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Arab Rejectionists' Schemes Have Torn Lebanon

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22 Friday, July 10, 1981

By Rev. FRANKLIN
LITTELL

National Institute
on the Holocaust

PHILADELPHIA — At
the recent Arab summit
meeting, Yasir Arafat, head
of the PLO terrorists,
boasted that Libya had
troops manning missile
sites in Lebanon, and that
they had been there since
1972. The Libyan presence
had been reported for some
time by Israeli intelligence,
and the reports were reg-
ularly denied by the prop-
aganda officers of the PLO
and the Arab League.
Faced with this admis-
sion by Arafat and his al-
lies, a spokesman for the
U.S. State Department on

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May 30 (Associated Press
report) admitted the facts.
He then tried to cover the
embarrassment of admit-
ting that the Israelis had
been right all along by say-
ing that most of the Libyans
had come into Lebanon dur-
ing the last three or four
weeks, although a few had
perhaps been there much
longer.
Was the State Depart-
ment aware of this all along,
and withheld the informa-
tion from the American vot-
ers? Or have we here an-
other painful case of incom-
petence in American in-
telligence?
The date is important,
for it was in late 1972 and
early 1973 that the ag-
gressor nations of the
Arab League were lining
up the attack on Israel
which we now call the
Yom Kippur War.
At the time it was ex-
pected by Israel's enemies
that Lebanon could be pres-
sured into taking part in the
projected attack. As we all
know, however, the heads of
the Lebanese Army —
which at that time still
functioned, unshattered by
Muslim defections and open
disloyalty to the republic —
thought better of it. They
• hadiseen willing for years to
join in the general hortatory
exercise of preaching
against "the Zionist
enemy," but they had too
much sense to join a mili-
tary attack.
When the Lebanese Army
refused to close the circle
and join the sneak Yom
Kippur attack on Israel,
Lebanon was doomed to
civil war and capture. It was
clear that the aggressive al-
liance would never forgive
the Lebanese Army officers
for holding back, especially
since most of them were
Christians.
A few months later, after
their defeat in the Yom

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Kippur "war," the Syrians
invaded Lebanon and in
cooperation with the PLO
and a quisling section of the
Christian community' has
set out to incorporate that
country into Greater Syria.
The civil war which has
raged off and on since then,
which the empty-headed
and ignorant popular jour-
nalists interpret as a con-
flict between "rightwing
Christians" and "leftwing
Muslims," has centered on
one question and one only:
Whether Syria can pull it
off.
So far, only a small sec-
tion of Christian militia in
the south is resisting, and
that only with Israeli
equipment. The
"civilized world" (sic!)
long ago wrote the Chris-
tian communities off as a
nuisance, threatening the
policy of appeasement of
Arab terrorism, aggres-
sion and oil blackmail
which the Carter Ad-
ministration and the
"European Community"
had settled upon.
President Reagan's ex-
pulsion of Libyan "dip-
lomats," who had turned
their mission into a center
for directing terrorism and
assassination within the
U.S., was most welcome.
Whether Lebanon, ravaged
physically and politically
destroyed as a separate
entity, has a future as an
independent nation is very
doubtful.
The PLO, functioning as a
state within a state, delib-
erately destroyed the 1943
National Covenant which
had made Lebanon's inde-
pendence as a republic
possible in 1946. And now
Syria has the largest and
most purposeful army in the
area: they intend to take
over for Greater Syria; the
various militias cannot
agree to cooperate for the
sake of Lebanon.
The United Nation has

Reagan Submits
Egyptian Nuclear
Pact to Congress

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Reagan sent to
Congress Tuesday, a nu-
clear agreement with Egypt
which, he said, will "further
the non-proliferation and
other foreign policy inter-
ests in the United States."
The agreement signed at
the State Department on
June 29, could provide
Egypt with up to two nu-
clear reactors for energy
production purposes. Con-
gress has 60 days in which
to accept or reject the ac-
cord.
"The proposed bilateral
agreement reflects the de-
sire of the governments of
the U.S. and Egypt to es-
tablish a framework for
peaceful nuclear coopera-
tion in a manner which will
recognize our shared non-
proliferation objectives, the
economic and energy de-
velopment needs of Egypt
and the friendly and har-
monious relations between
the U.S. and Egypt," Re-
agan said.

been unable to do much
about the situation. At first
few Lebanese voices were
heard crying out for help;
they have now been re-
placed by quislings who
parrot the Syrian line. The
ordinary people have been
leaving for Canada, Au-
stralia and the U.S. as fast
as they could make ar-
rangements.
Dr. Charles Malik, once
an internationally recog-
nized statesman, but
whose anti-Semitism and
anti-Israel postures
helped the destruction of
his country and the Sy-
rian takeover, has come
to the United States as a
visiting professor at
American University.
Only President Sarkis
remains as a venerable
Christian statesman, try-
ing to salvag# a modest
chance for life for his
shattered people when
the Arab League, Syrians
and PLO get through
with their infighting.
But the Libyans and their
allies will try to sabotage
even that operation, for
Qaddafi and the rejectionist
wing of the Arab League
cannot imagine a situation
in which either Chris-
tians or Jews have any
rights in the world of Islam.
Intellectually, in their
world-view, they are about
where Christendom was in
the 13th Century, when
Jews, Waldensians, Al-

bigensians, Bogomili and
any others that didn't fit a
monolithic political and
religious and cultural view
were burned and
slaughtered - with a will.
The case of the Libyans in
Lebanon illustrates again
how little we can trust the
word of the representatives
of the PLO and the Arab
League, and also how little
confidence we can have in
American government offi-
cials who either don't know
the important facts or are
inclined to keep them from
the American voters as long
as possible.
Being thankful for the Is-
raeli destruction of a bomb
factory which madmen like
Hussein and Qaddafi would
gladly have used against
their enemies, we are
moved not only by sym-
pathy for the people of Israel
but by the thought of the
consequences of nuclear
proliferation to our own
lives.

We have watched
Lebanon slowly twisting
in the wind through years
of slow death. We have
seen and heard of the
quick death the "rejec-
tionists" have intended,
and twice tried, against
the people of Israel.
When the Israeli air force
took out the bomb factory in
Iraq they did a noble service
for the whole civilized
world.

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Emigration Statistics Out

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The number of immigrants
arriving from France and
the United States increased
in May compared to the
same month last year,
Rafael Kotlowitz, head of
the Jewish Agency's immi-
gration and absorption de-
partment reported. But the
number of Jews arriving
from the Soviet Union con-
tinued to drop sharply.
Aliya from France,
though small in numbers,
showed a dramatic 83 per-
cent rise with the arrival of
88 immigrants in May corn-
pared to 48 in May, 1980. A
total of 477 immigrants
came from France during
the first five months of
1981, a figure Kotlowitz cre-
dits to the success of the
"Ufaratzta" project of his
department which sends
specialized emissaries to
France.
The number of immig-
rants from the U.S. in May
was 149, up from 119 in May
1980. A total of 880 immig-
rants from all countries ar-
rived in Israel in May and
822 in April.
But only 974 Soviet
Jews immigrated to Is-
rael during the first five
months of this year com-
pared to 5,365 in the same
period last year and the
dropout rate has reached
83 percent. Kotlowitz at-
tributed this to the fact
that the Soviets permit-
ted emigration from
areas which have always
had a high dropout rate.
They have also severely
curtailed the total

number of Jews allowed
to leave.
Only 5,803 Jews left the
USSR from January
through May 1981, com-
pared to 13,321 in the same
period a year ago.
The National Conference
on Soviet Jewry reported
that a total of 866 Jews left
the Soviet Union in June,
the lowest number for any
single month this year ex-
cept January when 850 de-
parted.

Retired Justice
Defends Conduct
in WB and Gaza

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Retired Supreme Court Jus-
tice Haim Cohen strongly
defended the conduct of the
Military Government in the
occupied territories. He ob-
served that while the mili-
tary sometimes exaggerates
Security needs over other
values, its overall record of
administration has been
exemplary.
Cohen, who earned th
reputation of being one of
the most liberal jurists on
Israel's highest court, made
his remarks at a press con-
ference to mark publication
of the booklet "The Rule of
Law in the Areas Adminis-
tered by Israel," a research
study by the Jerusalem
branch of the International
Committee of Jurists (ICJ)
The study was under-
taken in reply to a highly
critical report by West Bank
lawyers Raja Shehadeh and
Honathan Kuttab pub-
lished last year by the ICJ.

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