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Friday, lune 25, 1982 29
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Lebanon Fighting Created New Possibilities for Peace
By REV FRANKLIN
LITTE LL
National Institute
on the Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA
Events are moving so fast in
the Middle East that the
writer of a weekly column
invites real trouble in mak-
ing comment at all. Yet
there are certain funda-
mentals in the situation,
easily forgotten in the
safety of North America but
in the front of the mind of
every Israeli.
First and foremost is the
fact that the PLO camps
'lave become since 1975 the REV. FRANKLIN LITTELL
.nounting stages for as- modern totalitarian gov-
saults on Israel and its citi- ernments, whether
zens . . . not for assaults on Communist or fascist.
Israeli military installaL Their assaults are aimed
tions, but for assaults on at undermining the gov-
unarmed civilians, always ernments of the Free
the preferred terrorist World: republics and
target.
constitutional monar-
Terrorism, let it be re- chies primarily.
membered, is different from
When the Israeli troops
freedom-fighting. Free- set forth to smash the PLO
dom-fighters are soldiers centers, they were of course
not in uniform, fighting a primarily concerned with
war: their targets are mili- protecting the lives of their
tary. Terrorists are acting own people. But other
to destroy a society through peoples have benefitted.
"de-stabilization": their
As Lebanon declined, fol-
targets are chosen to lowing the PLO invasion of
maximize horror, anxiety, _1971 and the Syrian inva-
fear . . . the more helpless sion of 1975, a Lebanese
(school children, women government ceased to exist.
shoppers, etc.) the better.
The area declined into a
The assaults from the more and more dangerous
PLO training camps have jungle, with private armies
been primarily of two fighting back and forth. In
kinds. They have been the end, Beirut became a
bases for Russian artil- city like London in Doris
lery and rockets to fire on Lessing's "Memoirs of a
Upper Galilee villagers. Survivor" — with extended
They have been bases families, heavily armed but
from which trained with no religious or ideolog-
bands of infiltrators have ical coloration, fighting
set forth to set traps and each other for food and cover
bombs for killing civi- and sheer survival.
lians in Israel and out-
No government existed to
side.
supply simple protection to
As Israel Defense Forces the people of Lebanon, let
have become more expert in alone to restrain the ter-
catching would-be infil- rorist activities. The PLO
trators along the borders, and the Syrians had de-
the attack upon Jews who stroyed the country: the
are synagogue worshippers cities became jungles and
or unarmed diplomats of the countryside was broken
school children in less- up into fiefdoms ruled by
protected places has been war lords and robber ba-
stepped up.
rons.
In infiltrating other coun-
In spite of repeated dip-
tries to kill Jews, especially lomatic initiatives, Israel
in Western Europe, the PLO found no help in the so-
has been assisted by other called international com-
sectors of the international munity. No power would
terrorist network. The PLO help to get restraints upon
camps, with personnel and the terrorists at their camps
equipment of the latest and of origin, and several
best from East Germany "statesmen" — like Lord
and Hungary and Cuba, Caradon of Britain — were
have rivalled the Russian publicly crawling on their
satellite of South Yemen in hands and knees to kiss the
training specialists for the sheikhs' sandals.
Tupamaros of Uruguay, the
The Israeli strike
Baader - Meinhof gangs of against the enemy cen-
West Germany, the Italian ters, a last recourse, has
Red Brigades, the pro- createed a tremendously
visionals of the IRA, the important potential for a
Japanese Red Army, etc.
more solid peace in the
And when the PLO killers area.
travel to Vienna or Brussels
Israel's enemies outside
'r Berlin or London to com- the immediate conflict have
Mt some new atrocity, they seized the occasion, of
can count on help from their course, for more moralistic
fellow-alumni — allies in resolutions and press re-
the assault upon represen- leases. The association of
tative government and lib-
Whenever a man talks
erty.
Here we have the sec- loudly against religion al-
ond type of assault for ways suspect that it is not
which the PLO his reason, but his passions
encampments have be- which have got the better of
come well-known. Ter- his creed.
—Laurence Sterne
rorists are no problem to
"non-aligned nations,"
dominated by "non-
alignment" like Cuba's and
India's, and the Arab
League governments have
passed virtually identical
statements condemning Is-
rael for "acts of aggression"
aimed at eliminating "the
Palestinian people." Fortu-
nately no one of political
importance will take these
"non-aligned" statements
seriously.
With the bases of the ter-
rorists shattered, there is
hope that governments like
those of Saudi Arabia and
Jordan — where the rulers
have had to go fearful for
their lives — may at last
have the courage to join in
the peace-making process.
Egypt seems to be holding
steady, although the Mus-
lim fundamentalists and
secret brotherhoods that
provided the support for
President Sadat's murder
are still strong. President
Reagan and other Western
leaders have shown re-
straint in their statements
and — at last — some
understanding of the day-
after-day, night-after-night
strain under which the ter-
rorists have kept the people
of the upper Galilee.
Prime Minister Begin
has said clearly that Is-
raeli forces will not be
withdrawn until the situ-
ation in Lebanon is
stabilized. His men have
created a new oppOrtu-
nity for stabilizing not
only Lebanon but the
whole area.
The question is whether
the government of the U.S.
and its European allies are
capable of capitalizing upon
the new situation in a crea-
tive way. If they are, others
may join Egypt and Israel in
seeking permanent peace.
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