Brief description: Itamar Rabinovich is Ettinger Professor of Contemporary Middle Easter History and Director of the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Review Quotes:
What distinguishes this book, written by an eminent Israeli scholar, is the high degree of factual accuracy and the remarkably objective analysis.... It deserves to be widely read for its clear perspective, cogent analysis, and for the new light it sheds on a crucial and eventful period in Lebanese history.
-- "Middle East Journal"