THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Lebanon Forcing Israel to Turn to Haddad? By DAVID LANDAU • ► 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 lb 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. - 4 ;- 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 • TaMaROFF LeasinG CO 28585 TELEGRAPH RD. 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