4
Shared Docs
4
Same-Page
4 / 4
Mentions
town called Jobb Janine. It was still some distance from the Damascus road, but an important way-station: Syrian headquarters on the western side of the Bekaa Valley. The eastern part of our pincer, the 252" 198 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011669 Division, advanced up the Bekaa, alongside the Syrian border, toward the town
This wasn’t mere supposition on my part. In February 1982, we ran a simulation exercise in the kirya based on Plan B. The result: Little Pines became Big Pines. A clash with the Syrians proved inevitable, if only because one target even under Little Pines was the main road between Beirut and Damascus. It lay
ound invasion as in 1982. Most of the attacks would be from the air, in two stages. The first would target Hizbollah, both in southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley further north, near the border with 251 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011722 Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of
had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011672 another Israeli unit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon’s c
town called Jobb Janine. It was still some distance from the Damascus road, but an important way-station: Syrian headquarters on the western side of the Bekaa Valley. The eastern part of our pincer, the 252"d 198 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028046 Division, advanced up the Bekaa, alongside the Syrian border, toward the town
This wasn't mere supposition on my part. In February 1982, we ran a simulation exercise in the kirya based on Plan B. The result: Little Pines became Big Pines. A clash with the Syrians proved inevitable, if only because one target even under Little Pines was the main road between Beirut and Damascus. It lay
ound invasion as in 1982. Most of the attacks would be from the air, in two stages. The first would target Hizbollah, both in southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa Valley further north, near the border with 251 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028099 Syria. We could halt at that stage, in the unlikely event Hizbollah showed signs of d
had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the kirya, predicting how Arik's ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE _OVERSIGHT_028049 another Israeli unit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon's c
Entities connected to both the Bekaa Valley and Big Pines

Saddam Hussein
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Baghdad
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Beirut
LOCATION
Yitzhak Rabin
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Shimon Peres
PERSON
Irgun
ORGANIZATIONYitzhik Mordechai
PERSON
Motta Gur
PERSON
Philip Habib
PERSONRaful
PERSON
Habib
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Karameh
LOCATION
the Jordan River
LOCATION
Betar
ORGANIZATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION