64 Friday, August 20, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
_ Cheering Lebanese Put Israeli Action in Perspective
By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
three Christian armies, not coin drives out the better. sian equipment stored in know that the hell they ment cliques in Western
from the four Muslim ar- After 1976, assassinations, concrete bunkers in the lived through under the ter- Europe and America will be
mies, not from the two kidnappings, bombings of Lebanese mountains to rorists is over."
able to salvage Arafat and
PHILADELPHIA — Is- Druze armies. Not even political party headquar- equip an army of 350,000-
his
killers, and thereby
Lebanese
Have
rael, our only ally — and the Wallid Jumblatt, long fea- ters, etc., became common. 400,000. They calculated it
sabotage the best interests
Proper
Timetable
tured
by
journalists
as
During
the
civil
war
of
will
take
90
days
of
inten-
only democratic govern- Arafat
All Lebanese, of all politi- of the free world.
's important "leftw- 1975-1976, from which sive transport to move that
In a few days, events have
ment — in the Middle East, ing Muslim ally," ordered many of the pictures and booty to Israel.
cal opinions and all splinter
moved beyond the stage
is
increasingly
the
object
of
Ms
forces
to
resist
the
"Is-
films
are
now
being
used
governments,
say
the
same
In the meantime,
unrestrained assault by the
media. Not since World War raeli invasion. This should years later to "document" everyone but the jour- thing about the Israeli when this was written and
have led Western jour- the destruction of Israel's nalists has observed that police action: "Get the PLO the temptation is strong to
ask "What if . .?"
II
has
there
been
such
reek-
less devotion to propaganda nalists to ask some funda-police action(!), in Lebanon the buildup was not for out! Let the Syrians get out!
What if Arab League gov-
mental
questions
about
.
.
.
and
then
get
out
yourse-
the small sighting bands
and disregard for the truth their previous reporting
eporng —
lves!" The Israelis have no ernments had been willing
of
the
PLO
—
but
in
prep-
— and then the lying was
01.11°‘
to admit the few thousand
,s,._
reporting based upon such
aration for another ma jor other intention, once the job PLO terrorists? What if
directed against our stunning ignorance of
is
done.
The
sequence,
how-
.-"4>.
'
war in the Middle East.
enemies. With Israel De-
religious and acader-
religious/ideological reali-
After three weeks
s of total ever, is fundamental: first spokesmen vocal for
fense Forces action in Leba- ties in Lebanon, reporting
t
the
PLO,
then
the
Syrians,
silence ,
non, all restraint Irp,s,
Palestinians" had w.-/-
,,
been so slavishly addicted to
Kremlin to and finally the Israelis.
%
squeaked out the
a "warning"
abandoned.
corned the opportunity to
ti
Marxist termin ologies and
‘
The
job,
as
the
Israelis
see
the
U.S.
— which President
Space does not allow ex- typologies.
separate the issue of the
it,
is
to
free
Lebanon
of
the
Reagan promptly rejected.
tensive documentation, but
Why did all Lebanese
Brezhnev's reference to 'the PLO terrorists and open the human needs of ordinary
three easily verified facts look upon the Israeli strike
calls of those who are way for a peace treaty on the people from the question of
give the measure of it. First, at the PLO as a police action
perishing in Lebanon at the northern border like that the survival of the PLO
apparatus and its criminal
newspapers have been full rather than an "invasion"?
hands of the Israeli invad- with Egypt on the south. activities?
of statistics of "600,000
The
job,
as
the
Soviets
and
PLO:
Unwanted,
ers" was also rejected as
homeless Lebanese." Fact:
What if President Re-
e-azng Factor
pious hypocrisy by Israelis fellow-travelers see it is to
there have never been even DStbilii
keep
that
from
happenin
agan
had had strong
g.
and
Lebanese
alike.
The truth is that since the
before PLO terror drove
The major war which was With the PLO holding the backing from Congress
over 100,000 people from PLO was driven out of Jor-
..,,,-
being prepared would have western sector of Beirut in policing a PLO with-
their homes in the fiefdom dan, after an attempted as-
REV.
LITTELL
cost greatly in lives and hostage, the Communist drawal from the section
Arafat and his 1970 invad- sassination of King Hussein
ers established, more than and failed coup in Amman, 98,000 were killed and property, as did the civil network is pulling out all of Beirut they had
310;000 total population in it has been a volatile and 300,000 rendered homeless. war of 1975-1976. But the stops to save by propaganda hijacked and held hos-
the area of recent Israeli ac- de-stabilizing factor in
In the recent Israeli police PLO, even aided by and diplomacy what was tage? What if West Euro-
pean "statesmen" had
Lebanon as well as interna- action, taken to defend Is- campmates from the inter- lost in battle. •
tion.
All over Europe and shown more principle
Second, a prominent tionally. And today, in try- raeli lives, but welcomed by national terrorist network
America ad hoc commit- and less of the spirit of
newspaper ing to rescue a section of Be- Lebanese of all shades of who were in training in
American
termed Sidon "another irut the PLO is holding hos- opinion as well, the Lebanon — from West tees have been formed to appeasement?
Germany
What if Soviet Russia had
(Baader- sponsor advertisements
Dresden," and wrote of "to- tage, the biggest single Lebanese police have re-
"
the Lebanese opted for detente , cut its los-
tal destruction" of the third problem is that none of the ported 10,112 dead civi- Meinhof), Italy (Red to save
Palestinian ses and reined in its client
Brigades), IRA provos, etc., and
largest city in Lebanon. governments earlier so lians.
The Israel Defense Forces was incapable of mounting peoples," etc. Needless to state, Syria? What if the
Fact: as I have seen with my eager to use the PLO ter-
own eyes, Sidon is intact. rorists against Israel is will- report 866 innocent (i.e, major military resistance. say, no Lebanese leaders Communists and fellow-
Accomplished rather in kil- are listed, and a study of travelers had been less ef-
There are signs of destruc- ing to run the risk of giving Lebanese) civilians dead,
advertisements fective in pushing the
with 283 Israelis killed in ling unarmed civilians, the
tion along the highway east them haven.
their last act is, appropri- shows the usual three or theme "Israeli withdrawal
With the Syrian invasion action as soldiers.
of the city, where there was
sporadic resistance from of Lebanon during the
Contrary to the im- ately, to hold a section of the four apparatchiks of long first" (desired by no
stiffen-
pression built up in this modern city hostage, while standing, plus a gaggle of Lebanese), thereby stiffen-
bunkers and ordinary build- 1975-1976 civil war, "Leba-
ch men and aca- ing PO
L ilatoriness
d
in
ings on either side of the non" as a political entity country, the smashing of their friends try to salvage
churchmen
w ho let their ne goti ations?
diplomacy what the PLO denims
great coastal road leading came to an end. Syria had the PLO as a military
names be used, geese to
After weeks of delaying
from the border to Beirut. never accepted the exist- force was a clean-cut, ef- lost on the battlefield.
whom Lenin applied the tactics by the PL() and their •
The
Lebanese,
of
course,
ence
of
an
independent
ficiently
executed,
rela-
Third, Damour, a vil-
appropriate term: "use- supporters, the IDF has
lage and control point Lebanon, never exchanged Lively easy police action get the picture. One Druze fl idiots.
moved to end the impasse.
leader,
with
his
army
sup-
by
ambassadors
with
it.
Syria
the
Israelis.
Only
the
strategically situated
Thus the lies about what And now we shall see again
south of Beirut, is pic- has always considered PLO and the Syrians, posedly an ally of Arafat, has happened and is hap- the great costs which must
tured in photographs and Lebanon a part of "Greater both being forces that announced the PLO was pening in Lebanon are be paid if terrorist move-
words as a scene of Syria," and has several don't belong in Lebanon, finished in Lebanon. The given wider circulation. ments are not dealt with in
other chief Druze leader,
Israeli-made destruction. times — once stopped by offered opposition.
Fortunately, President Re- time, when they have first
with
his army also intact
20
,000
American
marines
The
Israeli
action
de-
Fact: the inhabitants of
said
the
Israelis
"took
the
agan
has shown that he shown in theory and prac-
ordered
in
by
President
serves
to
be
ranked
with
the
Damour, once a Christian
understands who the PLO tice what their program is
village, were slaughtered Eisenhower — tried a rescue at Entebbe and the only possible action."
— whether the Nazi Part
Chriti
y
san warlords terrorists are and whose
smashing of the Iraqi atom
during the 1975-1976 civil take-over before this.
p u rposes the y serve — not program of 1920 or the PLO y
have
openly
welcomed
After
the
civil
war
the
bomb
factory
as
a
piece
of
war and a PLO artillery
the Israelis', not the Covenant of 1964.
and anti-aircraft concen- several warlords, with expert surgery deserving the Israelis. One of them Lebanese people's, and not
Last Sunday after church,
sent
an
official
letter
the
admiration
and
praise
of
established.
their
private
armies,
like
tration
even the Palestinians'.
up in the country, a farm
When the Israeli forces the PLO and the Syrian the civilized world, as well from his government to
The police action of the Is- woman commented on the
took the area they found, invaders, divided the - as the thanks of the Foreign Minister Claude raeli forces has created the highly-prejudiced media at-
Che_ysson,
the
French
country
up
into
mini-
Lebanese,
which
has
been
among other things, that
appeasement expert, say- best potential in many tacks on Israel. "After all,
the PLO had used the states and sovereign forthcoming.
in among other things, years for removing the ter- they're doing it for us too
enclaves.
But
a
desperate
campaign
-
once-beautiful church as
There ceased to be a na- is now under wayi , using "You denounced the Is- rorism factor from the Mid- . . .," she said. "Thank God
repair garage, with
tional
government: taxa- downtown Beirut as hos- raeli invasion of Lebanon dl East scene. Hopefully, they have a government
targets for shooting at the
tion,
police
forces and mil- tage, to save the PLO ter- but said 'nothing about neither the Communist with guts to act!" to this:
altar location.
itary establishments, edu- rorists. For the second loser the Syrian and Palesti- network nor the appease AMEN!
The use of scenes from the cation and other marks of
the Israeli police action nian occupation of Leba-
civil
civil war of 1975-1976, dur- government, even licensing has been Soviet Russia, and non over years," and said
ing which there was in fact of automobiles and drivers , no one in the Middle East further that Cheysson
massive destruction and ceased to function on a na- failed to notice the great showed "concern for the
loss of life, has been corn- tional basis.
superiority of U.S. tanks fate of the PLO but none
more in stories and adver-
For seven years "Leba- and airplanes (manned by for the fate of the
tisements hostile to the Is-non" was a political jungle, Israelis) over Russian tanks
raeli action of recent weeks. with the results well-known and airplanes (manned by suffer from the PLO."
Resistance to the Israeli to scholars who study ter- Syrians).
Archbishop George Had-
forces did not come from any rorism: if terrorism is notSyria is the major client dad of Tyre, a city which had
of the Lebanese formations - suppressed and its centers state of Soviet Russia in the been occupied and ter-
- not from the Lebanese shattered, in politics as in area. Moreover, the Israelis rorized by the PLO, said
national army, not from the monetary policy the lesser discovered sufficient Rus- publicly what earlier the
PLO would have assassi-
nated him for expressing:
"Until the Israel army ar-
rived, Lebanon was a sick
country. Despite the dam-
age caused when the Is-
raelis came into Tyre, I be-
lieve the town will now be
well again. I walk around
During the fighting in Lebanon, Israel captured
Tyre and see how the lives of
enough weapons from the PLO to equip a 400,000-man
the people have changed
army. These Soviet-made light anti-aircraft guns and
within 24 hours. Now they
rifles were part of the captured materiel. _
Prof. of Religion
Temple University
.
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