THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Levin Reports on Begin Meeting
CARL LEVIN and MENAHEM BEGIN
U.S. Senator Carl Levin on Wednesday strongly urged
.S. participation in a multi-national military force for the
_.„---x.irotection of a Lebanon freed of the PLO - Syrian invaders.
He reported on a private meeting Monday evening with
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin in Begin's hotel
room in Washington. With Levin also were Senators Spec-
ter, Boschwitz, Dole, Bradley, Cohen, Hawkins and Met-
zenbaum.
Levin also recalled his visit in Lebanon with Lebanese
President Elias Sarkis.
His report on his visit presented to The Jewish News
follows:
Prime Minister Begin documented a Soviet con-
was eloquent in his deter- trolled and equipped PLO,
mination that Israeli chil- which is an instrument of
dren should be able to grow Soviet policy. The prime
up without fear of ter- minister had in his posses-
rorism. His memory of bury- sion certificates of gradua-
ing small children who were tion taken from PLO mem-
victims of the PLO in Israel bers which they had re-
is as vivid as his memories ceived from various mili-
of the Holocaust. He will not tary institutions in Russia,
accept his people ever hav- Eastern European coun-
ing to live again under the tries, Vietnam, Algeria,
guns of terrorists without Yemen and a number of
other close allies of the
taking remedial action.
He pointed out that great Soviet Union.
Huge amounts of Soviet
care was taken to avoid civi-
lian casualties. He said that arms were captured by Is-
the question of civilian rael, including 500
casualties is always raised truckloads at one site in
by him immediately upon southern Lebanon. This
being presented with mili- weaponry was purchased
for the PLO by the Saudis
tary options.
The prime minister said with oil revenues. The
that the figures of civilian prime minister pointed out
dislocation have been exag- the fact that when America
gerated by 30 times, for ob- buys Saudi oil, we are indi-
vious reasons. He regrets rectly purchasing the Soviet
the loss of life but does not guns which the PLO fires at
regret in any way the mili- Israeli settlements.
I left the meeting more
tary action which he be-
lieves the United States convinced than ever that
should understand was a the events in Lebanon
represent a chance for
great service to the West.
peace
if we will but seize
Israel's goal is a secu-
rity zone of approx- it. The United States must
actively involve itself in a
imately 40 kilometers in multi-national
southern Lebanon.
Prime Minister Begin peacekeeping force and
wants American partici- in getting the PLO and
pation in a peacekeeping the Syrians out of Leba-
force in that zone. non. Israel can also then
President Reagan made 'remove her forces. The
no commitment to him United States must use its
relative to that but he did political and strategic
not preclude the possibil- leverage with the Saudis
to stop their support of
ity.
the PLO.
He told President Reagan
must strongly pursue
that he would strongly ob- an We
alternative energy pro-
ject to sales of sophisticated gram so we are less depen-
arms to Jordan because dent on Saudi oil, and so we
they represent a grave can buy less of it and drive
danger to Israel's security its price down. Only then
given the geography of the
will Saudi money not be so
area.
readily
available to buy the
Prime Minister Begin
&Met weaponry which is
used to carry out the sworn
Tewish Ties
goal of the PLO to destroy
MONTREAL (JTA) — Israel.
The six Jewish families in
The United States must
the university town of An- aid in the political and phys-
tigonish, Nova Scotia have ical reconstruction of Leba-
created an organization to non.
strengthen their Jewish
It was obvious to me a
ties.
year-and-a-half ago when I
The population of An- visited Lebanon and met
tigonish, home of St. Fran- with President Sarkis that
cis Xavier University, is the PLO and the Syrians
5,500 (95 percent Roman were rapidly filling a vac-
Catholic).
uum and that the Lebanese
AT
central government was
helpless to stop it unless the
President of the United
States became actively in-
vovled in the search for
Middle East peace.
We let the situation drift
to its present state.
Israel has now changed
the circumstances so that
the conditions of peace once
again are at hand. But only
strong American initiatives
can redeem the suffering of
the Israeli and Lebanese
people.
And history will surely
condemn us if we fail to take
those steps just as history
will approve of Israel's deci-
sive action which now
makes those initiatives
possible.
Friday, June 25, 1982 23
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