Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process

Bys: Marius Deeb and Marius K. Deeb

Book Overview

Deeb traces in detail, based largely on sources in Arabic, Syria's long destructive involvement in Lebanon, and how the divisions with-in Lebanon have been manipulated by Syria to prevent rapprochement and peace. Syria's policy has been to maintain instability in order to increase its importance in the region through the threat of increasing turmoil combined with the promise, rarely realized, of "solving" the Lebanon problem if Syria's interests were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403967911
• ISBN13: 9781403967916
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The very truth

It is a controversial book where some might not agree at all with the author, but from a person who was there during the war a lot of what the author wrote is very accurate and the Lebanese people from all religions suffered from the Syrian dictator Hafez El-asad and his control over lebanon for three decades...luckily things are changing now for Lebanon and I hope all the region becomes really democratic including Syria...

Tells it how it is.

The first five words of the title say it all. The author gives a good picture of Syria's policies and regime, and their impact upon the long term occupation of it's smaller neighbor, Lebanon.