THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
TV Tried to Straighten Record
Eric Silver of the Man-
American
every
from chester Guardian has put
President
In the heat of media hys- Eisenhower through Re- it succinctly: "TV found
teria over the military erup- agan, is the source of an in this war the drama, the
tion in' Beirut last summer, estimate of 60,000 people excitement, and tragedy
an outfit calling itself the killed in Lebanon in civil without the subtleties
Ad Hoc Committee In.De- strife there among Chris- that were necessary to
fense Of The Palestinian tians, Moslems, Druze, understand the war. The
And Lebanese People ran a and PLO forces between end result was the TV
War, more so than even
propaganda ad that was 1975 and 1981.
On the evening of Jan. 7, Vietnam."
scare-headed: "40,000
Moreover, with a huge
people killed and 700,000 millions of Americans had
the opportunity of obtaining corps of 300 newsgatherers
homeless."
Quick scanners of the ad a rather well-balanced pic- covering the war from Israel
naturally would conclude ture story of the massacre in and another 300 covering
that such a giant volume of Lebanon when ABC news from Beirut (right next door
pillage, murder and correspondent Bill Redeker to Yasir Arafat, one of
mayhem was the work of narrated an hour-long shrewdest manipulators of
the Israel armed forces. Ac- documentary. This report the media since the days of
tually, in view of the fact estimated murder victims Josef Goebbels), the report-
that no strong, central in the Sabra and Shatila ing was surely destined to
Lebanese bureau kept the refugee camps at 800. It at- get out of kilter.
These essential facts and
casualty records, Lebanese tributed blame to "the wan-
officials themselves say the ton brutality of the Chris- many more of great signifi-
exact toll may never be tian militiamen; negligence cance have been reported
by senior Israeli military recently in a splendid re-
known.
Again, John de Salis, officers; the weakness of the sume by the National
head of the International Lebanese army and gov- Jewish Community Rela-
Red Cross team in Lebanon, ernment; indifference of tions Advisory Council de-
has said: "Anyone who gives Arab nations; and finally, to tailing interviews garnered
you figures has to be 'mak- the failure of an anxious by a fact-finding mission to
American government, the Middle East sponsored
ing them up."
by the NJCRAC. Therein
More to the point, the which broke its word."
A footnote to the refer- one reads that satellite
Foreign Policy Associa-
tion, which has won ence to U.S. involvement 'facilities transmitted tales
endorsement for its held that senior U.S. dip- of the horror instantly, that
scholarly work from lomats were said to have networks came up with
told the ABC newsgather- enormous sums for cover-
ers that U.S. troops were age, that "editors wanted
withdrawn prematurely be- `bang-bang' stories."
And "bang-bang stories"
cause Washington didn't
want the American public were what they got. One de-
to be reminded of Vietnam. stined to be long remem-
What happened in Beirut bered was the widely dis-
was far different from what seminated photo of an al-
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in Vietnam, espe- leged armless baby circu-
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reporthig, the Israelis, who
and shortlived.
were blamed for the mutila-
tion, tracked down the
four-month-old child and
the nurse and learned that
the total injury was a
broken arm.
Those who missed the
ABC documentary are true
losers. Those absorbing the
drama objectively must
conclude that the Lebanese
Phalangists, seeking re-
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Egyptian newspaper Al
Ahram claims that Israel
shot down 83 Syrian jets
during the Lebanese fight-
ing because Syria wanted to
get rid of obsolete planes
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