1. Inside the Kaleidoscope: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon Claire Walsh

2. Operation Peace for Galilee “broader aims of the war were to create a new political order in Lebanon, to establish Israeli hegemony in the Levant, and to pave the way to the absorption of the West Bank in line with the Likud's nationalistic ideology of Greater Israel”

3. Defeat PLO military infrastructure Help Bashir Gemayel gain power Defeat the Syrian forces “It was not the much-vaunted Israeli aspiration to peaceful coexistence with the Arabs that inspired this war but Sharon's relentless drive to assert Israeli hegemony over the entire region” Main Goals

4. Israel used Propaganda to prove threat of PLO –Charged the Soviet Union with aiding and abetting the PLO From an Israeli newspaper

5. PLO Tanks in Beirut