30 Friday, September 23, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli Druze Protest Alleged U.S. Intervention in Lebanon
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — A de-
legation of Israeli Druze
leaders met with U.S. Am-
bassador Samuel Lewis to
protest alleged American
intervention against Druze
in Lebanon fighting the
Beirut government.
The delegation, headed
by the spiritual leader of the
Israeli Druze, Sheikh Amin
Tarif, contended that U.S.
support for President Amin
Gemayel of Lebanon was a
"one-sided intervention in
Lebanese politics."
An embassy spokesman
said later that Lewis had
stressed that the U.S. was
aiding the official, legiti-
mate government of Leba-
non, not supporting any fac-
tion in that country. While
the meeting was in prog-
ress, about 100 Druze de-
monstrated outside the em-
bassy carrying banners and
chanting slogans warnin
the U.S. against a "second
Vietnam."
In Paris, France dis-
sociated itself from the
tougher American at-
titude in Lebanon and
said its forces will con-
tinue to avoid a confron-
tation with the Druze and
Moslem forces in the
Shouf mountains.
Foreign Minister Claude
Cheysson condemned the
American approach, saying
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that shelling Druze posi-
tions in the Shouf "is obvi-
ously not the best method to
reach a political solution."
The American armed re-
sponse in the Shouf and
around Beirut has been fol-
lowed by French calls for
placing the multinational
force under United Nations
control.
Meanwhile, leaders of the
Druze and Christian com-
munities in Israel have
joined forces to prevent the
spread of the ethnic and re-
ligious strife in Lebanon to
Israel.
In a related development,
Chief of Staff Gen. Moshe
Levy conceded that Israel
had "not taken into consid-
eration . . . sufficiently"
the possibility that Syrian
and Palestine Liberation
Organization forces would
join with Druze forces in the
Shouf mountains to fight
against the Lebanese army
when it was decided to rede-
ploy the Israel Defense
Force to safer lines along
the Awali River in south
Lebanon.
Interviewed on Israel
television at the end of
Yom Kippur, Levy re-
peated that the IDF fully
expected the warring
Druze and Christians to
resume fighting once the
IDF left the Shouf and al-
though "we had done ev-
erything in our power to
coordinate the with-
drawal and bring about a
settlement before the
predictable — and pre-
dictably cruel — war
would break out."
But, he added, the details
of the process of renewed
fighting and their nuances
were not appreciated, nor
was the influence of the
Palestinians and the Sy-
rians.
"To my regret," Levy said,
"these factors were not
taken into consideration, or
not sufficiently absorbed be-
fore our redeployment when
everybody was talking
about redeployment and
that it should be carried out,
and perhaps it was not con-
venient to grasp that this
redeployment would have a
price in this respect."
In Paris, Lebanese Presi-
dent Amin Gemayel ac-
cused Israel and Syria of
"using local quislings and
mercenaries" to try to split
up the country between
them.
Speaking on French
television, Gemayel, once
believed to be pro-Israel,
was as critical about Is-
rael as he was about
Syria. He said the two
countries, "the two
super-powers in the Mid-
dle East (Israel and
Syria) want the same
thing: to rule over part of
Lebanon."
Gemayel, used the
French name "Laval" for
"Quisling," when describ-
ing the "men hired by Israel
and Syria to do their work."
Pierre Laval was prime
minister of France between
1942 and 1944 and directed
Marshal Petain's policy of
active collaboration with
the Nazis. He was executed
in 1945 after a French court
found him guilty of high
treason.
Gemayel was careful in
his interview not to put
Druze leader Walid
Jumblatt in this category.
He said: "I know Walid well.
He is not a blood-thirsty
person not a bad patriot. He
is probably manipulated by
a foreign power (Syria)."
Meanwhile, PLO leader
Yasir Arafat, who returned
to northern Lebanon, called
for "the immediate evacua-
tion" of the multi-national
force.
The Syrians also called
for the withdrawal of the
multinational force and
warned the United States
that Syria might "be forced
to respond" should the U.S.
troops in Beirut continue to
fire on the Syrian-backed
Druze militias.
Gemayel said the fight-
ing between the
Lebanese and Syrian-
backed Moslem militias
is a "sideshow" aimed at
preventing the with-
drawal of Syrian troops
from Lebanon.
Gemayel, whose inter-
view was taped for the
ABC-TV "This Week With
David Brinkley" program,
said it is "clear" that the
"Syrians are behind" the
fighting now going on. He
said the result is that "no-
body is talking" about the
withdrawal of Foreign forces
from Lebanon but instead
are concentrating on the
current fighting.
The Lebanese President
said that if he were able to
sit down face to face with
Druze leader Jumblatt, "we
would be able to reach an
agreement in five minutes."
Jumblatt, in an interview
on the CBS-TV "Face the
Nation" program, while at-
tacking Gemayel, also indi-
cated he would be willing to
discuss with the Lebanese
president a political solu-
tion that would give more
power to the various Mos-
lem religious groups in
Lebanon. But he indicated
that there would have to be
a cease-fire first and that
the Lebanese army would
have to withdraw from the
Shouf mountains.
In Jerusalem, the
Cabinet met in a closed
session Sunday to dis-
cuss the worsening situa-
tion in Lebanon where
fierce fighting continues
in the Shouf mountains
and near Beirut between
Syrian-supported Druze
militias and the Christian
Phalangists, backed by
the Lebanese army and
its small air force.
The Cabinet convened as
a ministerial defense com-
mittee, meaning that its de-
liberations are classified
and the possibility of
"leaks" to the media re-
duced.
In another development,
the 500-member Dutch con-
tingent of the United Na-
tions Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) will be
withdrawn shortly and will
not be replaced.
1st Jewish Chaplain Named
at U.S. Military Academy
NEW YORK — Chaplain
(Maj.) Marc Alan Ab-
ramowitze has become the
first full-time Jewish chap-
lain at the U.s. Military
Academy at West Point,
N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn in 1945,
Chaplain Abramowitz has
lived most of his life in Val-
ley Stream, N.Y. Ordained
by the Rabbi Isaac Elcha-
nan Theological Seminary
of Yeshiva Uniyersity in
June 1970, Chaplain Ab-
ramowitz was ecclesiasti-
cally endorsed for service to
military personnel by the
JWB Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy in De-
cember 1971.
He received a bachelor's
degree from Yeshiva Uni-
versity in 1967 and a mas-
ter's degree from Yeshiva
Ferkauf Graduate School in
1970. He is a member of the
Rabbinical Council of
America.
The cornerstone of the
first Jewish chapel at the
United States Military
Academy was laid Tues-
day at ceremonies at-
tended by about 400 per-
sons.
A message from Presi-
dent Reagan hailed "the
contribution of citizens of
the Jewish faith who have
served with distinction in
every battle for freedom we
Americans have fought,"
from pre-Revolutionary
times to the present.
The message was read by
Herbert Amers, president of
MARC ABRAMOWITZ
the West Point Jewish
Chapel Fund which raised
$4.5 million of the $6 mill-
ion needed to build the
chapel which will be com-
pleted next year.
When completed, the
chapel will be a center for
religious worship, Judaica
studies and holiday obser-,
vances for the academy's
Jewish cadets, instructors,
post personnel and their
families. It will be open to
visitors as well and will
serve to familiarize non-
Jewish cadets with Jewish
customs, traditions and re-
ligious ritual.
Among Victims
PHILADELPHIA — Dr.
Allen and Lillian Kohn, a
Jewish couple from
Philadelphia, were among
the 269 people killed when a
Russian fighter plane shot
down a Korean jetliner
Sept. 1.