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Israel and Lebanon have been in a technical state of war since 1948, and their common frontier is officially closed … Indeed, the lack of conflict along this border raises the suspicion among Arabs, both inside and outside Lebanon, that the state is not sincere in its opposition to Israel. Israelis themselves like to imagine that Lebanon is secretly benevolent to them.1
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Michael Hudson, The Precarious Republic (Colorado: Westview Press, 1985), p.98.
Aaron Klieman, ‘Zionist Diplomacy and Israeli Foreign Policy’, The Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 11, Spring 1979.
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Avi Shlaim, ‘Israeli Interference in Internal Arab Politics: The Case of Lebanon’, in Giacomo Luciani and Ghassan Salame (eds), The Politics of Arab Integration (London: Croom Helm, 1988), p. 232.
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Schulze, K.E. (1998). Introduction. In: Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372474_1
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