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Friday, July 15, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Birthday Marked
'Going All the Way' in Lebanon Goes Too Far
PARIS — Artist Marc
Chagall celebrated his 96th
birthday last week at his
home in St. Paul de Vence,
France.
By EZEKIEL LEIKIN
"Going All the Way —
Christian Warlords, Is-
raeli Adventurers and
the War in Lebanon" by
Jonathan C. Randal (Vik-
ing Press) is a readable,
often exciting account of
Lebanon's Civil War, the
dismemberment of a coun-
try once known as the
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In a racy, reportorial
style, the author offers a
vivid portrayal of the Chris-
tian warlords as ruthless,
manipulative and corrupt
"dynasties," each with its
own fiefdom, militia and
rules of conduct. He reaps
scorn upon the reckless and
senseless activities of the
ruling families — the Cha-
mouns, the Gemayels, the
Franjiehs — singling out
the Gemayels for special
condemnation and giving
the Druze chieftain
Jumblatt and other factions
operating in the periphery
only scant attention.
While Randal concedes
that the PLO set up a
state-within-a-state in
Lebanon, he genrally treats
the PLO with a detachment
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bordering on sympathy. His
chapters on Israel's Leba-
non campaign bristle with
condemnation of Israel's
"sinister" motives in initiat-
ing the "carnage," and he
indicts the Jewish state for
its Machiavellian collusion
with the Chamouns, and
principally the Gemayels,
as disruptive of the
Lebanese integrity Israel
has professed to uphold.
He is also critical of the
Syrians, who first sought
to help the Christians
against the onslaught of
the PLO and its radical
allies among the Shiites,
and then turned their
guns upon their erstwhile
allies, the Christians, lest
they become too strong
and less pliable to Syrian
dictates.
The author dredges up
Moshe Sharett's diaries,
published in 1950, which
purport to show Ben-
Gurion's "secret" schemes
to cooperate with and assist
the Maronite Christians,
generally sympathetic to Is-
rael, from being engulfed
and dominated by an in-
creasingly growing Moslem
majority.
(This disclosure assumed
special relevance with the
publication of an article in
the Jerusalem Post on July
2 by Benny Morris, who had
allegedly uncovered
Foreign Ministry docu-
ments, recently de-
classified, showing an
Israel-Phalangist relation-
ship going back to 1948.
This "relationship," the
documents reveal, never
developed beyond the
talking-stage.)
Randal's predisposition to
"expose" Israel as an ag-
gressive, power-hungry
state is glaringly in evi-
dence when he conjures up
a conspiratorial arrange-
ment between Syria and Is-
rael to partition Lebanon
into Syrian and Israeli
spheres of military control
and "jurisdiction."
As the senior foreign
correspondent of the
Washington Post, whose
coverage of Israel has
been notoriously hostile,
Randal has apparently
chosen to toe the line
charted by his superiors.
The author is at his re-
portorial best in describ-
ing his personal
encounters and experi-
ences with the major
characters involved in
Lebanon's savage cycle
of violence and retribu-
tion. Equally interesting
is his recital of the chec-
kered history of the
Maronit,es, who claim to
be the descendants of the
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mension of timeliness and,
proudly of their "historic
certainly, saleability, the
association" with the
author rushed to Lebanon to
Crusaders.
cover the war.
-
His portrayal of the ero-
The "added dimension"
sion and collapse of Leba-
turned out to be a bitterly
non's central authority,. as
biased anti-Israel diatribe
the respective overlords ex-
in contradistinction to the
panded their turf and original chapters on the
hegemony and proceeded to
Lebanese Christians, which
usurp piecemeal the func- is a work of merit and sub-
tions and responsibilities of stance.
government is starkly
The author makes no
realistic. Randal's claim bones about his feelings
that in 1976 "Israel suc- toward Israel. "I was furious
ceeded in setting the rules with the Israelis," he writes,
by which the game has been
"and even angrier with the
played in Lebanon ever U.S. government which
since" is a bit of tortured
knowingly allowed its Is-
reasoning unrelated to the
raeli clients to get away
facts.
with large-scale murder
Randal's chapters on Is- . . . " etc. In a "note to the
rael's Lebanon campaign reader," Randal
hues closely to the distorted "graciously" admits that
blueprint adopted by most "this book is not meant as a
of the media — a pattern de- definitive history of what
signed to exaggerate the has happened in Lebanon."
"devastation," inflate the His hatchet-job having been
casualties and misrepresent completed and offered to the
Israel's war objectives.
public, the Senior Foreign
The relations between the Correspondent of the Wash-
Christian overlords and Is- ington Post deigns to add:
rael is depicted as one mar- "That is a task that awaits
red by mutual frustrations not a Westerner, but a
and misread signals. Apart Lebanese, a Palestinian, an
from bits and pieces of in- Israeli or a Syrian."
telligence information
In "Going All the Way",
chanelled to Israel, the the author seems to have
militias' participation in lost his bearings along the
the Lebanon campaign was way.
negligible, notwithstanding
Ariel Sharon's insistence Injuries Result -
that they assume a more
active role in fighting the from Collision
PLO.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
Bashir Gemayel, the bus carrying kindergarten
volume avers, resisted children collided with a
playing the role of "Quisl- truck outside Tel Aviv.
ing" lest he forfeit his
A radio report said two
claim to Lebanon's adults and two children
presidency.
were seriously injured and
Randal's book was ini- that one of the children may
tially conceived as a work not survive. The rest sus-
on the Lebanese Christians; tained light to moderate in-
this part was all but com- juries.
pleted when Israel launched
the "Peace for Galilee" op-
A proverb has three char-
eration in June 1982. To acteristics: few words, good
give the book an added di- sense and a fine image. .
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