16 Fhilay, January 21,1984
THE DEfiRIT IEWI ~ I NEWS
Mobutu Plans
Israel Visit
AFTER INVENTORY
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Zaire
President Mobutu Sese
Seko has accepted an invi-
tation to visit Israel, accord-
ing to Israeli reporters who
accompanied Israeli
President Chaim Herzog on
his state visit to Africa this
week.
The invitation was ex-
tended and accepted at a
meeting between the two
presidents Sunday, as Her-
zog wound up his five-day
visit to Zaire. No date for
the Mobutu visit has yet
been set.
Herzog left Zaire for a
short state visit to Liberia,
where he held talks with
President Samuel Doe, re-
ceived an honorary law de-
gree and toured an army
barracks and a large rubber
plantation.
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Top Druze Condemns Gemayel
for Reneging on May 17 Accord
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
leading Israeli Druze de-
nounced Lebanese Amin
Gemayel for reneging on
the May 17 Lebanese-
Israeli agreement and ques-
tioned the dependability of
the Phalangists as allies of
Israel.
Zeidan Atashi, chairman
of the Israel Druze National
Council's Task Force on the
Lebanese, told a press con-
ference at the Jewish Com-
munity Relations Council of
New York last week that he
would like to see Israel and
the United States support a
different Lebanese
President acceptable to all
the warring factions in
Lebanon.
He claimed that Geinayel
is unacceptable to the Druze
community as well as to
most Lebanese. Gemayel,
Atashi pointed out, even
now is not president of
Lebanon. "Syria controls 40
percent of the Lebanese
territory, .Israel about 30
percent, Gemayel doesn't
even control western Be-
irut," Atashi contended.
All Gemayel controls is
a stronghold of Maronite
eastern Beirut, and this is
"only through the Ameri-
can security provided
him," he said.
Atashi explained that the
Lebanese Parliament,
which is "overwhelmed by
Maronites and Phalan-
gists," was the Lebanese
authority to accept and
admit the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization in 1970.
"It was not the Druze com-
munity," he said.
Then, in 1975, when the
PLO "contested the
authority and property of
those Phalangists," the
Phalange extended' "very
cordial invitations to the
Syrians," so that the Sy-
rians might rescue the
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Lebanese from the same the Phalange, toward the
PLO presence. With the Israeli government," pre-
"chaos resulting" from the venting any Israeli contact
occupation of both forces, with the non-Phalangist
"The same group invited the non-Maronite movements
Israelis to rescue them from in Lebanon, the initial Is-
both sides," Atashi said. raeli policy toward the
Atashi, a former member Lebanese Druze was "very
of Knesset and a former Is- unkind," Atashi claimed.
rael Consul in New York, is The task force has sought to
on tour of the U.S. to clarify "offset the embarrassment"
the status of the Israeli the Israeli Druze felt.
The task force works
Druze community, their
history and their contribu- by putting intensive
tions. He emphasized that pressure on the Israeli
he is not seeking to inter- government through
vene in American affairs, press conferences,
but is looking for ways to demonstrations, and
make America more credi- other lobbying activities,
Atashi pointed out. The
ble in the Middle EAst.
He said that he "loves demonstrations, he said,
and admires" the U.S. are "not for reasons of in-
and "it hurts me to see the equality or negligence
Americans killed for no toward the Druze com-
future benefits," a refer- munity of Israel, "but for
ence to the servicemen the "future of our breth-
who have been killed in ren."
Drawing a parallel be-
Beirut during their stint
as part of the multina- tween Jewish efforts on be-
half of Soviet and Syrian
tional force.
Atashi said he foresees a Jewry, and underlining Is-
bloodbath involving local raeli Druze support for such
Lebanese factions the min- rescue activities, Atashi
ute the Marines are with- asked: "Why can't I do the
drawn. But following the same thing — to rescue my
bloodbath, Lebanon "will brethren — in this great
decide what to do via its own democracy, Israel?" He de-
fended the Israeli Druze as
people," he said.
Discussing Syrian ambi- "very authentic Israelis,
tions in Lebanon, Atashi neither extremist nor lef-
said they are aimed at re- tist."
Atashi claimed that as a
covering "Greater Syria" by
challenging the weak party result of the task force's ac-
in the area, namely, Leba- tivities, there is currently a
non. The Syrian Nationalist dialogue going on between
Party has existed inside the Israelis and the Druze in
Lebanon for the last 30 Lebanon, and that its ac-
years, he said, and main- tivities have "softened the
situation and bridged the
tains paid agitators there.
He predicted that "We gap, in many cases, between
will not have an easy task our brothers and the state of
regarding Syrian with- Israel."
He pointed out that one
drawal." One reason for
this, he opened, is that the of the sore points be-
Syrians, who were invited tween the Israeli Druze
to Lebanon by a central and the Israeli govern-
government, do not now feel ment had been the con-
that Gemayel represents a tinued refusal on the part
united, centralized of Israel to act on the re-
peated requests by the
authority.
As for the Israeli occu- Israeli Druze that Israel
pation of Lebanon, eject the three Phalangist
Atashi said he favors a battalions from the Druze
pullback from all popu- areas of the Shouf moun-
lated areas even if tains which are killing
pockets of terrorists re- the Druze there.
Atashi said the Israelis
main there. He said Is-
raelis, who are "sensitive were unable to do this be-
people," cannot them- cause "it would destroy the
selves continue to eradi- bridges between them and
cate terrorists. That the Lebanese authorities."
should be the task of the The Lebanese Druze then
went ahead and fought the
local population.
He explained that "dip- Phalangists on their own,
lomacy allows for a lot of he said, but at a very high
exits" and suggested that, price to themselves.
given the situation "as it is,"
it might be in Israel's inter- TAU
est to offer military help to
the Lebanese Druze corn-
TEL AVIV — Scientists
munity just as the Syrians
at Tel Aviv University have
are offering theirs.
embarked on a research
Discussing the Israeli project aimed at biological
Druze task force on the control of the sweet potato
Lebanese, which was whitefly, a pest which has
formed in October 1982, caused extensive damage to
Atashi said its goals are to cotton and vegetable crops
"save, support, sympathize both in Israel and the
(with) and rescue our Druze American Southwest.
brethren from any immi-
The major objective of the
nent danger to their exist- project, headed by Prof. Dan
ence" in Lebanon, and to re- Gerling of Faculty of Life
scue Israel's image in the Sciences, is to discover
eyes of the Lebanese Druze. which of the whitefly's
"Because of the lack of re- natural enemies can most
sponsibility or blackmail by effectively combat the pest.
Aims at
Crops Pest