon. I became part of months of planning discussions in the kirya before our tanks finally rumbled across the northern border...

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… but fighting was continuing in a few parts of the Golan. In the western corner of the Heights which bordered Lebanon, several villages still lay beyond the Israeli advance. We got an order to see if we could take them. It took barely an ho...

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…ied 19 May, 2014 Article 1. The National Interest Which Road Will Egypt Take? Kathryn Alexeeff Article 2. Now Lebanon What Saudi-Iran talks could mean for Lebanon and the region Alex Rowell Article 3. The Economist India's next prime minist...

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…ony. With backing from Washington, Israel has sought to smash Hezbollah (notably through its 2006 invasion of Lebanon) and detach Syria from Iran, a country Israel views as its most dangerous regional rival. Neither objective has so far bee...

about how to deal with the growing protests has led to increasingly IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030033.txt p.1 View source release ↗

especially compared with Iraq and Lebanon.

especially compared with Iraq and Lebanon stability and security p.1 View source release ↗

…ly running east-west between the sea and Mount Hermon. The northern part was given to France and divided into Lebanon and a rump Syria entity. The southern part was given to Britain and was called Palestine

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