352. Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7)

You were a kid, weren't you five years old in 1982, and your family lived on the front line. Kim, people have this image of Lebanon back then as being some kind of war zone, some kind of sort of flattened landscape, just shell pockmarked. What was it like? I mean, you know, you were there, you you knew it. describe what Lebanon was in 1982.

So I I sometimes I think that the Lebanon that we imagined from the 60s and the 70s is a myth. Sometimes I think it is real. But it was definitely before the Civil War erupted and it's known as as the Civil War. I don't call it that and I'll explain in a moment. I call it the Lebanese War in my next uh book which is coming out later this year.

In the 60s and 70s and late 50s, you know, Lebanon was this cosmopolitan place. The culture of the Levant exemplified at its best in um in Lebanon. You know, there was trade and um and a casino and the international festival of Balbek with international singers and performers and musicians and dancers, you know, ballet and, you know, others all coming to to there. Best food in the Middle East, still. That is still true of of of Lebanon.

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