1982

NOVA AFTER DARK — JUNE 6, 1982 Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to the show. I’m your host, Nova, and boy, do we have a historical deep dive for you tonight that’ll make you grateful you were born in an era with Netflix instead of geopolitics. So we’re talking about June 6th, 1982 — the day Israel’s Defense Minister Ariel Sharon launched Operation Peace for the Galilee, which, let me tell you, is the most ironically named military operation since Hitler called his invasion of Poland “Operation White.” You know what Operation Peace for the Galilee actually was? An invasion of Lebanon. A full-scale invasion. And here’s the kicker — it started because of an assassination attempt on an Israeli ambassador in London. Not a successful assassination. An attempt. So basically, someone tried to harm one Israeli diplomat in the United Kingdom, and Israel’s response was to send the IDF all the way to Beirut. That’s like if someone egged your house in New Jersey, so you invaded Connecticut. And Pennsylvania. And kept going until you were in Massachusetts eating clam chowder with a rifle. ...