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…alestinian attacks, as well as Syrian President Hafez al- Assad’s efforts to re-equip his air force after his losses in Lebanon. So I came to the interview prepared. I brought audio tapes of the hijackers, and a large photograph of the MiG-25s which the Syrians were seeking to ac...

… well. That weight felt even heavier because the tragedy occurred only hours before our own force’s involvement in the Lebanon War was over. It was not, however, the end of the war. The cease-fire held only intermittently in the rest of Lebanon, barely at all in some areas. Fre...

…l objectives and, under cover of his SAM batteries on the other side of the Suez Canal, advance into the Sinai. In the Lebanon war, the inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major risks. But individual ministers testified that...

…adar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly uncomfortable thorn in Israel’s side. I was head of...

and Lebanon — and vowed to “let our fire eat half of Israel” in a future

000 fighters in Lebanon and hundreds of rockets capable of reaching

especially compared with Iraq and Lebanon.

called the South Lebanon Army. This would rule out any hope of

the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon was not just targeting Israeli

our frank exchanges on Lebanon seemed to

… well. That weight felt even heavier because the tragedy occurred only hours before our own force’s involvement in the Lebanon War was over. It was not, however, the end of the war. The cease-fire held only intermittently in the rest of Lebanon, barely at all in some areas. Fre...

…ecurity Studies from Georgetown University and has worked at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center. Article 2. Now Lebanon What Saudi-Iran talks could mean for Lebanon and the region Alex Rowell May 16, 2014 -- In a potentially momentous surprise move that could herald an...

…ained attack since the cease-fire in 1994. It was pretty obvious that, like Hamas, the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon was not just targeting Israeli civilians, but Oslo, and Peres’s chances of winning the election. The last thing Shimon wanted was for tens of thousands...

… had been called into question. Yet the most widely reported promise was that I would pull out all Israeli troops from Lebanon within a year. I realized that even among those who knew that made sense, voices would be raised both in the Knesset and the Aivra against withdrawing....

…s simultaneously committed to the decrees of Iranian clerics, the Lebanese state, its sectarian Shiite community within Lebanon, and fellow Shiites abroad. The consequences of these competing ideological drivers was clear in July 2006, when Hezbollah dragged Israel and Lebanon i...