@pemile
Ehud Yaari, mais c’est toi qui devait le trouver. L’IA l’a fait.

Thought for 35s

Nice — I can help. A few likely people fit your description ; see short bios below and tell me which one (if any) matches the person you’re thinking of.

Candidates

1. Itamar Rabinovich — Israeli historian and diplomat who wrote The War for Lebanon, 1970–1985 and has been a distinguished fellow/associate of American think-tanks (Brookings, Israel Institute in Washington). He’s a professional historian with substantial work on Lebanon. Wikipedia+1

2. Ehud Yaari — Israeli journalist and Middle East commentator who has been a Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy ; co-author (with Ze’ev Schiff) of Israel’s Lebanon War and long-time reporter on Lebanon. (More journalistic than academic/historical, but widely cited on Lebanon.) The Washington Institute+1

3. Ze’ev (Zeev) Schiff — Israeli journalist and military correspondent, co-author with Ehud Yaari of Israel’s Lebanon War ; served as a Lafer fellow / outside author for The Washington Institute and was associated with Carnegie Endowment. Wikipedia+1

If none of these match, give me any extra detail you remember (approximate years, whether they were more academic or a newspaper correspondent, a book title, or the think-tank name) and I’ll keep digging.