4 12 Friday, July 30, 1%2 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." ZOA ACTION GUIDELINE WRITER LETTERS TO YOUR NEWSPAPERS, WITH COPY TO ZOA. Tell them misinformation should be corrected. In your letters cite their failures to be objective and fully report significant events. Editor The Detroit News 615 Lafayette Blvd. Detroit, MI 48231 Editor Free Press 21 W. Lafayette Detroit, MI 48231 Zionist Organization of America Detroit District 18451 West 10 Mile Road Southfield, Michigan 48075 IRVING LAKER, president SIDNEY SILVERMAN Chairman, executive board 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 Certified by the National Automotive Institute of Excellence Comes to your home or office with the "garage-on-wheats." 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