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3-10 April 2007 The Summer War in Lebanon: A Tragedy of Errors
Hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless during the wave of bombings in Lebanon and rocket attacks on Northern Israel last year. The war started with a border incursion by Hezbollah who killed 8 Israeli soldiers and snatched two more, prompting a massive Israeli response. The crisis caught the international community off guard and everyone became caught up in its mad momentum. Recriminations began almost immediately.
Edward Stourton has spent the last six months talking to the key players. He hears from the leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut and from the decision-makers in Jerusalem; he meets the diplomats from the United Nations and the people who were trying to broker a peace. What emerges is an unedifying tale, a tragedy of errors from the moment Hezbollah crossed the border with Israel to the agreement of Resolution 1701 in New York.
Was there an Israeli-American conspiracy and did America deliberately give Israel the diplomatic space to continue a war? “What’s wrong with that?” says John Bolton, then US Ambassador to the UN. “I do not recall anybody exercising or asking us to exercise caution.” - Danny Ayalon, former Israeli Ambassador in Washington.
And the old allegiances don’t seem to have applied. Several of the key players interviewed claim that many Arab leaders wanted Israel to ‘finish the job’: “There were many not – how should I put it – resistant to the thought that the Israelis should thoroughly defeat Hezbollah, who . . . increasingly by Arab states were seen as an Iranian proxy.” Terje Roed Larsen, UN Special Envoy.
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I think Pakistani Media was among the few reporting on the true aspect of this conflict, something that the lebanese thanked Pakistan for aswell.
3-10 April 2007 The Summer War in Lebanon: A Tragedy of Errors
Hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands were made homeless during the wave of bombings in Lebanon and rocket attacks on Northern Israel last year. The war started with a border incursion by Hezbollah who killed 8 Israeli soldiers and snatched two more, prompting a massive Israeli response. The crisis caught the international community off guard and everyone became caught up in its mad momentum. Recriminations began almost immediately.
Edward Stourton has spent the last six months talking to the key players. He hears from the leaders of Hezbollah in Beirut and from the decision-makers in Jerusalem; he meets the diplomats from the United Nations and the people who were trying to broker a peace. What emerges is an unedifying tale, a tragedy of errors from the moment Hezbollah crossed the border with Israel to the agreement of Resolution 1701 in New York.
Was there an Israeli-American conspiracy and did America deliberately give Israel the diplomatic space to continue a war? “What’s wrong with that?” says John Bolton, then US Ambassador to the UN. “I do not recall anybody exercising or asking us to exercise caution.” - Danny Ayalon, former Israeli Ambassador in Washington.
And the old allegiances don’t seem to have applied. Several of the key players interviewed claim that many Arab leaders wanted Israel to ‘finish the job’: “There were many not – how should I put it – resistant to the thought that the Israelis should thoroughly defeat Hezbollah, who . . . increasingly by Arab states were seen as an Iranian proxy.” Terje Roed Larsen, UN Special Envoy.
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I think Pakistani Media was among the few reporting on the true aspect of this conflict, something that the lebanese thanked Pakistan for aswell.
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