Goodbye Lebanon, Israel's First Defeat
تاريخ النشر: 09/10/2013
الناشر: منشورات الرمال
نبذة الناشر:Odd Karsten Tveit has worked as the correspondant for Norwegian Broadcasting corporation (NRK) in the Middle East since 1978. He has written several acdaimed books about Israel and Lebanon.
when the American Embassy in Beirut was blown up on Monday, April 18, 1983, odd Karsten Tveit barely avoided being killed. ...He was standing 300 meters away when the suicide bomber drove his vehicle full of explosives toward the entrance of the embassy. This war neither the first nor last time Tveit was at the front lines during his more than 30 years of activity in Lebanon as the Norweigian Broadcasting corporations Middle East correspondant during three four –year periods, as a major un the UN peacekeeping force, and as an author.
In Goodbye Lebanon Tveit deals with a series of dramatic periods in Lebanon recent history and weaves them together. His man emphasis is on developments following the Israeli occupation of half of Lebanon in 1982, up to the withdrawal in May 2000- a chaos reminiscent of the American withdrawal from Veitnam 25 years earlier. The Lebanese resistance ,movement, led by Hizbullah, had won. إقرأ المزيد