THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
MDA Is Aiding the Injured
Magen David Adom, Israel's emergency medical
service, has been in the forefront of relief efforts and
taking care of the injured during the conflict in Leba-
non. In the top photograph, a fleet of 20 MDA ambu-
lances and 10 trucks is shown leaving Jerusalem to
aid civilians in Lebanon. In the bottom photograph,
wounded soldiers are carried from a plane and loaded
into an ambulance. Directing (in the white shirt) is
Haim Vigolik, manager of the MDA Jerusalem region.
Israel 'Won't Tolerate PLO
War of Attrition' in Beirut
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
senior Israeli official
warned somberly Sunday
after the Cabinet meeting
that time is pressing, time
is running short." He noted
that the Cabinet ministers,
who devoted their discus-
sion to the conflict in Leba-
non, "are keenly aware that
the present situation cannot
go on indefinitely" and that
Israel, moreover "will not
tolerate a war of attrition"
developing in and around
Beirut.
According to the official,
the general Cabinet feeling
was that the negotiations
dealing with the evacuation
of Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization forces from west
Beirut "are not progressing
as they should, they are not
moving ahead as had been
hoped."
The senior official noted
pointedly that U.S.
mediator Philip Habib had
predicted a breakthrough
by the weekend and had
now to explain why it hadn't
happened. This was not the
first time Habib's optimism
had proved unfounded, the
official said.
Also unfounded, as far
as Israel could tell, was
the public assertion over
the weekend made by
Lebanese negotiator (and
former Premier) Saeb
aam that the PLO had
drawn its earlier
ands for a residual
political and military
presence in Beirut.
Speaking against a
backdrop of escalating artil-
lery duels in Beirut between
the Israel Defense Forces
and the PLO, the senior Is-
rael official warned that Is-
rael would not countenance
a "war of attrition." He
stressed that for the past
several days it was invari-
ably the PLO that initiated
the artillery exchanges. Is-
rael, he added, was reacting
with restraint: it was not
utilizing the force or
firepower at its disposal.
If the Cabinet concluded
that diplomacy was leading
nowhere, it would consider
other alternatives to get the
PLO out, the senior official
said. This certainly need not
mean blanket bombing —
"as the West did during
World War II to Dresden or
Hamburg. We have a diffe-
rent morality . ." Other
- military options were av-
ailable, he said.
The official said there
were indirect diplomatic
contacts between
Jerusalem and Moscow fol-
lowing the damage done
last week to the Soviet trade
mission in Beirut, appa-
rently from Israeli shelling.
He did not elaborate.
Among the ministers
there are understood to
be varying assessments
as to the situation in
Beirut. Some believe the
PLO is duping Israel and
merely playing for time.
Others still have faith in
the diplomatic efforts,
though they are less op-
timistic in view of the
slow and complicated
course of the negotia-
tions.
The Cabinet heard re-
ports from Premier.
Menachem Begin, Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon and the Foreign
Ministry's Director General
David Kimche.
Kimche was in Beirut
over the weekend for talks
with Habib and Lebanese
officials. His efforts appa-
rently reflected continued
American optimism that
the diplomatic process,
given time, can achieve suc-
cess. The U.S. is understood
to be maintaining its pres-
sure upon Israel not to in-
vade west Beirut.
President Navon Angered by
Mitterrand Critique of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel's President Yitzhak
Navon, in a rare political
utterance, Sunday blasted
France's President Francois
Mitterrand for comparing
Israel Defense Forces action
in Lebanon to the Nazis'.
deliberate razing of a
French village, with its in-
habitants, during World
War II.
"With this calumny you
have gone too far," Navon
declared, apostrophizing
Mitterrand in a speech
marking Herzl's memorial
day Tammuz 20 in
Jerusalem.
Navon said Mitterrand's
comparison was "terrible"
and offended against all vic-
tims of Nazism, both Jews
and the inhabitants of the
village, Oradour-sur Giane.
Mitterrand reportedly
made the comparison in a
statement during a visit
to Hungary.
Navon added the French
president's remark was a
dishonor to thp French
anti-Nazi resistance move-
ment, in which Mitterrand
was a fighter.
Earlier, at the weekly
Cabinet session, Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir
said he had instructed Am-
bassador Meir Rosenne in
Paris to submit the
"strongest protest" at Mit-
terrand's remark.
Begin was present at the
Herzl memorial ceremony
when Navon spoke and ob-
servers assumed the presi-
dent's remarks -had been
coordinated in advance with
the prime minister.
Meanwhile, Rosenne
lodged a formal protest
against Mitterrand's.recent
comparison between the Is-
raeli occupation of Lebanon
and the World War II mas-
sacre carried out by the
Nazis at Oradour sur-
Glane.
Rosenne reportedly told
France's top career dip-
lomat, Foreign Ministry
Secretary General Francis
Gutmann, that any parallel
between the two is "abso-
lutely inadmissable."
Mitterrand is reported to
have said last Friday at the
end of a two-day visit to
Hungary "France condemns
any intervention by a coun-
try in the 'affairs of another
and condemns even more
energetically a violent,
military intervention."
When a Palestinian
newsman mentioned "the
Oradours carried out by Is-
rael in Lebanon," Mitter-
rand, according to a French
official spokesman said: "I
did not condone the
Ouradour carried out by the
Germans in France and I
would not condone any
Oradour carried out in
Beirut or in any other place
in the world."
The Israeli government
reacted at once to Mitter-
rand's declaration.
Rosenne was to lodge a
formal protest at the
Elysee Palace where the
envoy was due to meet
Mitterrand's special ad-
viser, Jacques Attali.
French sources said the
meeting with Attali, which
had been scheduled for
sometime, was cancelled
apparently as a sign of
French anger. The Elysee
Palace Chief of Staff, Jean
Louis Bianco rapped Israel
saying "the Israeli au-
thorities failed to check
their facts before protest-
The incident created by
Mitterrand's declaration
and by the successive Israeli
and French protests has
brought Franco-Israeli re-
lations to their lowest since
the socialist electoral vic-
tory last spring.
Israeli officials have been
angered by what they view
as Mitterrand's attempts to
save the PLO leadership in
Beirut. This frustration has
been compounded by
French initiatives at the
UN and the European
Economic Community to try
and obtain an Israeli with-
drawal from Lebanon.
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TEL AVIV —The Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion has issued a written in-
vitation to the wife of a cap-
tured Israeli pilot to come to
west Beirut under its pro-
tection and visit her hus-
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