Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,3 (2022) 413-427
Keywords:
Sharon, Ariel Political and social views
;
Begin, Menachem, Philosophy
;
Operation Peace for Galilee, 1982-1985
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 20th century
;
Israel Politics and government
;
Decision making
Abstract:
Forty years after its occurrence, the 1982 Lebanon war remains academically understudied with the received wisdom about the conflict largely based on political and journalistic accounts. According to these accounts, the war was a political ploy by Defence Minister Ariel Sharon and Prime Minister Menachem Begin aimed at achieving far-reaching political goals rather than a defensive attempt to remove the terrorist threat to Israel’s northern areas. By placing the conflict within the context of Israeli history and the Arab-Israeli conflict, on the one hand, and the nature and characteristics of modern warfare, on the other, this article offers a more nuanced interpretation of the Lebanon War, showing that it was not fundamentally different from past military encounters.
DOI:
10.1080/13537121.2022.2066845
URL:
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