ABSTRACT
Address by Prime Minister Begin at the National Defense College, 8 August 1982. [. . .] Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of
an alternative. The terrorists did not threaten the existence of the State of Israel; they “only” threatened the lives of Israel’s citizens and members of the Jewish people. There are those who find fault with the second part of that sentence. If there was no danger to the existence of the state, why did you go to war?
