Kim Ghattas

And he sees in Bashir Jemayel the man who can help him implement his vision for this transformed Middle East.

with Israel at the center and a friendly Christian government in Beirut.

And so they don't just want a return to that time when the border between Lebanon was fairly reasonably quiet and there was no state of war between the two countries.

They want to have an actual official treaty.

And most importantly, Anita, they want the Christian phalange

and Bashir Jumail to help with the invasion and with their plans inside Beirut.

Israel will invade all the way up to Beirut, and Bashir and his men will do the dirty job within Beirut.

But it doesn't quite work out like that.

Ariel Sharon is looking for an excuse, any excuse.

And he travels to the U.S.

in May of 1982 to expose his plans to the Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, not going into all the details, but again saying, you know, we could do a lobotomy.

We'll clean it up.

You know, Bashir Jumail will maybe help us.

We're not going to go all the way up to Beirut.

It'll be quick, six weeks maximum.

Alexander Haig is quite infatuated by this idea.

He gives a yellow light, a wink.

Absolutely.

Bulldozers.

Bulldozers.