‘Beaufort is in our hands!’ a government minister exulted, when Israel captured a Crusader fortress it once occupied for 18 years. For Joseph Cedar, who directed an Oscar-nominated film about the last days of the IDF outpost there, it is a cursed mountain – but for Netanyahu, it is an opportunity to rewrite history
“You can feel fresh mountain air here. Divine,” rhapsodized Menachem Begin to Ariel Sharon, his defense minister, as the then-prime minister stood beneath the newly conquered Beaufort fortress in southern Lebanon in June 1982.