[Politics] Who was the IDF aiming at ?

[August]

Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II

No, I'm remembering Israel invading and occupying Lebanon and thus creating the Hezbollah.

But why did Israel invade Lebanon in 1982?

It was for the very same reason they invade it today, and that was to stop attacks from being mounted out of southern Lebanon against northern Israel. Except that they didn't call it Hezbollah back then. It was the PLO who moved in and took over the southern half of Lebanon after their defeat in the Jordanian Civil war and who had played the major role in starting the Lebanese civil war.

Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War

Some people here like to make out that the Israelis are the aggressors but history tells us differently.