The Israeli War Machine in Lebanon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12017138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clifford A Wright (Clifford A. Wright, formerly Verification Associate of the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution, is presently Staff Fellow at the Institute of Arab Studies in Belmont, Massachusetts., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 38-53 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Palestine Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-919X • E-ISSN: 1533-8614 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2536413 |
| OpenAlex | W2057316721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The swell and wake of war will always beckon military analysts to distill the lessons of combat. The Palestine-Israel War of 1982 is no exception, but for a number of reasons the lessons are not yet clear. For one, temporal proximity to a still simmering conflict makes it difficult to obtain accurate information concerning many aspects of the conduct of the war. Secondly, disinformation, a common mode of propaganda in wartime, was pervasive. For example, the Israelis described their anabasis as Peace for Galilee, and characterized the enemy as barbaric and cowardly, incompetent and very powerful. The manifestation of these phenomena was exemplified by the Israeli government's public display of captured weaponryl and the denial to Palestinian military personnel of Prisoner-of-War status under the articles of the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory. Furthermore, Israeli casualties were often translated into equivalents of American casualties. For example, when Israeli casualties were 320 killed we were informed that this was the equivalent of several thousand American dead. A similar equivalency was not provided for Palestinian casualties. Finally, a phenomenon common in the aftermath of the October 1973 war has reappeared: the loser is declaring or at least enjoying a kind of
Adversary · Ancient history · Computer security · Denial · Disinformation · Government (linguistics · Palestine · Political science · Spanish Civil War · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 1983 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |