SCOUTS OVER GALILEE

n the summer of 1982 events in the Levant – the region comprising Israel, Lebanon and Syria – took a turn for the worse. A botched assassination attempt in London on the Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov, a mission that some believed was orchestrated by the secret police of the Syrian dictator Hafez Al-Assad, inspired a backlash from Jerusalem as it found a justification for settling old scores. Since the end of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 the Israelis had held the Golan Heights overlooking the Syrian