Lebanon and War: two words that go hand in hand. As soon as one war ends, another one always seems to be around the corner. The 1840 war, the 1860 war, and then on to World War I, then there was the 1958 strife, until the major war of 1975 that lasted until 1990 during which there were Israeli wars on Lebanon including the 1978 and 1982 invasions, after that the Israeli aggressions of 1993, 1996, and finally in 2006.

The history of these wars has yet to be written in a scientific manner, away from exploitation and bias, with an identification of the reasons, the real motives, the results, and the aftermath these wars left in their paths. For that reason, the history of Lebanon became just points of view from the different groups (political or sectarian). Each group had their own favorable history, a history that works towards their goals and legitimizes their past deeds and future plans or aspirations.

“Lebanon Wars, Why?” is a book published by INMA (Social and Cultural Development Association in cooperation with Information International) as part of its Bee Series.  This book aims to chronicle the events that preceded the war in 1975, the stages that the war underwent, and the results it ended with: starting with the Ain El Rummaneh bus incident on Sunday, April 13th 1975, on to the traveling massacres across the nation and mainly Black Saturday, through the mountain wars, reaching the Ta’ef accord which represented the formal end of this war.

This book is a trial to re-write the history of Lebanon clearly and transparently in order to understand the past and to open a window into the future, leaving all the wars and miseries behind and looking into a promising Lebanon that overcomes all obstacles to become “A Nation of Peace and Love.”