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December 23, 2025

The Current Slanders against Israel Were Born in Lebanon, Over Four Decades Ago

“J’Accuse,” 1982.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), rather than Hizballah, that was using southern Lebanon as a base of operations to rain rockets on Israeli communities, conduct cross-border attacks, and plan assassinations of Israelis in Europe. In 1982, the IDF responded by launching the First Lebanon War. 

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