Any chance of you finally showing us this "reality", HBendor? LOL --- (walks of chuckling and shaking his head)
As i said, there were many causes - Bachir Gemayel ask israel many times to come to the aid of the christians, Israel didn't think that they can live next door to a big terrorist force, etc. No one is a saint here - not the lebanese people, not PLO, and not israel. They all had their agenda's.
DUH , right , according to Israeli propaganda , - no one might have been a "saint" but there was certainly many innocent Lebanese civilians , victims of Israeli aggression. ,,, .....
To wrap up this thread about Israel’s unjustified aggression in its 1982 invasion of Israel, I offer a summary of currently valid internet references for any students of the Middle East. The links to the references are in blue below: 1) Disproving the claims that the invasion was due to continued attacks from Lebanon by the PLO on northern Israel (Galilee): UNIFIL report for the period 16 June to 10 December 1981 (the first half of the ceasefire – Paragraphs 54 to 64): UNIFIL report for the period 11 December 1981 to 3 June 1982: Special UN report covering the period 4 to 10 June 1982: Israel’s Lebanon War by A. Mack: The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream by Colin Shindler: Israel's leading academic specialist on the Palestinians, Yehoshua Porath, pointed out that:
Try_This, I trust the above post satisfies your need for references. Regarding A. Mack, he is an author in the Australian Journal of International Affairs. I provided the reference. His article is entitled "Israel's Lebanon War" published March 2008. DOI:10.1080/10357718308444797 His full title is: Professor Andrew Mack, Director, Human Security Report Project, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, BC (Canada) He has been visiting Professor in Shanghai, Canberra, Auckland, Harvard, Urasa (Japan), Hawaii, and Berkely. Hope that helps. Sorry that Wiki did not list him; the editors are also human.