Just released Reagan recording made in 1983 shows then-prime minister Menachem Begin balking at White House request to postpone IDF withdrawal from Lebanon.
By Yitzhak Benhorin
Ronald Reagan recorded then-prime minister Menachem Begin during a 1983 conversation on an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 1983, the New York Post revealed Sunday.
Author William Doyle received the tapes almost 20 years after he requested them under the Freedom of Information Act, the Post said.
In the tape, Begin can be heard evading a request by Reagan to delay the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, so that the Lebanese army could deploy in its stead. Continue Reading »
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