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Friday, May 11, 1981

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Bias Evident in Church, Press
Treatment of Lebanese Christians

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peatedly called attention to
the importance of the de-
struction of the Christian
communities in Lebanon.
They are under the guns of
the Syrians, who invaded
the country to incorporate it
into "Greater Syria," and
the assaults of the PLO, who
were driven out of Jordan
when they failed in an as-
sassination attempt on
King Hussein.
If one were unaware of
the persistent anti-Jewish
and anti-Israel bias of

many of the church
bureaucrats, he would be •
astonished at the indif-
ference of such persons to
the Syrian and PLO attacks
on Lebanese Christians.
But the bias is clear: when
the Israeli military
counter-attacks against
PLO terrorist nests in
Lebanon, they fill the
heavens with their outcries.
When the Syrian-PLO mili-
tary forces bombard Chris-
tian- villages that have re-
sisted Muslim takeover of
their homes, the church
bureaucrats are strangely
silent.
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the Holy Muslim Empire for
centuries, achieved inde-
pendence in 1946. The con-
stitutional balance of sub
political communities —
Sunni, Shiite, Maronite,
Jacobite, Melkite, etc.
which made a short-lived
republic possible was at best
precarious. The fatal flaw
was permitting such com-
munities to recruit and
equip private armies, a flaw
from which other republics
might draw reasonable con-
clusions concerning para-
military camps and forma-
tions.
In Lebanon, the Chris-
tian communities signed
-their own death warrant
when they refused to join
the 1973 Yom Kippur at-
tack on Israel. They had
for years mouthed the
traditional anti-Zionist,
anti-Israel — and even
openly anti-Semitic —
slogans against the Jews.
But their officers had too
good sense to allow the
Lebanese army to join the
military offensive.
As I predicted at the time,
they have been punished:
Lebanon was plunged into
civil war, the Syrians in-1
vaded with massive forces,
the Lebanese army has been
reduced to impotence, and
only a small strip on the Is-
rael border in the south has
been able under Major Saad
Haddad to preserve some
semblance of a "Free Leba-
non."
The UN Assembly, to-
tally controlled by an al-
liance of Communist and
Arab League representa-
tives, has of course bent
every effort to get formal
condemnation of those
Christian communities that
still resist the takeover.
The news services, with
their customary blindness
to the basic issues, even
when on occasion some re-
porter attempts a balanced
report, always blackens the
Christian defenders of their
homes. They are "rightw-
ing" (negative!) forces fight-
ing presumably "progress-
ive" (sic!) Syrian and PLO
armies. Even the recent`
bombing of Beirut and
Zahle, in which many civi-
lians were killed by Syrian
artillery, apparently cannot
stir the compassion of either
church bureaucrats or
sophisticated journalists.
The Christians are
"militia" opposing the Sy-
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