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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 January 23, 1976
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Israelis are Wary of Lebanese Situation;
Crisis Could Lead to New Border Threat
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grounded all of its aircraft
and has dispersed them for
safety at various airports
away from the capital.
The latest cease fire an-
nounced by Lebanese Presi-
dent Franjieh Wednesday
night appears to be a
marked triumph scheduled
to have a role in the revised
Lebanese government struc-
ture.
Meanwhile, the Israeli
chief of staff, Gen. Morde-
chai Gur, reiterated Israel's
warning to Syria against
direct intervention in the
Lebanese conflict. Address-
ing a dinner of the United
Israel Appeal-Keren Haye-
sod mission in Jerusalem
Tuesday, Gen. Gur said Is-
rael was capable of checking
any Syrian intervention in
Lebanon and reminded the
Damascus regime of the
debacle they suffered in
1970 when they attempted
to intervene in Jordan's war
against the Palestinian ter-
rorists. At that time the
concentration of Israeli
forces on the northern bor-
der was credited with halt-
ing the Syrian move.
Gen. Gur said that if
Syria intervened directly in
Lebanon, Israel would be
forced to review its policy.
According to Israeli cir-
cles, a statement by the
Lebanese Interior Minister
Camille Chamoun that
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15,000 Syrian troops with
armor and self-propelled
guns have entered Lebanon
was a gross exaggeration.
Israeli officials believe the
Syrians are not about to in-
tervene directly in Lebanon
and expose their army on
two fronts—the internal
one and the Israeli front.
The Syrians have been sup-
plying arms and ammuni-
tion to the Moslems and Pa-
lestinians, however.
Israel has warned that it
would take swift action if
the Syrian army inter-
vened in Lebanon. The
United States has warned
all outsiders—specifically
Israel and Syria—to stay
out of Lebanon's internal
conflict.
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres said that it was not
possible to predict Syria's
moves and that Israel would
take defensive action if Syr-
ian troops invade Lebanon.
On the other hand, Peres
said that changes inside
Lebanon, whether they are
merely constitutional or re-
sult in partitioning that tiny
country between its warring
Christian and Moslem citi-
zens, would not be cause for
Israeli intervention.
President Hafez Assad, of
Syria, has been quoted as
saying that the partition of
Lebanon would force Syria
to intervene, even if it meant
war with Israel.
Lebanese villagers along
the Israeli border have told
Israelis that the southern
region of their country has
been virtually taken over by
terrorists while the civil war
between Moslems and
Christians rages in the
north.
The central government
in Beirut seems to have
lost all control—or inter-
est—in the southern re-
gion, they said. Police,
gendarmerie and other
government officials in the
region have not been paid
for months and the local
judicial system has broken
down.
They said that terrorists
have taken over some Le-
banese army positions that
were abandoned when the
troops were transferred to
the area of fighting around
Beirut.
The description of condi-
tions in southern Lebanon
came from Lebanese farm-
ers who tend their crops
close to the Israeli border
near Metullah. They ex-
pressed fear that the civil
war might spread to the
south endangering the small
Maronite Christian commu-
nity there which has taken
refuge in Christian-domi-
nated villages.
Other sources, mainly UN
observers and clergy who
have reached Israel via the
Rosh Hanikra border post
on the coast, reported that
the road from Beirut to the
Israeli border was unsafe
for travel. They reported
explosions and automatic
fire along the highway.
The UN observers have
shifted their headquarters
from Lebanon to Israel be-
cause of the fighting.
In Beirut itself, wide-
spread pillaging was re-
ported in broad daylight
under cover of the fight-
ing. According to one re-
port, an armed gang en-
tered the Beirut port area
and made off with 300
Mercedes cars unloaded
from a freighter a few days
before.
Gen. Gur said the terror-
ists in Lebanon and even
Syria alone posed no mili-
tary danger to Israel but if
Lebanon became a confron-
tation country and was
joined by Syria and all of
the other Arab countries in
a new war against Israel,
the situation would become
dangerous.
Gen. Gur said that if a
new Middle East war broke
out Israel would have to
bring it to a swift conclu-
sion before political factors
moved in to deprive Israel of
a decisive victory and allow
the Arabs to dictate the
terms of a cease-fire. He
claimed that Israel's forces
were stronger than before
the Yom Kippur War and
thanked world Jewry and
the U.S. for helping to equip
Israel with the most sophis-
ticated, modern weapons.
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