Sourced narrative
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10 statements
01Evidence and context
In 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee sent Israeli troops into Lebanon to drive out the PLO. About 600 Israelis died.
Ariel Sharon went past the 25-mile limit, reached the outskirts of Beirut, and cut food, electricity, and water.
Abba Eban called those six weeks "a dark page in the moral history of the Jewish people."
Between September 16 and 18, 1982, militias from Lebanon killed as many as 2,300 civilians inside the Sabra and Shatila camps.
The Kahan Commission found that the Israeli army did not join the murders but could and should have stopped them, and that Sharon bore personal responsibility.
Yitzhak Shamir had opposed the Egyptian treaty. As prime minister he held onto Lebanon and continued the settlement line of the man he replaced.
Under Shamir, inflation hit 400 percent a year, with panic on the Tel Aviv exchange and a run on the banks.
Shimon Peres ended the occupation of southern Lebanon in 1985, leaving about 200 soldiers in the security zone.
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, became an implacable enemy of Israel in southern Lebanon.
In 1987 Palestinians in the occupied territories launched the intifada: store closings, tax strikes, barricades, and stones. Rabin answered with brutal force, to little effect.
Context
Ariel Sharon went past the 25-mile limit, reached the outskirts of Beirut, and cut food, electricity, and water.
Abba Eban called those six weeks "a dark page in the moral history of the Jewish people."
Between September 16 and 18, 1982, militias from Lebanon killed as many as 2,300 civilians inside the Sabra and Shatila camps.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Alan Dowty, Israel/Palestine (Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2005).
Israel and Palestine · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
- 10Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 470inspect
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