War All the Time: Israel vs. Palestine, 1948-82 (Bonus Episode)

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:03) **Introduction and Episode Scope** - Host Darrell Cooper frames this as an addendum to his earlier series on early Zionism, covering 1948 to the 1982 Lebanon War with a focus on the escalation of savagery.
• 2 (09:38) **1956: Moshe Dayan's "Generation of Settlement" Speech** - At a funeral for a lieutenant killed and mutilated by Palestinian militants, Dayan articulates the core Israeli strategic dilemma: there can be no forgiveness from the refugees, so the only path is ruthless deterrence.
• 3 (18:58) **The Book Bomb and Israeli Clandestine Operations** - The Israelis assassinate Egyptian intelligence chief Mustafa Hafez with a booby-trapped book, demonstrating their willingness to use creative, targeted violence against high-value enemies.
• 4 (25:11) **Ariel Sharon and Unit 101: The Cowboys of the IDF** - David Ben-Gurion forms a new special operations unit under the 25-year-old Ariel Sharon, which functions as a targeted assassination squad that often operates on its own initiative.
• 5 (49:55) **The Lavon Affair and the Suez Crisis (1956)** - Israeli military intelligence recruits Egyptian Jews to bomb British and American targets in a false flag operation to turn the West against Egypt, while Israel later allies with France and Britain to invade Egypt over the Suez Canal.
• 6 (66:22) **The Birth of the PLO and the Rise of Fatah** - Nasser creates the PLO as an Egyptian proxy, but Yasser Arafat and his allies form the rival Fatah movement, which believes only Palestinians can liberate themselves through armed revolutionary struggle.
• 7 (92:15) **Mossad's Disasters and the Hunt for Nazi War Criminals** - In 1965, the Mossad suffers a series of high-profile failures, including the capture and torture of spy Eli Cohen and a botched assassination in Uruguay, revealing the agency's fallibility.

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