, •Friday, :June 14,1985- 3 THE DETR0,111(JEWISH ._NEWS LET YOUR DREAMS TAKE FLIGHT FOCUS AT DANCE VILLAGE (CAMP MAAS) Entering 6th-9th grade girls War That Went Wrong: Israel's Foray In Lebanon Tuesday July 30 - Sunday, August 25 V OL BY HIRSH GOODMAN eration, supposed to have ended four or five days before, still seemed to be in full swing. We were in Sidon atop an 11- story unfinished building in the center of the city. An Israeli brigadier general, Yitzhak Mor- dechai (later to be implicated in the alleged murder of two ter- rorists who hijacked a bus to Gaza) was standing, binoculars to his eyes, surveying the Ein Hilwe refugee camp to the south-east. Around him, staff officers busied themselves with maps and aerial photographs of the city 7 pinned on large wooden boards. It was around mid-morning, and Mordechai, the commander of the forces that had taken the city, faced a terrible dilemma. Several hundred terrorists, in a desperate It is senseless to last stand, had rounded up an un- arid numbei belabor the tragedy of known were holding them hostage in the local hospital. To storm the hospi- the Lebanon, war. tal without first using either artil- Israel cannot afford lery or the air force would cost the to turn a blind eye to lives of Israeli soldiers. To use either the air force or artillery what happened, lest would cost civilian lives. International attention had al- it be allowed to ready been focused on the hysteri- happen again. cal but effective charges of mass civilian casualties being caused during the IDF's advance. But there was also growing alarm in freeing of 1,150 prisoners at the Israel at the number of IDF dictate of Ahmed Jibril, whose casualties — over 250 killed and "army" numbers less than 400 over 1,500 injured, many times coincides almost exactly with the the number the government had final withdrawal of the IDF from anticipated in its most pessimistic Lebanon three years after it was assessment of the human toll this dispatched on the ultimate war war would exact. against terror. One of the staff officers, who There is no Israeli puppet in Be- had been quietly drawing a thick irut, but a Syrian one. Anarchy blue line around an aerial photo of reigns, not stability. Secret Israeli Ein Hilwe, isolating it from the strategic answers to the Syrian other sections of the town, sud- missile threat were thrown away denly put down his pen, looked in a senseless battle that has left over at the group of men making the Syrians with three times as decisions from their roof-top perch many armed men on Lebanese and said: soil as they had before the war, "This reminds me of the capture and firmly in control of Beirut. of the Warsaw Ghetto. We have It is senseless to belabor the isolated a section of this city be- tragedy of this war, what it did to cause of its ethnic composition, the unity of this nation, and the laid seige to it, and are now plan- fibre of its army, what it cost in ning to reduce it to rubble. Only human and economic terms. we aren't Germans and we aren't Whatever benefit was gained, Syrians. We aren't built for this the price was too high. The rout- type of war." ing of the PLO in the South was A similar sentiment was ex- offset by the toll exacted by the pressed by another officer 10 days Shi'ite terror that replaced it. later at a different roof-top perch, Whatever political gain may this one on top of the French col- have been extracted by the split lege in the hills overlooking Be- that developed in the PLO in the irut from the east. In the corn- opening stages of the war was ne- mand post were a group of gated by the phenomenon of exhausted and frustrated gener- Shi'ite terror in the South that ul- als who had reached the end of timately forced the humilitating their tether. C.) retreat of the IDF from Lebanon. Some 10,000 terrorists and Sy- What the combined Arab armies rians remained entrenched in the had not managed to do in five Lebanese capital. They were com- wars with superpower support, fortably protected by a human the Shi'ites of Southern Lebanon shield of over 400,000 Moslems achieved in a matter of months. and Christians, who refused to The feelings that something leave their homes no matter how had gone very wrong with this many leaflets the IDF dropped war developed almost impercep- advising them to do so, no matter tibly. Perhaps the first doubt how tight the siege that included crept in one morning when the op- cutting off water, electricity and food supplies. "No matter what option we Hirsh Goodman is the defense choose, we lose," a senior officer correspondent for the Jerusalem said. "We should never have got Post, from which this piece is Continued on Page 21 reprinted. Jerusalem — It is by now a truism that three years ago Israel embarked on one of the most un- fortunate adventures in the coun- try's history. 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