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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1989

Moslem Group Turns
Deadly; Rabin Responds

Jerusalem — Members of
the Hamas Moslem fun-
damentalist movement in
Gaza were responsible for the
kidnapping and murder of
two Israeli soldiers over the
last few months, informed in-
telligence sources reported.
These and other violent in-
cidents organized by llamas
have led to a drastic change
in policy by Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, who until
recently viewed llamas
("Zeal") as a counterweight to
the Palestine Liberation
Organization's power in the
occupied territories, sources
close to the defense minister
said.
Soldiers Avi Sasportas and
Ilan Sa'adon both disappeared
while hitchhiking home from
their army bases. Sasportas
vanished on Feb. 16, and his
body was discovered in a
shallow grave on May 7.
Sa'adon was kidnapped on
May 1, and his body has not
been recovered.
Until recently, Rabin and
some other Israeli leaders
believed that llamas, which
opposes an independent PLO-
led state because of its secular
nature, might become a more
pliable negotiating partner
for the future of the Palesti-
nians in the occupied ter-
ritories. Even though it was
llamas activists in their Gaza
stronghold who started the
intifada in December 1987,
the Moslem fundamentalists
did not initiate any direct ter-
rorist activities, in contrast to
the PLO.
But that has changed, and
the reality has brought Rabin
back to earth. When he
visited Washington last
month, the Americans told
him that he should cut off
connections with llamas
because of profound worries
among moderate Arabs,
primarily the Egyptians. The
Egyptian secular government
has long been threatened by
the Moslem Brotherhood,
which has close logistical and
financial links to the Palesti-
nian llamas fundamentalists.
This fundamentalist net-
work now includes the Ira-
nians, the Hizbollah of
Lebanon, the Libyans, the
Moslem Brotherhood in
Egypt and Syria, and some
llamas elements.
Hamas has been showing
increasing strength on the
West Bank as well as in Gaza,
where the majority of the
600,000 Palestinians are fer-
vent supporters of the
fundamentalists.
Hamas has organized
several violent incidents of

late, including an ambush of
a border police patrol in
Nahalin village on April 13.
Upon his return from the
United States last month,
Rabin summoned a promi-
nent llamas leader, Dr.
Mahmud a-Zahar, of Gaza,
and told him that he had pro-
of of llamas' involvement in
the kidnapping and killing of
the two soldiers. He gave him
two options: If llamas turned
over the killers of the soldiers
and the body of Ilan Sa'adon,
Israel would not crush the
llamas organization — other-
wise, full force would be
unleashed against the
Moslem fundamentalists. A-
Zahar refused to cooperate.
Immediately after the
meeting, Israeli authorities
arrested the entire command
structure of llamas, and is
still holding at least 200
leaders from Gaza. Among
them is llamas spiritual
leader Ahmed Yassin. llamas
activists in the West Bank
town of Ramallah were also
rounded up. Rabin has issued
orders to nip any new llamas
activity in the bud. obox

DEPTH News Service

Survivor Gets
Jail Sentence

Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Jerusalem District Court
sentenced Yisrael Yehezkeli,
a 71-year-old Holocaust sur-
vivor, to five years in jail, with
two years suspended, for
throwing acid in the face of
the Israeli lawyer represen-
ting convicted war-criminal
John (Ivan the Terrible)
Demjanjuk.
Yehezkeli was convicted
March 13 of aggravated
assault for tossing the acid at
chief defense attorney Yoram
Sheftel, severely injuring his
eye.
The attack took place Dec.
1 at the funeral of another
Demjanjuk attorney, Dov
Eitan, who committed suicide
jumping from the top floor of
a Jerusalem hotel.
Yehezkeli himself is not a
concentration camp survivor,
having spent the war years in
Russia, but his family was
lost in Treblinka.
The court Wednesday also
ordered Yehezkeli to pay
Sheftel $6,000 (the bill of the
Boston ophthalmologist who
operated on his eye), plus
$5,300 compensation.
After the sentencing,
Yehezkeli said he felt no
regret for his attack, express-
ing his astonishment that a
Jew could defend a Nazi.