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One may speculate on whether Lebanon might not have avoided the Middle Eastern storm had its politicians been less irresponsible. It is possible that even a more homogeneous, better governed Lebanon — say, a largely Muslim Lebanon aligned with the other Arab countries, or a largely Christian Lebanon less fearful of political impotence, probably similarly aligned — could not have skirted the maelstrom simply because of its geographic situation.1
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Zeev Schiff and Ehud Ya’ari, Israel’s Lebanon War (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984), p.14.
Ibid.
Zeev Schiff, A History of the Israeli Army (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987),p.241.
Roger Owen, Essays on the Crisis in Lebanon (London: Ithaca Press, 1979), p.60.
Valerie Yorke, Domestic Politics and Regional Security (London: Gower for The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1988), pp. 130–1; see also
Richard Gabriel, Operation Peace for Galilee (New York: Hill & Wang, 1984) p.41.
Yair Evron, War and Intervention in Lebanon (London: Croom Helm, 1987), p.27.
Ibid, p.28.
Dan Horowitz, ‘Israel’s War in Lebanon: New Patterns of Strategic Thinking in Civil — Military Relations’, in Moshe Lissak (ed.), Israeli Society and its Defense Establishment (London: Frank Cass, 1984), p.88.
Ariel Levite, Offense and Defense in Israeli Military Doctrine (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989), p.28.
In addition to Dany Chamoun, an unmentioned Kataib official had contacted the Israeli embassy in Cyprus and confirmed Israel’s willingness to help. Joseph Abu Khalil, Qissat al-Mawarinah fi al-Harb (The Story of the Maronites in the War) (Beirut: Sharikat al-Matbu’at li al-Tausi’ah wa al-Nashr, 1990), p.45.
Shimon Shiffer, Kadoor Sheleg: Sodot Milhemet Levanon (Snowball: Secrets of the Lebanon War) (Tel Aviv: Edanim/Yediot Ahronot, 1984), p.22.
Rafael Eitan with Dov Goldstein, Sipur Shel Hayal (Story of a Soldier) (Tel Aviv: Maariv Library, 1985), pp.154–5.
Ronald Payne, Mossad: Israel’s most Secret Service (London: Bantam Press, 1990), p.109.
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Schulze, K.E. (1998). Disintegration of a State: The Maronites Turn towards Israel. In: Israel’s Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372474_6
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