First Lebanon War still resonates in Israel 40 years later
While the war was not a military failure, it was a trauma: “This was the first time that a big part of the nation did not see the war as justified.”
ISRAEL AIR Force helicopter ferries supplies to an IDF encampment during Israel’s Peace for Galilee military campaign, June 1982, south of Lebanon’s Beirut-Damascus highway. (photo credit: Yoel Kantor/GPO via Getty Images)Updated: 
