Volume 30, Number 14 · September 29, 1983
Why Lebanon?
By Charles Glass
Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and the War in Lebanon
by Jonathan C. Randal
Viking, 304 pp., $16.75
Abdel Mohsen Abu Maizer is one of the older independent members of the PLO executive committee. In his office in Damascus, which since the PLO left Beirut has been his exile in exile, he talked to me about Arafat, who was soon to be deported from Syria; about Syria and American Middle East policy; and about the Lebanese-Israeli accord. The conversation wandered naturally toward Lebanon. Abu Maizer asked, 'Do you really want to understand Lebanon?' He might as easily have asked, 'Do you really want to understand the Trinity?'
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