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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
PLO HIJACKS LEBANON
AND HOLDS ITS PEOPLE HOSTAGE
• Lebanon, abandoned by the West as a payoff to terrorism, became a horror
for the Lebanese and a dire threat to the lives of its neighbor.
• Saudi Arabia poured in hundreds of millions of dollars for the PLO and Syria
to purchase Soviet weapons to use against Lebanese and Israelis.
• So-called "refugee" camps, flying the flag of the United Nations, the organ-
ization dedicated to "world peace" were PLO terrorist training facilities and
fortresses with immense stocks of munitions and teaching youngsters to
hate and murder.
• By 1979, over 60,000 men, women and children had been killed in Lebanon;
131 towns and villages pillaged and destroyed — a terrifying destruction of
the ancient and democratic society of Lebanon.
• Thousands of terrorists from all over the world (but not from any Communist
country) received training and equipment from the PLO in Lebanon. The
Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot the Pope, trained for 40 days in a camp
near Beirut. The Italian Red Brigade that murdered the Italian Prime Minister
Moro, received their weapons from the PLO.
Yet free world leaders did not even denounce the PLO for these
crimes or for what they did to the Lebanese and Jewish people —
let alone do anything to prevent it.
WE ACCUSE AMERICAN JOURNALISTS OF VILLIFYING
ISRAEL WITH MALICIOUS, WILDLY-EXAGGERATED PLO
PROPAGANDA FIGURES AS TO THE CASUALTIES IN
LEBANON, MAKING NO EFFORT TO INVESTIGATE ITS
TRUTH.
• The figure of 600,000 made homeless is far more people than lived in the
area involved in the conflict.
• The PLO says 30,000 were wounded. They lie, Israel's count (as of June 22)
is 1,600 wounded, many only lightly hurt and already discharged. The
Israelis say 450 people were still hospitalized in southern Lebanon. In
addition 436 Lebanese and Palestinians were being treated in Israeli hopsi-
tals.
• We mourn those in Lebanon caught in the tragedy of war. We mourn the
Israeli soldiers who gave their lives to defend their country from the PLO that
fired artillery and missiles into their land from Lebanon. Israel, in the humane
tradition of the Jewish people, made a supreme effort to avoid casualties.
Repeated appeals were made through leaflets and over loudspeakers
asking people to leave the area involved in the fighting. But the PLO
terrorists army, occupying Lebanon, bear the responsibility for the casual-
ties by their wild, indiscriminate gunfire and their use of civilians as shields
and hostages.
• Now some 120,000 Lebanese refugees who fled because of the PLO in the
years of 1975-76 have returned to repair and build their homes, which were
destroyed or damaged during those years. -
• Evans-and-Novak (Washington Post, June 25, 1982) visited Tyre and Sidon
where some of the heaviest fighting took place, and reported "in the two
cities of Tyre and Sidon, these is reason to take seriously Israeli estimates
of Lebanese casualties." The reporters were told by a Lebanese, "You ask
how we like the Israelis . . . Compared to the hell we have had in Lebanon,
the Israelis are brothers."
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Israel Gives Habib More Time
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel has agreed to give the
U.S. some additional time to
negotiate the withdrawal of
Palestine Liberation
Organization forces from
Lebanon but is simultane-
ously escalating military
pressure against the PLO in
west Beirut.
Premier Menahem Begin
said Wednesday, after
meeting with U.S. special
envoy Philip Habib, that
the American diplomat
would seek a clear-cut
commitment from the PLO
to pull out of west Beirut
and would report his pro-
gress in two days. Habib re-
portedly told Begin there
was now a good chance to
reach a settlement but the
first step in that direction
should be restoration of the
cease-fire.
Israeli forces, meanwhile,
continued their heavy
aerial and artillery bom-
bardment of west Beirut,
combined with naval shel-
ling and rocket attacks from
offshore. The seventh
cease-fire since June 6 was
established on Wednesday.
The Israelis accused
the PLO of firing into the
largely Christian civilian
quarters of east Beirut
and attacking the Chris-
tian port of Junieh, north
of Beirut, where a
German-owned ship
chartered by the Interna-
tional Red Cross was se-
verely damaged by roc-
kets.
At his press conference
Wednesday, President Re-
agan made no commitments
on the Palestinian question.
With regard to the PLO in
Beirut, he said the U.S.
would open discussions with
the PLO if the PLO honors
key United Nations resolu-
tions and_recogmizes Israel's
right to exist.
Habib left Israel for Cyp-
rus and Beirut. It was un-
derstood that the Israelis
have given him until the
Colonel Resigns;
Cites Opposition
to Lebanon War
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Is-
raeli army colonel has been
relieved of his command in
Lebanon at his own request
because he said his con-
science and world opinion
did not permit him to con-
tinue to participate in the
fighting, a . military
spokesman disclosed Mon-
day.
Col. Eli Geva, 32, was
sent on leave by Chief of
Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan but
no action was taken on his
request to be allowed to re-
sign from the army. Earlier,
Eitan, Premier Menache
Begin and Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon met with Geva
in an unsuccessful attempt
to persuade him to with-
draw his resignation.
Named to Post
LOS ANGELES — Nor-
man R. Fishman has been
named executive vice
president of the Israel Ten-
nis Centers Association.
end of next week to come up
with a peaceful solution to
the Beirut impasse.
Israel is not expected to
take additional military ac-
tion until them, by which
time Begin will have re-
turned from a state visit to
Zaire and Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir will be
back from Washington.
Shamir is scheduled to meet
with Secretary of State
George Shultz on Monday
and Tuesday.
In Cairo, President
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt
urged President Reagan
to open a dialogue with
the PLO.
At the same_time, the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations urged Re-
agan to send a clear signal
to the PLO to leave Beirut
and Lebanon peacefully.
admitted later this week
that he had been wrong.
Begin's office said
Wednesday that Begin
was misquoted Tuesday
by McCloskey. McClos-
key reportedly told a U.S.
TV crew that Begin had
told him that Israel had
the right to destroy Be-
irut, "even if it would
have to kill 10 Lebanese--
and five Palestinian civ.
lians for every Palestf- -
nian soldier."
The office denied that
Begin had made such a
statement, saying the com-
ment was "a complete in-
vention." The office also
charged that McCloskey
had been hostile to Israel for
years.
Right in Your
own Driveway!
McCloskey-Arafat
Meeting Rejected
THE
TON E
-UP
MAN
Early this week, the Re-
agan Administration flatly
rejected the contention of
Rep. Paul Mccloskey (R-
Calif.) that PLO leader
Yasir Arafat had signed a
document that recognized
Israel's right to exist. The
PLO immediately corrected
McCloskey's weekend
statement in Beirut by say-
ing that Arafat had agreed
to accept "all UN resolu-
tions concerning the Pales-
tinian question."
Shamir and Begin met
with the McCloskey delega-
tion on Tuesday, with
Shamir describing the PLO
document as "an exercise in
deceit and delusion."
McCloskey insisted that
the document was valid, but
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