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Israeli paratroopers demonstrated outside the Israel Defense Ministry
last month, holding a sign reading, We are sick of Lebanon." The
reserve unit has served four tours of duty - in Lebanon.
Jerusalem (JTA) — The Israeli
Cabinet on Sunday gave unanim-
ous approval to Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin's plans for
negotiating a "political-military"
solution leading to Israel's with-
drawal from south Lebanon. The
session was declared a meeting of
the Ministerial Defense Commit-
tee, meaning that its delibera-
tions could not be made public.
Rabin himself was plainly pleased
after the meeting, although he
had already won the endorsement
he needs at a meeting last week of
the "inner Cabinet," with only
Trade and Industry Minister
Ariel Sharon dissenting.
The Defense Minister outlined
Israel's terms for a "political-
military" solution in south Leba-
non in an interview with Yediot
Achronot. Rabin spOlce of a Syrian
commitment, to be given through
the United States, to refrain from
moving its army southwards in
the wake of an Israel Defense
Force withdrawal. The Syrians
would also be committed to pre-
venting PLO units from infiltrat-
ing from the area they hold
southwards towards the Israeli
border.
Rabin envisaged a narrow zone
abutting the border to be held by
the South Lebanon Army (SLA).
But in this zone, too, as well as in
the broader swath of territory to
the north of it, there would be a
United Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon (UNIFIL) presence, ac-
cording to Rabin's plans.
This was the first time he had
confirmed publicly that he was
prepared to enable UNIFIL to de-
ploy right up to Israel's borderline
— although he referred to this de-
ployment as a "symbolic
presence" and stressed that he
wanted the SLA to remain intact
and to remain in effective control
of the border area.
In the more northerly zone,
Rabin said he wanted UNIFIL —
to be duly reinforced from its pre-
sent complement of less than
6,000 — to deploy northwards up
to the Awali River line which is
now held by the IDF, and east-
wards up to the Syrian-Lebanese
borderline in the Bekaa Valley
where IDF units are now eye-ball
to eyeball with the Syrian army.
Rabin also envisaged the indi-
rect Syrian commitments being
given in indirect talks to be con-
ducted via the United States.
Assistant Secretary of State
Richard Murphy is scheduled to
return to the Mideast this week
for a second round of "explorat-
ory" meetings in Jerusalem, Be-
irut and Damascus. Rabin pre-
dicted a more intensified and
higher-profile American diploma-
tic effort once the Presidential
election was over.
A State Department spokes-
man in Washington responded
that the U.S. would not become
involved until there was a "nar-
rowing of the substantial dif-
ferences that now exist" between
Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Rabin has sought direct talks,
on the military level, between Is-
rael and Lebanon. He said these
talks could be held "under a UN
framework."
Rabin's aides stress that Israel
will not accept Lebanon's notion
that such talks be considered ses-
sions of the long-defunct Mixed
Armistice Commission, set up
under the 1949 Israel-Lebanon
armistice agreement. Israel had
held ever since the Six-Day War
that the armistice agreement and
the regime it created are dead and
buried. The present Israeli gov-
ernment adheres to that position.
The Defense Minister made it
clear both in the weekend inter-
view and in the "inner Cabinet"
session last Thursday that he is
prepared for talks arranged by
UNIFIL (although not chaired by
a UNIFIL officer).
This aroused the ire of Sharon
who opposes any such involve-
ment — either in setting up talks
or in expanding the projected UN-
IFIL role in policing security in
south Lebanon. Sharon said last
week that he ruled out any coop-
eration with UNIFIL because
that agency "cooperated with ter-
rorist organizations, openly and
secretly, during the years it was
in Lebanon."
Rabin, in his interview, said he
was "cautiously hopeful" that
Syria would eventually agree to a
comprehensive withdrawal-and-
security arrangement. His aides
say he will not, however, allow the
talks to drag on indefinitely. His
time-frame, they say, is in the
order of three or four months,
after which he will examine the
unilateral options.