20 Friday, February 18, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
El Al Blamed
for Tourist Drop
Haddad's Militia Extends Its Control to Litani River
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
The Central Bureau of
Statistics figures show that
the war in Lebanon last
summer was not the cause
of the drop in tourism to Is-
rael.
According to the bureau,
tourism to Israel dropped
for several, years after the
1973 Yom Kippur War, but
tourism began falling in the
present cycle in 1981, well
before the war in Lebanon.
Observers believe that
labor problems at El Al Is-
rael Airlines was the major
factor in declining tourism.
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SIDON, Lebanon (JTA)
— Maj. Saad Haddad,
leader of the Israel-backed
Christian Free Lebanon
Forces, has extended the
area controlled by his
militia to virtually all of
south Lebanon from the Is-
rael border to the Litani
River, an area far larger
than the border strip he
originally controlled.
At the invitation of the Is-
rael Defense Force, Haddad
held an impromptu press
conference in this Lebanese
seaport on Tuesday, the
country's fourth largest
city, for members of the
American Jewish Press
Association/ United Jewish
Appeal mission travelling
in Lebanon.
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get them (Haddad's forces)
to take care of Israel's
northern border because it
is good for all of us." He said
Haddad had demonstrated
an ability to unite Leba-
non's diverse elements to
"stop killing each other and
work together against the
PLO."
The IDF spokesman said,
"We think it's time for him
to help us do our job." He
added, "It's a question of
principle. We must try to
Haddad said he was "not
too optimistic" about the
withdrawal of foreign
troops from Lebanon. "The
political situation is too
NEW YORK — Pro-Arab
propaganda is "one of
Argentine Jewry's most
serious problems," accord-
ing to Luis Comisarenco,
the acting president of
DAIA, the Argentine
Jewish community's um-
brella organization.
Comisarenco, a vice
president of the DAIA re-
sponsible for Christian-
Jewish relations, told lead-
ers of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith that
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velopment is increasing ac-
ceptive ears because of ceptance of material pre-
"endemic anti-Semitism pared by Jewish organiza-
among 30 percent of Argen- tions on Christianity's
tinians." Jewish heritage. He de-
Speaking in Spanish to a scribed as "a breakthrough"
meeting of ADL's Commit- the distribution in Catholic
tee on Interfaith Affairs churches and schools of a
here, Comisarenco said that Spanish version of booklet,
DATA's educational efforts "Abraham Our Father in
to counteract Arab prop- Faith," which was prepared
aganda are proving effec- by the _ Archdiocese of
tive. He asserted that Philadelphia in cooperation
greater understanding of with ADL.
Israel's policies and actions
Comisarenco
em-
was being developed among
Jews as well as Christians. phasized, however, that the
He said that for the first situation in Argentina re-
time in the nation's history mains "difficult and com-
rabbis are beginning to plex" because of a reluc-
serve as chaplains in the tance among some Jews and
Argentine armed forces. Christians to establish in-
Another significant de- terfaith relationships.
ignation of Defense Minis-
ter Ariel Sharon. "This is Is-
rael's problem," he said.
Asked about the dis-
covery of some 15 more
bodies in and around Si-
don, Haddad observed:
"Many people still have
weapons. I- hope such
things will stop. It is not
to the benefit of anyone in
Lebanon that this ven-
detta go on. This is a real
crime."
The IDF spokesman
elaborated on the killings.
"There is a distortion in the
way the deaths have been
reported," he said. "There
was no discovery of a great
mound of bodies at one time.
They were found singly over
a period of one month. These
people have been killing
each other for years," he
added, noting that "There
are still armed gangs roving
the area. Although the car-
rying of arms is outlawed,
there are many weapons
available."
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complicated. I don't think
the Syrians will pull out,"
he said. He cited the intro-
duction of new Soviet-made
SAM-5 missiles as a sign
the Syrians are not consid-
ering an imminent with-
drawal from Lebanon.
Haddad expressed satis-
faction that his forces had
been cleared by the Israeli
commission of inquiry of
any involvement in the west
Beirut refugee camps mas-
sacre. But he refused to
comment on the forced res-
Argentine Bias a Major Problem
They were assembled in
the courtyard of the IDF
compound here, flanked by
a dozen freshly painted
Sherman tanks provided
Haddad's forces by Israel.
With an IDF spokes-
man, identified only as
Maj. Shlomo, standing
by, Haddad, responding
to questions, told the
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American Jewish jour-
nalists that the presence
of the tanks represented
"a redeployment of
forces." He was referring
obviously to his pro-
nouncement, made hours
later, that he was
broadening his base of
operations.
recent emergence of what
appears to be a well-
organized campaign of viru-
lent anti-Semitism in the
city of Basel near the Ger-
man border.
Its targets are not only
Jews but non-Jewish
families who have Jewish
friends. The campaign is
aimed particularly against
faculty and students of the
medical school in Basel,
Jewish and non-Jewish.
Vicious anti-Semitic slo-
gans have been daubed on
the walls of the local
synagogue, the Jewish
cemetery, public telephone
booths and on the walls of
underpasses near the uni-
versity.
Several prominent
members of the Jewish
community and their
non-Jewish friends have
received anonymous let-
ters or telephoned death
threats or anonymous
calls telling them that
their sons or daughters
are' dead.
Some of the slogans read,
"Jews Out"; "Jews Are
Swine"; "Auschwitz was in-
vented by the Jews." On the
bulletin board of the medi-
cal school faculty, someone
wrote: "Jews, sons of prosti-
tutes, out of here."
The campaign has been
described as without prece-
dent in Switzerland and the
Jewish community is deeply
concerned. There was a
bomb scare at the medical
school.
Jewish students have
been advised not to attend a
faculty party next week be-
cause their lives may be in
danger.
community in Basel, said
there have been a few
anti-Semitic incidents in
the city since Israel's in-
vasion of Lebanon last
summer, but they were
primitive.
He suggested that there
might be a connection be-
tween this outblirst and the
50th anniversary of the
Nazis' ascension to power in
Germany.
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