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The Rise and Fall of the Alliance

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Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon

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Born of the ambition ofone willful, reckless man, Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was anchored in delusion, propelled by deceit, and bound to end in calamity.1

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Notes and References

  1. Uzi Benziman, Sharon — An Israeli Caesar (London: Robson Books, 1987), p.184.

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  2. Ibid, p.263.

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  3. Ibid, p. 199.

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  4. Interview with Prime Minister Begin on Israel radio, 28 April 1981, as reproduced in Meron Medzini, Israel’s Foreign Relations, Selected Documents 1981–1982, Vol. 7 (Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1988).

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  7. Interview with Shafic al-Hout as cited in Kirsten E. Schulze, Israeli Security Policy in South Lebanon: An Analysis of the Forces and Perceptions Shaping the Policy-Making from 1976 to 1985, unpublished M.Phil thesis, Oxford University, 1992.

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  8. Frederic Hof, Galilee Divided (Boulder: Westview Press 1985), p.97.

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  11. Israel Landers, Did we fail by taking a false bet? (Tel Aviv: HaDoar, 1984), p.594.

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    Kirsten E. Schulze (Lecturer in International History)

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Schulze, K.E. (1998). The Rise and Fall of the Alliance. In: Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372474_8

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