THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Lebanon Forcing Israel to Turn to Haddad?
By DAVID LANDAU
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel's relations with the
Christian Phalangists in
Lebanon have deteriorated
of late and Jerusalem seems
to be concentrating now on
increasing the power and
influence of its ally, Maj.
Saad Haddad, leader of the
Christian militia, in south
Lebanon.
Pundits here and abroad
are uncertain whether this
is a play to prod President
Amin Gemayel, leader of
the Phalangist party, to ac-
cept Israel's terms for a
withdrawal and security
agreement or whether it
means the Israelis have
given up on the Gemayel
government and are follow-
ing a contingency plan to
unilaterally establish a se-
curity zone in south Leba-
non with the help of Had-
dad.
The growing sense of es-
trangement from the
Phalangists, Israel's ally
against the Palestinians
and Moslem leftists, seems
to stem from a feeling here
that they could have
exerted more pressure on
Gemayel to conclude an ac-
cord with Israel.
The rift with the
Phalangists surfaced
about 10 days ago after
Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon returned froin
what he described as a
tough meeting with the
veteran Phalange leader,
Pierre Gemayel, in Be-
irut. The elder Gemayel is
the father of Amin_ and
the late Bashir Gemayel,
Lebanese President-
elect, who was assassi-
nated last September.
Sharon told the Cabinet a
week ago -that he had
warned Pierre Gemayel
that Amin Gemayel could
hardly be expected to gov-
ern Lebanon if he took his
orders from Syria and Saudi
Arabia. Israel has been
charging publicly that the
Syrians and Saudis were
pressuring the Lebanese
President to resist the kind
of accord Israel demands
with Lebanon.
Sharon's report to his
Cabinet colleagues leaked
to the press and-was taken
as an insult by- the Phalan-
Windsor Rabbi
to Speak for
Young Israel
Ms
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Rabbi Samuel Stollman,
professor of English litera-
ture at University of
Windsor, will be the fea-
tured speaker at the second
cultural breakfast series
sponsored by the Metropoli-
tan Council of Young Israel
9:30 a.m. Feb. 20 at Young
Israel of Oak-Woods.
Rabbi Stollman was a
member of a select group of
academicians who attended
a course on Holocaust liter-
ature last summer at Yad
Vashem in Jerusalem. He
will speak on that experi-
ence.
Minyan begins at 8:50
a.m. Breakfast will follow in
the Berris Meeting Room of
Young Israel of Oak-Woods.
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gist leader. Later the same
week, Pierre Gemayel de-
livered a stinging attack on
Israel, accusing Jerusalem
of collusion with Syria to
partition Lebanon into
spheres of influence. _
The situation is aggra-
vated by the continuing
bloody fighting between the
Phalangists and Druze vil-
lagers in the Shouf moun-
tain district of Lebanon, and
area under Israeli occupa-
tion. Sharon reportedly
warned Pierre Gemayel
that Israel would withdraw
its forces unilaterally to the
45 kilometer security zone
north of its border, leaving
the Phalangists and other
Christian factions to fight it
out with the Druze and Mos-
lem militias unaided by Is-
rael.
Sharon added fuel to
the fire by remarking at
Sunday's Cabinet meet-
ing that President
Gemayel should apply
"to his Syrian friends" to
put an end to the shelling
of Christian east Beirut
by Druze artillery posi-
tioned behind Syrian
lines. Responding to one
minister's question, Sha-
ron said the Israel De-
fense Force would cer-
tainly not intervene in
what was "a matter be-
tween the government of
Lebanon and the gov-
ernment of Syria."
the
Sunday,
On
Phalange-run "Radio Free
Lebanon" accused Israel for
the first time of openly aid-
ing the Druze. "ISraeli
forces are preventing our
forces from confronting at-
tacks mounted against us
by Druze Socialists in
Aley," the radio said. Aley,
once a popular mountain re-
sort, lies astride the main
Beirut-Damascus highway.
The Phalange, radio report
indicated that the Druze
had overrun the town.
At the Israel-Lebanon-
U.S. meeting at Khalde,
Antoine Fatale, head of
the Lebanese delegation,
said his government held
the IDF responsible for
what was happening in
Aley.
The rift between Israel
and the Phalangists and
other Christian elements in
Beirut and central Lebanon
was widened further by Is-
rael's energetic efforts to
build up Haddad. The Is-
raelis appear to be trying to
coalesce all elements in
south Lebanon, Christian
and Moslem, under Had-
dad's leadership.
Most villagers in the
south are Shiite Moslems
who have a militia of
their own, Al Amal. But
the Israelis have been
working behind the
scenes to foster harmony
between the Shiites and
Haddad's Christians.
A public meeting was
held Sunday in Koleila, a
village south of Tyre, where
some 800 south Lebanese
businessmen and other not-
ables founded an "organiza-
tion of residents of south
Lebanon" which called for a
peace treaty with Israel.
They demanded, how-
ever, that Israel allow all
south Lebanese who fled the
region in recent years to re-
turn home and that non-
PLO inmates of the Al
Ansar detention camp be re-
leased. They also declared
their support for Haddad's
militia and urged local
people to enlist in it. Accord-,
ing to media reports, the
public meeting was guarded
by Israeli troops.
A similar organization
has been set up in Nabatiya,
the largest town in the east-
ern region of south Leba-
non.
Meanwhil, in Washing-
ton, the State Depart-
ment welcomed as a "pos-
itive development" re-
ports that Israel has ar-
ranged a peace agree-.
ment between Christians
and Druze who have been
fighting around Aley.
The report from Khalde
quoted the commander of
Israeli forces in the Beirut
WJC Unanimously Backs Israel
WASHINGTON — The
governing board of the
World Jewish Congress
ended its biennial meeting
last Friday by unanimously
adopting a resolution voic-
ing "full solidarity with the
state of Israel" and calling
for "unswerving support for
Israel, with Jerusalem as its
eternal and undivided capi-
tal, in her efforts to achieve
a just and lasting peace with
her neighbors."
In its resolution on Israel,
the World Jewish Congress
leaders asked "govern-
ments and the international
community to support di-
rect negotiations without
preconditions between Is-
rael and her neighbors as
the sole means for achieving
peace."
The resolution also
voiced support for "a
peace treaty between Is-
rael and Lebanon,"
which it said would lead
to "the evacuation of all
foreign forces, measures
to prevent the use of
Lebanese territory as a
terrorist base against Is-
rael and the establish-
ment of an adequate se-
curity zone in the south of
the country."
In another resolution, the
WJC delegates deplored the
decline of Jewish emigra-
tion for_the Soviet Union.
area, Gen. Amnon Lipkin,
as telling reporters that the
rightwing Christian
militias and the Druze Mos-
lems have agreed to keep
the peace and that Israel
added its signature to the
agreement.
Friday, February 11, 1983
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