THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 1, 1981. 5
Israel Determined to Protect Christian Lebanese from Syrians
(Continued from Page 1)
If the Syrians controlled
the Sannine range, they
could then move south-
wards and, together with
the PLO terrorists, attack
Israel, Begin said.
He said the Syrians had
not listened to American
appeals to halt the fighting,
and President Hafez Assad
had even refused to receive
the U.S. ambassador to
p-mascus.
'ria
reportedly
II-roved Soviet anti-
aircraft missiles into the
mountains on Wednes-
day. At the same time in
London, Egyptian
Foreign Minister Butros
Ghali condemned Israeli
intervention and said
Egypt would side with
Syria if there was war be-
tween Syria and Israel.
At the UN, Egypt con-
demned intervention in
Lebanon by both sides.
Deputy Defense Minister
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Mordecai Zippori said Israel
had previously warned the
Syrians that they would not
be allowed to use their air
force in the skies of Leba-
non.
In an interview on the
Army Radio, Zippori said
the Syrians had recently in-
troduced a "new dimension"
into the fighting in Leba-
non. Asked about the down-
ing of the Syrian helicop-
ters, he said, The signifi-
cance is simple: We have
announced many times we
have an obligation towards
the Lebanese Christians
and we will not abandon
them to be slaughtered.
"The Syrians have re-
cently introduced a new di-
mension in their fight
against the Christians — a
dimension against which
they have no defense. That
is various kinds of helicop-
ters which are wreaking
havoc among the Chris-
tians." •
Asked if Israeli inter-
vention did not create the
danger of a Syrian-Israeli
confrontation, he replied,
"There is always the
danger, but Israel has
warned, and warned
again, that there will be
no Syrian air activity in
the skies over Lebanon."
Zippori said Israel would
continue to press for inter-
national diplomatic support
to end the fighting. "I am
glad to note that our appeals
have had some positive re-
sponse, for the first time,
from many countries,
mainly from the U.S.," he
said. A State Department
spokesman on Wednesday
said the U.S. has not given
Israel a "green light" for
military action in Lebanon.
Zippori said that one of Is-
rael's objectives in Lebanon
was to ensure that an entity
would develop there which
might be prepared to dis-
cuss peace with Israel. The
Syrian attack on the Chris-
tian concentrations in the
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Sannine Mountains near
Zahle, overlooking both the
Bekaa Valley and the
Christian-held coastal area
of Lebanon, would obliter-
ate such an entity he said.
Meanwhile, in Washing-
ton, the State Department
Maintained that it consid-
ers Syria "an important
country" for solving the
civil war in Lebanon. State
Department spokesman
Dean Fischer said that the
takeover by the Syrian
army over the weekend of
two high mountain points in
Lebanon was "a change in
the status quo" but he re-
fused to condemn Syria
specifically.
The department issued
a statement saying,
"Syria is obviously an
important country in this
area of the world and she
has a responsibility for
helping to return peace to
Lebanon." Noting that
the U.S. considers the
situation in Lebanon "ex-
tremely complex," the
statement stressed that
the U.S. wants
"maximum restraint by
all the parties in Leba-
non, so as to end the vio-
lence and further politi-
cal efforts for a solution."
The statement reiterated
that U.S. policy is aimed at
strengthening the central
government of Elias Sarkis
throughout the country and
"part of that goal is working
towards having the
Lebanese armed forces as-
sume security functions
throughout the country."
Syria's push in the
Lebanese mountains helped
to escalate fighting
elsewhere in Lebanon. Is-
raeli jets and artillery
traded bombardments with
Palestinian gunners in a
series of strikes and
counter-strikes which
erupted after PLO bal-
loonists tried to float into Is-
rael 10 days ago.
Israeli aircraft have made
daily strikes against Pales-
tinian targets since last
weekend, hitting gun and
rocket emplacements and a
concentration of PLO tanks.
In recent days the Is-
raeli jets responded to
Katyusha rocket attack
against the upper Galilee.
The PLO has introduced
40-barrel
rapid-fire,
rocket-
Katyusha
launchers mounted on
trucks. Those batteries
are highly mobile and
can discharge 40 rockets
night intercepted eight PLO
within a few seconds at a
terrorists in their area and
range of up to 20 kilomet-
confiscated their weapons.
ers (12 miles).
UNIFIL has been receiv-
Last weekend, the United
ing supplies for two weeks
Nations Interim Force in
through Haifa because of
Lebanon (UNIFIL) pro-
the fighting in Beirut and
tested that PLO positions
near Beirut had fired 24 • Sidon.
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Israel Political Parties Are
Choosing Lists for Election
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Polit-
ical parties of vastly differ-
ing ideologies are selecting
their lists for the June 30
Knesset elections in which a
welter of splinter factions
will be battling for seats
against the major an-
tagonists, Labor and Likud.
The Rafi faction, a
break-away from Likud
headed by former Finance
Minister Yigal Hurwitz,
voted to join former Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan's
new centrist party, Telem.
Hurwitz and Zalman
Shoval have been guaran-
teed safe seats.
Rafi
dissenting
A
member, Yitzhak Peretz,
refused to go along and said
he would consult with col-
leagues on the possibility of
forming a separate Rafi tic-
ket. Others indicated they
would prefer to return to
Likud.
Telem's chances of be-
coming a major force in
the next Knesset are di-
minishing rapidly ac-
cording to public opinion
polls. The latest survey
gave the party a
maximum of 4-5 seats in
contrast to the 15 seats
predicted by the polls
when Dayan announced
its formation earlier this
month.
Meanwhile, the ultra-
nationalist Tehiya faction
named Tel Aviv University
physics Prof. Yuval Ne'er-
man as its standard-bearer
followed on the list by Herut
defector Geula Cohen and
Hannon Porat, a leader of
the Gush Emunim.
Silva Zalmanson, a
former Soviet prisoner of
conscience, was placed 11th
on the list and rightwing
MK Moshe Shamir volun-
teered to occupy the 16th,
and last, place. He ex-
pressed confidence that
Tehiya will win at least 16
mandates.
Tehiya was formed in op-
position to the Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty and the
Camp David accords.
At the other end of the
political spectrum,
Mapam, a partner in the
Labor Alignment, named
as candidates for
ministerial posts in a
Labor-led government
two members who stand
even further to the left
than the party as a whole.
They are veteran MK
Chaika Grossman, who
would like to be Minister of
Social Betterment in the
next government, and
Eliezer Ronnen, chairman
of the company for the re-
development of central
Jerusalem.
Both had voted in the past
for Mapam to break- away
from its alighment with the
Labor Party.
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