Acknowledgements

 

 

 

 

Among those who helped me with this book, I would particularly like to thank the Institute for Palestine Studies, its staff and library, in Beirut, and two other excellent institutions: the London-based Middle East Mirror, source of many of the newspaper quotations in Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew, and the Middle East Reporter, Beirut. In addition I owe a very special debt to Karsten Tveit, and Peter Scott-Hansen, who translated Tveit’s book Nederlag: Israel’s Krig i Libanon, from the Norwegian on my behalf.