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of thousands of dead, refugees and a bloody history. Clashes, wars and
massacres reflect much of what civilians suffered throughout the Israeli
invasion.
After the 1950s, the Israeli forces commanded by radical Zionist
leaders made several interventions in the neighboring country, Lebanon.

These leaders ignited conflicts between several groups within Lebanon
and these groups, becoming involved in a civil war, maintained links
with, and secured support from, Israel. These clashes made the balance of
power in Lebanon highly fragile, turning it into a country open to
invasion. These radical Zionist leaders provoked the communities
inhabiting Lebanon, namely, the Maronites, Christians, Greek Orthodox
Christians, Shi'a Muslims, Sunnis and the Druze, and gradually reaped
the fruits of her "divide and rule" policy.
A strategy that Israel had planned for twenty-eight years was
concluded with the actual invasion of Lebanon in 1982. The civil war
divided Beirut into regions for each minority group. It is interesting that
each minority received support and arms from radical Zionist leaders. In
particular, the Phalangists, who seized power, had very strong ties with
these circles.
The civil war in Lebanon seemingly broke out because the Palestinians
who had been forced from Jordan by King Hussein were settled in
Lebanon. Christians, indoctrinated by radical Zionist leaders about the
need to expel Palestinians from Lebanon, waged an all-out war to expel
the Palestinians. Christians and Muslims were seemingly parties to this
war, yet each of them were also torn apart internally. During the war,
Israel, ruled by radical Zionist leaders ,started to violate the Lebanese
border. Meanwhile, Lebanon's security deteriorated significantly with the
US- and Israeli-backed attack of Syria, which appeared to be a Muslim
country, against Lebanon.
The Phalange Party's establishment of its political power through the
support of Israel was the beginning of a bloody war that was to devastate
Beirut. Palestinians and Muslim Lebanese were subject to great pressure.
The invasion of 1978 ultimately led to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in