Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Lebanon War of 1982: How Our Leaders Saw it. (Not a parody but at times sounds like one).

Send us Fan MailSeveral top American leaders wrote their memoirs about this war.  Ordinarily we assume that our leaders, those giants who hold the top positions in the country and shape the destiny of the world,  are smarter than a student who had just completed my class on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  We assume they will have some basic knowledge of the region and will have enough sense to avoid obvious dangers.  I read several of those memoirs and typed up their discussions of what they did and why.   Those were circulated to my students for supplementary reading.   This is the type of thing that serious students taking a serious university-level course would learn.   With 144,000 lebanese killed during that period of terrible violence,  they would know enough not to make obvious blunders. Note that there are other podcasts on this war.  One is called The Lebanon War of 1982;  one is on Sabra and Chatilla massacres and the Kahan Commission Report.