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April 17, 2026

Israel and Lebanon Were Almost Allies

The pre-1948 era of bon voisinage.

The recent cease-fire, and the direct contacts between Israel and Lebanon that brought it about, raise the possibility that peace between the two countries might be on the horizon. Looking back to the period before 1948, Oren Kessler notes that the nascent Lebanese republic, still under French suzerainty, had good relations with the Zionist leadership:

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