Kim Ghattas

The Palestinians are kind of already aware

that an invasion is in the works and it's going to be big.

And they have actually warned the Americans as well, because there are ties, back channels between the Americans and the Palestinians at the time, much to Israel's displeasure.

And

Believe it or not, there are conversations between the Palestinians and the Falange.

I mean, Arafat and Bashir Jumail are sworn enemies, but they actually talk to each other via back channels.

And in fact, at some point, Bashir Jumail sent a warning to a Palestinian official saying, you are at risk.

The Israelis are coming to assassinate you to try to save his life.

But that came too late.

And that's a side story.

So even

within war, there were certain rules of civility amongst the atrocious orgies of killing, which is really quite incredible.

But that invasion starts on the 6th with these tanks rumbling across the border, and there are some incredible footage, there's incredible descriptions, there's reporting, there's also testimonies of Israeli soldiers who, when they get past the 40 kilometers,

that Sharon had said the invasion would stop at are like, what are we doing?

Where is this going?

And of course you have, as I retell in my forthcoming book, the Americans still convinced that it's just going to stop at 40 kilometers.

in Washington.

That's their conviction.

And the American ambassador in Tel Aviv is relaying that message to Washington as well.

But the American ambassador in Beirut calls Washington and says, I can see from my residence Israeli tanks approaching the airport in Beirut.