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Israel Rejects UN
Lebanon Resolution

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THE JEWISH NEWS

56

Friday, October 3, 1986

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Jerusalem (JTA) — A
strong consensus developed
in Israel last week against the
UN Security Council resolu-
tion calling for Israel's aban-
donment of the south Leba-
non security zone and the
deployment of the United Na-
tions Interim Force in Leb-
anon (UNIFIL) along the
Israel-Lebanon border.
The resolution was adopted
by a 14 to 0 vote. The United
States abstained. Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir's
swift condemnation of the
resolution at the UN was
echoed in statements here by
Prime Minister Shimon Peres,
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Chief of Staff Gen.
Moshe Levy.
The Knesset's Foreign Af-
fairs and Security Commit-
tee's majority of Labor and
Likud MKs strongly sup-
ported the government's
policy of no change in the
status quo, defended by
Rabin who appeared before
the committee.
Peres, addressing the World
ORT Convention here, said he
hoped the Security Council
would "come to terms with
reality" with respect to
UNIFIL. By reality, he
meant Israel's determination
not to permit UNIFIL to
deploy further southwards.
Peres noted, however, that
the Lebanese government
wants UNIFIL to remain
"and one can clearly under-
stand that . . . If UNIFIL
leaves Lebanon, the chaotic
situation there would be
worsened."
Rabin told the Knesset
committee that the security
zone has been relatively effec-
tive and should remain as is,
neither extended nor reduced.
He rejected the argument of-
former Chief of Staff Rafael
Eitan, a member of the far
rightwing rIbhiya Party, that
the zone be expanded north-
wards to the Litani River.
Similarly, he spurned the
warning by Mapain Mk
Eliezer Granot that Israel
was in danger of being sucked
back into the Lebanon
morass.
All Israelis were angered by
the implication of the Securi-
ty Council's resolution that
Israel's refusal to allow
UNIFIL to operate along the
international border was
somehow responsible for re-
cent attacks on it. The French
contingent suffered the most
casualties.
Chief of Staff Levy said in
an interview that he detected
a link between the attacks on
French UNIFIL troops and
the recent spate of terrorist
bombings in Paris. They were
premeditated attacks on the
French, as were the terror at-
tacks in Paris and have
nothing whatever to do with
Israel, Levy said.

Meanwhile, at the United
Nations, the U.S. Ambas-
sador to the UN, Vernon
Walters, said that he ab-
stained from voting on the
resolution because it made no
provisions for security ar-
rangements acceptable to all
parties.
The resolution called for
"an end in south Lebanon to
any military presence not ac-
cepted by the Lebanese
authorities" and deployment
of the United Nations In-
terim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) southward to the
Israel-Lebanon border. The
vote which approved the
resolution followed a Security
Council debate on the situa-
tion in south Lebanon con-
vened at the request of
France.
Walters, explaining his
abstention, said the resolu-
tion focussed exclusively on
the redeployment of UNIFIL
while ignoring the critical fac-
tor which was the absence of
agreement among the parties
concerned on security ar-

The resolution
called for "an end
in south Lebanon
to any military
presence not
accepted by the
Lebanese
authorities . ."

rangements that would
respect all interests. He said
that measures must be
agreed on by the parties con-
cerned, otherwise the level of
suspicion and mistrust would
be increased.
Walters added that he
regretted he could not vote on
a resolution raised by an ally
as close as France. Observers
here, noting that the U.S. in
the past as almost invariable
voted against — and thereby
vetoed — Security Council
resolutions unacceptable to
Israel, suggested that the
American abstention in this
instance was a case of not
wanting to offend the French.
The resolution gives UN
Secretary General Javier
Perez de Cuellar 21 days in
which to "make the necessary
arrangements for a deploy-
ment of the (UNIFIL) force to
the southern border of Leb-
anon." It solemnly calls on all
the parties concerned to
cooperate in the achievement
of that objective.
Although the two para-
graph resolution did not men-
tion Israel by name, it con-
tained a clear reference to
Israel's control of security
zone some six miles deep
north of Israel's border with

