Return to Beaufort: Israel’s symbolic conquest of a Lebanese Crusader fortress -
In 2007, the Israeli film Bufor was released. Named for the Crusader-era fortress of Beaufort, it chronicles the lives of Israeli soldiers posted in Lebanon at the fort in 2000 as Israel prepares to leave Lebanon.
The film came out after the Second Lebanon War and channeled some of the malaise about Lebanon at the time.
The 1990s Lebanon war was seen as a quagmire, and the 2006 war was initially judged a failure. Now the IDF is back at the Beaufort, but this time there is a sense of conquest. Israel has changed a lot in the last two decades.
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