Good Fence
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The Good Fence (
Background
From the 1948
History
The beginning of the Good Fence coincides with the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon in 1976 and Israeli support for the predominantly-Maronite militias in southern Lebanon in their battle with the PLO. From 1977, Israel allowed the Maronites and their allies to find employment in Israel and provided assistance in exporting their goods through the Israeli port city of Haifa. The main border crossing through which goods and workers crossed was the Fatima Gate crossing near Metula. This provided essential economic stability to the administration of the Free Lebanon State and the later South Lebanon security belt administration.
Israel states that before 2000, approximately one-third of the ophthalmology patients at
The Good Fence ceased to exist with Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 and disintegration of the South Lebanon security belt administration and the SLA militia.
See also
- Arab states–Israeli alliance against Iran
References
- ^ "Israel: The Good Fence Policy". 16 August 1976. Archived from the original on February 20, 2011 – via www.time.com.
- ISBN 1560254424.
- ^ admin (27 April 2007). "Doctor at Western Galilee Hospital recalls war's hectic days – j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California".
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