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I am convinced that not one Palestinian leader still seriously believes that they will ever return to Palestine. Rather, they now believe that Lebanon will make a suitable Palestinian country. Do they want a secular state? They have no notion oj a secular state; they only know that this demand sounds good to Western ears. Have they read the Old Testament? Do they know what Jerusalem means to the Jews, what power this millenial dream has exercised? No.for otherwise they would not be spouting this nonsense about a secular state. Does any other Arab state want the Palestinians? No. They keep them under strict surveillance or throw them out. Only stupid Lebanon allowed itself to be overwhelmed by the Palestinians.1
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Ian Lustick, ‘Israel’s Arab Minority and the Begin Era’, in Robert Freed-man (ed.), Israel in the Begin Era (New York: Praeger, 1982), p.126.
Ehud Sprinzak, The Ascendance of Israel’s Radical Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 16.
Yoram Peri, ‘Coexistence or Hegemony? Shifts in the Israeli Security concept’, in Dan Caspi, Abraham Diskin and Emanuel Gutman (eds), The Roots of Begin’s Success: The 1981 Israeli Elections (London: Croom Helm, 1984), p.208.
Ibid, p.204.
Ibid, p.191.
Excerpts from an interview with Chief-of-Staff Eitan on IDF radio, 8 September 1979, as reproduced in Meron Medzini, Israel’s Foreign Relations, Documents 1979–1980 (Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1984), pp. 123–7.
Ibid.
Avraham Tamir, A Soldier in Search of Peace (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p.116.
Beate Hamizrahi, The Emergence of the South Lebanon Security Belt (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988), p.49.
For a detailed discussion of Canaanite philosophy see Aharon Amir, Levanon: Eretz, Am, Milchama (Lebanon: Country, People, War) (Tel Aviv: Hadar, 1979).
Naomi Weinberger, Syrian intervention in Lebanon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 18.
Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, Turmoil — The Druzes, Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli conflict, (London: Quartet Books, 1993), p. 183. See also Schiff and Ya’ari, Israel’s Lebanon War, p.24. See also Hanf, Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon, p.333.
Excerpts from an interview with PM Begin on IDF radio, 20 June 1980, as reproduced in Meron Medzini, Israel’s Foreign Relations, Selected Documents, 1979–1980, p.287.
Avner Yaniv, Dilemmas of Security: Politics, Strategy and the Israeli Experience in Lebanon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p.78.
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Schulze, K.E. (1998). The Revival of the Minority-Alliance. In: Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372474_7
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