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Commentary, Page 2
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LXXVII, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
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August 22, 1980
IQF Strikes Against the PLO
to Prevent Border Terrorism
SSSJ Members Pray
at Soviet UN Mission
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States is conducting "a continuing investigation" of Israel's
possible use of American weapons"beyond its own borders, State Department spokesman David Passage
said against the background of Israel's incursion into south Lebanon Monday night and Tuesday morning.
"I don't know if the law has been violated," he said. U.S. law prohibits use of American weaponry outside
the borders of the country that receives them.
Passage reiterated previous U.S. views on Israel penetration of south Lebanon where Palestinian
terrorists have military strongholds by noting that "continuing violence contributes to violence" and
expressing support for the integrity of Lebanon. He refused to condemn the Israeli incursion, however,
saying he has "no way of characterizing the raid except to note that it took place."
Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Raphael Eitan characterized the four-pronged helicopter assault
by the ISrael Defense Forces as a pre-emptive strike against PLO bases near Israel's border.
Since the IDF evacuated south Lebanon in 1978, terrorists have launched 48 strikes, killing nine
Israeli civilians, two soldiers and wounding 31 civilians and 20 soldiers.
During the same period. terrorists shelled Israeli settlements 29 times and penetrated Israel nine
times by sea. In clashes with the IDF, 31 terrorists were killed and 22 were taken prisoner.
During Monday night's operation, Eitan said three Israeli soldiers were killed and 13 wounded. An
estimated 50 terrorists were killed by the IDF and three taken prisoner.
This was the second operation against the terrorists in less than a week. Israel launched a combined
land, air and sea attack last Thursday against the bases north of Tyre and north of Sidon and leveled them.
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A number of terrorists were killed and all Israeli forces returned safely to their bases.
_ Palestinian gunners shelled northern Israel following Monday's raid and Israeli jets retaliated with
air strikes inside southern Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Monday night raid was directed against four targets in the Arnoun Plateau north and
west of the Litani River: the vil-
lages of Arnoun, Hamma, Tibnit
and Jabel Tahara. -The Israeli
forces reportedly arrived after
midnight, surprising the ter-
rorists in their bases. An advance
PARIS (JTA) — The Iranian Parliament on Sunday expelled its
force of the Golani Infantry
only Jewish member, Eshagh Farahmandpur, after a two-hour debate
taking the form of a trial, according to reports from Teheran.
Brigade was the first to confront a
Seventy members voted against Farahmandpur for "collaboration
unit of terrorists. After a brief ex-
with the regime of the late Shah, and with Zionism," teaching until
change of fire the Israeli force
1969 at the ORT international school "which had relations with Israel,"
overcame the terrorists.
and tutoring the Shah's nephew for nine months. Thirty-six members
Once near the targeted bases the
of the Parliament voted for him and 89 abstained:
forces comprising infantry-
Israeli-
The barred Jewish deputy denied the charges, saying he was un-
men and paratroopers simultane-
aware of the school's international ties and he gave instructions to the
ously attacked the terrorists.
Shah's nephew on orders of the National Education Ministry and with-
Early Tuesday, the Israeli Air
out pay. Farahmandpur was also accused of being "against the taking
Force bombed the ancient Beaufort
of the (U.S.) hostages" and of having protested the June 5 execution of
for Ties to Shah, Zionism
Members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
pray before an open Torah during a Tisha b'Av
demonstration outside the Soviet Union's United Na-
tions Mission. The students protested the 1980 Olym-
pics ("of Oppression") in Moscow and the plight of
Soviet Jewry.
Iranian Jew Albert Danielpur for being an Israeli spy.
Embassies Quit Jerusalem for Tel Aviv
L AVIV (JTA) — Ecuador Tuesday became the third South American country to announce it will move its
embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in the wake of the new Israeli law formally declaring united Jerusalem the capital
_el. As did Venezuela and Uruguay in announcing their decision earlier, Ecuador insisted that its friendship for
Is ._„4 is unchanged by the move.
Dr. Wilson Vela Hervas, Ecuador's ambassador, said that the move was based on a principle of his country's
foreign policy which is not to recognize the acquisition of territory by force. He indignantly rejected a suggestion that
the move was due to Arab pressure. "I have not heard anything about Arab threats or pressure on Israel," he said. We
have only a handful of citizens of Arab extraction."
But the Israeli Foreign Ministry, in expressing its regret over the announced move, disagreed. "It's
reasonable to assume that Ecuador did yield to Arab pressure as there is nothing in the text of the Jerusalem
bill that changes an existing situation or warrants such a move by Ecuador," a ministry spokesman said. He
said he hoped that Ecuador will change its mind even though Hervas officially presented the Ecuadorian
decision to the Foreign Ministry Tuesday.
In talking to reporters Tuesday night, the Ecuadorian envoy stressed that Tel Aviv is also Israel and he would be
visiting Jerusalem frequently both in his political capacity and to maintain his social contacts.
Meanwhile, announcements are expected in Tel Aviv from three other Latin American countries with embassies
in Jerusalem — Chile, Bolivia and Colombia. However, Colombian Ambassador Cesar Castro Pardomo told reporters,
We have sufficient oil and any decision taken by my government will not be based on threats of oil cuts."
However, the real concern in Israel is whether Holland, the only West European country with an embassy in
Jerusalem, will also move its embassy to Tel Aviv. The Dutch have come under heavy Arab pressure and the
government in Amsterdam is presently considering the question.
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U.S. Assails Latest Security Council
Action Censuring Israel on Jerusalem
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Elizabeth Taylor Aids
Holocaust Program
,
Shown at the John Wood Recording Studio in
London, Rabbi Marvin Hier, left, dean of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, reviews the center's "Genocide"
multi-media project with Elizabeth Taylor Warner
and multi-media director Arnold Schwartzman. Mrs.
Warner, along with Orson Welles, donated her time
and talent to participate in the project.