Regime Change: Israel in Lebanon 1982

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Israel is at war in Lebanon again, displacing a million Lebanese from their homes in the southern part of the country, its latest attempt to disarm Hezbollah. This new invasion continues a long pattern stretching back decades, where Israel tries and fails to create a Lebanon it can control. In 1982, that meant picking the country's president amid a destructive civil war. It almost worked — until an assassin's bomb killed Bashir Gemayel. Our guest is historian Ahron Bregman.
Ahron Bregman (kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-ahron-bregman-1) is a historian at King's College London and the author of Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947 (amazon.com/Israels-Wars-History-since-Warfare/…).
Recommended reading:
Lebanon's Negations (nybooks.com/online/2026/03/18/lebanons-negatio…) by Loubna El-Amine (New York Review)

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