Zionism and Southern Lebanon : a historical perspective on six decades of controversy.
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Authors
Hof, Frederic Charles
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Said, K.T.
Date of Issue
1979-06
Date
June 1979
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Current events in southern Lebanon are connected to a
territorial dispute that emerged over sixty years ago, when
leading Zionists claimed the region. That claim, which was
based upon the projected economic and security needs of the
Jewish national home in Palestine, did not prevail in the
course of post-World War I Anglo-French diplomacy. Since
then the Zionist leaders of Palestine and Israel have tried
to overcome the negative economic and security implications
of the boundary settlement. Yet Zionist access to southern
Lebanese water has been consistently blocked, and the frontier
has proven vulnerable to raids and rocket attacks by
hostile forces. It appears however that Israel has recently
converted the border region from a long-standing liability
into a current geopolitical asset. Recent Israeli policies
in southern Lebanon have (1) aggravated sectarian tensions
in Lebanon; (2) kept Syria tied down in a difficult stability
operation; and (3) made Israel's northern settlements
less vulnerable to land attacks by Palestinian commandos.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.