Abstract
Building on the recent declassification of several documents in the United States, this analysis examines the policies of the Carter administration and their effects on the conflict in southern Lebanon. During President Jimmy Carter’s efforts to mediate a peace process between Israel and Egypt, Israeli military retaliation against the PLO threatened a conflagration between Israel, Syria and the Palestinians on Lebanese soil. For Carter, the troubles in southern Lebanon were a nuisance to his plans for an Egyptian-Israeli settlement. Thus, he failed to devote sufficient attention to the conflict but rather subordinated it to the need to keep Israelis and Egyptians at the negotiating table.
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