The First Lebanon War 1992-1996

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Primary Sources

Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, (2004)

Ehud Barak, My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace (2018)

Warren Christopher, Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir, (2001)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi: My Story, (2022)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga, (1999)

Bill Clinton, My Life, (2004)

Franklin Van Kappen, “United Nations Security Council Document S/1996/337,” United Nations, (May 1, 1996)

Franklin Van Kappen, “Addendum to the report of the Secretary-General's Military Adviser concerning the Qana shelling,” United Nations, (May 7, 1996)

Jacques Chirac, My Life in Politics, (2012)

Secondary Sources

Raphael D. Marcus, Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire, (2024)

Bassel F. Salloukh, Rabie Barakat, Jinan S. Al-Habbal, Lara W. Khattab, Shoghig Mikaelian, The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon, (2015)

A.J. Abraham, Lebanon in Modern Times, (2008)

Marwan Iskandar, Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon, (2006)

Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, (2007)

Nicholas Blanford, Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel, (2011)

Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History, (2008)

John McHugo, Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years, (2014)

Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, (2018)

Ahron Bregman, Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947 (2016)

Matthew Levitt, Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God, (2015)

Robert Baer, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, (2008)

Howard Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time: Third Edition, Revised and Expanded, (2007)

Daniel Gordis, Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, (2016)

Articles

Daniel Pipes, Patrick Clawson, “Ambitious Iran, Troubled Neighbors,” Foreign Affairs, (February 1, 1993)

Capt. David R. Williams, “A Most Painful LessonThe 1996 Shelling of Qana, why it Matters today,” U.S. ARMY, (April 22, 2016)

Footnotes

[1] Marcus, ch. 1

[2] Ross, p. 90-2

[3] Barak, p. 257-9

[4] Christopher, p. 194-6

[5] Netanyahu, p. 230, 237

[6] Salloukh, p. 23-4

[7] Abraham, p. 160-1, Salloukh, p. 26-7

[8] Salloukh, p. 25-6, Iskandar, p. 77

[9] Abraham, p. 161-3

[10] Nasr, p. 115

[11] Blanford, ch. 3, Iskandar, p. 62, 73-5

[12] Marcus, ch. 1, Blanford, ch. 3

[13] Marcus, ch. 1

[14] Gilbert, p. 557-8, Barak, p. 253-5

[15] Marcus, ch. 6

[16] Abraham, p. 163-4

[17] Boutros-Ghali, p. 193-9, Christopher, 194-6, Ross, p. 94-6

[18] Christopher, 197-9, 218-20, McHugo, 172-3

[19] Barack, p. 253-5

[20] Marcus, ch. 2, ch. 6

[21] Blanford, ch. 3

[22] Marcus, ch. 6

[23] Barak, p. 255-6, Marcus, ch. 2

[24] Christopher, p. 218-20

[25] Ross, p. 109-10

[26] Blanford, ch. 3, Bregman, p. 272

[27] Marcus, ch. 6, Barak, p. 255-6

[28] Marcus, ch. 6

[29] Ross, p. 99, 110-4

[30] Netanyahu, p. 233-7

[31] Abraham, p. 164-5, Blanford, ch. 3

[32] Clinton, p. 574-5, Ross, p. 145-8

[33] Clinton, p. 609-10, 625

[34] Pipes & Clawson, Levitt, p. 63-8, Baer, p. 21-2

[35] Levitt, p. 117-9, 121-4

[36] Bergman, p. 404-8, Blanford, ch. 3

[37] Levitt, p. 78-80

[38] Levitt, p. 75-6

[39] Blanford, ch. 3, Levitt, p. 127, Clinton, p. 609-10

[40] Bergman, 404-8

[41] Marcus, ch. 2

[42] Blanford, ch. 3

[43] Blanford, ch. 3

[44] Bergman, 424-8

[45] Netanyahu, p. 233-7, 240-2

[46] Blanford, ch. 3

[47] Abraham, p. 165-6, Ross, p. 230-3

[48] Blanford, ch. 3

[49] Ross, p. 246-9, Baer, p. 75, Abraham, 165-6

[50] Abraham, p. 165-6, Ross, p. 249-51, Sachar, p. 1010-2, Blanford, ch. 3

[51] Marcus, ch. 6, Blanford, ch. 3, Ross, p. 249-51

[52] Ross, p. 249-51, Blanford, ch. 4

[53] Ross, p. 249-51, Blanford, ch. 4

[54] Blanford, ch. 4

[55] Marcus, ch. 6, Kappen, May 1, Blanford, ch. 4

[56] Williams, Kappen, May 1, Kappen, May 7

[57] Chirac, p. 181-6, Ross, p. 249-51, Blanford, ch. 4

[58] Ross, p. 251-5

[59] Ross, p. 251-5, Blanford, ch. 4

[60] Marcus, ch. 6

[61] Blanford, ch. 3

[62] Blanford, ch. 4, Ross, p. 251-5, Gordis, A Concise, p. 374-6, Chirac, p. 181-6

[63] Barak, p. 296, Netanyahu, p. 246-8, 253

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