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Think Before You Act: On the IDF Withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000

Military and Strategic Affairs, Volume 3, No. 3, December 2011

Giora Eiland

This article presents several facts and conclusions stemming from the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. It also discusses two other events that occurred after the withdrawal: the Second Lebanon War in 2006, and a relatively small yet important event, the departure of Syrian forces from Lebanon in 2005. All these events are connected to one another.

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Publication Series Military and Strategic Affairs

TopicsMilitary and Strategic Affairs Syria

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