How Ariel Sharon defied and deceived Israel's government to expand war in Lebanon - a former IDF Major shares his Lebanon War stories
►How did Israel get entangled in Lebanon?
►What was Israel's original plan for the 1982 Lebanon War and how did it change?
►How did Ariel Sharon trick the Israeli government into a military confrontation with the Syrians in Lebanon? ►Dr. Bregman's eyewitness account of the Lebanon War, including a dinner with Lebanon's president. 🚩About my guest:
Dr. Ahron Bregman is a senior teaching fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Dr. Bregman served in the Israeli army for six years, and took part in the 1982 Lebanon War and reached the rank of Major. He left the IDF after the war to work at the Knesset as a parliamentary assistant.
He is the author and editor of many books. In this interview, we discuss Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories.
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Image attribution:
This episode's cover art image is of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon in Lebanon during the Galilee Peace Operation. By IDF Spokesperson's Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=119476457.
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1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
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The Desert | The Grand Score
The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com
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The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon. Musicpromoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The volume and lengths of this piece have been modified.