THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14 Friday, July 9, 1976 medicine and Kind Words Ease the Plight o Christian Lebanese • By YAACOV EREZ World Zionist Organization JERUSALEM — Some- where along the frontier between Israel and the Le- banon a narrow slit in the COMPLETE ALTERATIONS Reasonable Prices HERBERT Cleaners & Tailors Expert Drapery Cleaning Knits & Sweaters Suede & Leather Cleaning GET OUR LOWEST PRICES 24709 Coolidge at 10 Mile Across from Dexter Davison 399-0336 Pr5bitiatft perimeter fence opens a door for what may pbssibly be a new relationship be- tween Israel and the Chris- tian population in the war- torn land. Through this nar- row gate hundreds of Chris- tians have passed over dur- ing the past two weeks to receive medical aid in the mobile clinic run by the Is- rael Defense Forces near the frontier. Scores of Christian women, children, and young men wounded in the Le- banese civil war come over every day. 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As she waited her turn from the same direction, on the other side of the fron- halting with a screech and tier, one could see the ten- discharging their "cargo" of sion and fear that possessed women and children, old her. But no sooner had she folk and even several young passed through the fence persons. Some Lebanese ve- than these melted away and hicles could be seen cruising her back straightened. to and fro along the same In the ambulance section of the road. There parked nearby a young were bearded young men in Israeli physician was them; some in uniform, oth- working under trying con- ers in mufti. One could see ditions, treating the Le- no firearms in their posses- banese patients. Soldiers sion. In all probability they in the reserves, drawn had come to look after the safety of their Christian from all walks of life, were brethren as they cross into doing everything in their Israeli territory. power to relieve the suffer- Suddenly the military ing of those who came beg- ambulance marked with a ging for aid. The Lebanese villagers red Magen David drew up. gather on the other side of The Lebanese who sat in the border, awaiting the the shade of the trees on arrival of the brown army the other side of the road ambulance. A white rose to their feet and drew Mercedes car drew up and up to the fence. An Israeli the young bearded driver soldier opened the gate asked the Israeli soldiers in and let the first two 'women pass through. Arabic: "When?" "In another hour," one of Medical orderlies led them to the ambulance. them replies. One of the women A young fair-haired climbed inside and began woman, in her last months explaining her ailment to of pregnancy, alighted from the physician. The orderly the car carrying a two-year- old baby in her arms. She translated from Arabic into walked across to the nearby Hebrew and back into Ara- plantation and sought shel- bic again, and handed-her ter among the trees. A few some medicines. The woman returned to Le- elerentliteragnielensrePIMPurtreneteneollsonlanInIPIPleatal banese territory, entered the car parked by the side of the grove and disappeared. This process repeated itself for long hours. Israeli soldiers stationed there made black coffee for the Lebanese patients and CARS COST LESS & SERVICE IS BEST AT DEXTER CHEVROLET YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DEALER FOR 45 YEARS. 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In addition, it has sup- ported dual enrollment or "shared time" programs, in which parochial school chil- dren are intermingled with public school children on public school premises for instruction in non-religious subjects, such as mathemat- ics, science, and industrial art, while continuing to re- ceive their religious instruc- tion in the parochial schools. distributed sweets to the children. The children from across the frontier came with their everyday prob- lems: stomach ache, flu, running wounds. Old people with chronic ailments came, too, and explain their trou- bles through the aid of the dragoman. This is how the hours drag on. Israeli soldiers stationed nearby look after the safety of both those arriving in search of aid and those of- fering it. Slowly the thicket on the other side of the road grows empty. The patients return to the cars carrying drugs and, some of them, in- vitations for another exami- nation in another few days' time. Thirty five Lebanese vil- lagers received medical treatment at the frontier the other day. It was a Sunday and so their num- ber was larger than usual'. For the present, at any rate, the Lebanese appre- ciate Israel's humane ges- ture. With happy faces they thank the medical staff as well as the drago- mans. No payment is ac- cepted for the services but, after realizing that, • they content themselves with a few warm words of thanks and a shake of the hand. One young women said, "In school they taught us that you were murderers, that you kill women and children and have no pity for the Arabs. I was afraid to come for medical treat- ment. But there is no one to offer it on our side of the border, and so I was forced to come. To my surprise I found out that you are hu- man beings, people with good hearts, and that your country opens its borders'to our sorely stricken commu- L 'I , 4 % 1 5 it l= 411.4 0: -.) 1 e , Lif nity." Now the brown military ambulance has became part of the new scene. Now peo- ple come even if they do not suffer from serious illnesses and are not in need of ur- gent treatment. They come to tell their woes to the Is- raeli doctor and hear "a kind word" from him. In the late afternoon as a cool wind was blowing, a sudden thunder of guns could be heard from deep in Lebanon. The medical treat- ment ended; the ambulance began to return to its base, while a convoy of Lebanese cars wended its way north- ward to the war ravaged country. Today, at the same place, scores of Lebanese will again await the arrival of the Israeli doctor. For Custom Drapery Cleaning, Call DRAPERY CLEANERS "All That The Name Implies" We Also - Wash & Finish Drip Dry Curtaini Professionally WE DO ALL THE WORK REMOVE AND INSTALL 891.1818 Suburban Coll Colic. 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