How Israel bungled the second Lebanon war

Middle East Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Inbar, Efraim ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Begin Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies

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2. Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv), July 24, 2006.
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