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…line roughly 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, after the Ottoman administrative district Filistina. Given the...

…e Syrians, 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 hour, against no more resistance...

…it from January 29" to February 4. Syria: Israeli warplanes are generally believed to have struck a convoy en route to Lebanon on January 30", although this has not been confirmed by the government of Israel. The convoy was reported to have been carrying sophisticated antiaircra...

…ing the Israeli Cyber Service, known as Unit 8200, with data concerning Arab communications in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. But providing Israel with such data, as well as providing it with lethal weaponry, was not some rogue operation. It was part of a policy that had been...

…its immediate neighbors. However, as we have seen, the threat in 1948 was more apparent than real. The northern Levant, Lebanon, was fundamentally disunited — far more interested in regional maritime trade and concerned about control from Damascus. It posed no real threat to Isra...

…r included the Sinai Peninsula. Along the coast, it never stretched much farther north than the Litani River in today's Lebanon. Apart from David's extreme extension (and fairly tenuous control) to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031859

…y out as scripted, it struck me as an exercise in self-delusion. There was also the matter of Arik’s vision of a “new” Lebanon under Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. Unlike the other generals in the kirya, I’d never actually met any of our “Lebanese Christian allies”. Yet a few wee...

…reatening Israel. He said “all issues of occupation” were on the table — the West Bank and Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon — and vowed to “let our fire eat half of Israel” in a future war. And we could not assume this was mere rhetoric. Iraq had an arsenal of Soviet-made bal...

… ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read the Lebanon inquiry,” I replied. “I saw what happened when a message isn’t delivered assertively. I’m not going to be in the position of making the same mistakes.”...

… the pullout seemed insufficiently prepared or thought out. The model, I believed, should have been our withdrawal from Lebanon — involving detailed prior consultation with, and political support from, the UN and key international allies. I also felt it was critically important t...