Who other than the United States ignited the Lebanese war and fueled it all along? What is the secret behind Washington's insistence that the Lebanese President appoint an advisor for secret deliberations, away from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? Through thousands of still-classified documents from American archives, US State Department records, and other Arab and foreign sources, this book unveils the fragile American game, its manipulation of all parties, and how it left them all equally and bitterly disappointed with its stances. It neither provided support to the Christian militias, nor sent ships to save the Christians, nor armed the Lebanese army, nor saved the Syrian regime from the Soviet Union's grip, nor recognized the rights of the Palestinians. The book clarifies the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon, and details the changes in foreign policy towards the Middle East. Many intervened in the Lebanese Civil War, through media, finance, and military means. The Lebanese were divided between supporters of the Palestinians and their cause, and opponents of their very presence on Lebanese soil. Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, and the Arab League intervened. Syria intervened with its military and border weight, sometimes on one side and sometimes on the other. The Zionist entity intervened with weapons and agents. The United States, the Soviet Union, and France intervened. It was as if everyone intervened to fuel the conflict, not to extinguish it, each according to their own agenda and share of the pie. What about the daring commando operations, and the Zionist responses with bombings and assassinations of prominent Palestinian figures? What infighting took place in the streets of Beirut among brothers, and between them and their cousins, leaving the stranger untouched? What did Charles Helou do? How was Suleiman Frangieh Sr. elected? What did they both bet on? And what options did they leave for Elias Sarkis? This book chronicles the most important and difficult period in the history of Lebanon and the Middle East following the 1967 war and the subsequent wars and conspiracies that paved the way for what we witness today!

• Publishing House: Sharikat Al Matbouat Lil Tawzie Wa Al Nashr
• Author: James Stocker
• ISBN: 9789953889832
• Number of Pages: 412
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Cover Type: Paperback