Israel and Lebanon: Soul Searching

In: The world today, Band 62, Heft 10, S. 12-13

Abstract

As thousands of blue-helmeted peacekeepers arrive in south Lebanon & take positions to separate Israel & Hizbollah, in the hope of preventing another round of hostilities between the two sworn enemies, it seems the right moment for soul searching. How did a border skirmish in which two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped & eight others killed, turn into a war which ended with the death of more than 1,700 people & so much devastation on both sides? Adapted from the source document.