34 Days : Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in Lebanon

by Harel, Amos; Issacharoff, Avi

• ISBN13: 9780230604001
• ISBN10: 0230604005
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-29
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first comprehensive account of the progression of the Second Lebanese War, from the border abduction of an Israeli soldier on the morning of July 12, 2006, through the hasty decision for an aggressive response; the fateful discussions in the Cabinet and the senior Israeli command; to the heavy fighting in south Lebanon and the raging diplomatic battles in Paris, Washington and New York.The book answers the following questions: has Israel learned the right lessons from this failed military confrontation? What can Western countries learn from the IDF's failure against a fundamentalist Islamic terror organization?And what role did Iran and Syria play in this affair?34 Days delivers the first blow-by-blow account of the Lebanon war and new insights for the future of the region and its effects on the West.

Author Biography

Amos Harel is the Ha'aretz newspaper's military correspondent.  Avi Issacharoff is the newspaper's Arab affairs correspondent.  They collaborated previously on The Seventh War: The Real Story of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, a bestseller in Israel and France, and winner of the prestigious Tshetshik Prize from The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University as the best military study in Israel in 2004.  They live in Tel Aviv.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Abduction	p. 1
Barak Promises	p. 17
Denial	p. 39
A New Triumvirate	p. 59
Going to War	p. 75
The Ship Leaves Port	p. 91
The Soldiers Can Wait	p. 111
Bint J'Bayel, First Round	p. 119
To Us, a Tie Is the Same as Defeat	p. 145
Floundering	p. 165
The Cabinet	p. 191
Casualty Count in Saluki	p. 215
Not Defeat, Failure	p. 241
Epilogue: Until the Next War	p. 253
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 279
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