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Israel Officially Labels
Syrian Pact A Threat

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel
has officially told the United
States that it considers the
Syrian-Lebanese
"brotherhood pact" that was
signed last week in
Damascus a serious new
security threat on its nor-
thern border.
But Israeli officials denied
reports from Lebanon that
the Israel Defense Force was
massing on the northern
border for a pre-emptive
strike in response to the
Damascus-Beirut pact.
The IDF said troops were
put on "normal alert" in
view of the event, but there
were no special military
preparations.
Reports of an Israeli
military buildup were also
denied by Timor Goksel,
spokesman for the United
Nations Interim Force in
Lebanon.
The pact, officially known
as the Brotherhood, Coop-
eration and Coordination Ac-
cord, was signed May 22 by
Presidents Hafez al-Assad of
Syria and Elias Hwari of
Lebanon.
It is referred to in
Jerusalem as the "Assad
Anschluss."
According to the Israelis, it

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amounts to the virtual an-
nexation of Lebanon by
Syria, comparable to the
1938 "Anschluss" that end-
ed the independence of
Austria with its incorpora-
tion into the German Third
Reich.
Housing Minister Ariel
Sharon observed that Syria's
domination of Lebanon
opens a "new front, which is
closer to important in-
dustrial areas in the Haifa
Bay district."
Defense Minister Moshe
Arens said May 22 that by
getting Lebanon to sign the
pact, Syrian President Hafez
al-Assad had managed to do
quietly what Saddam Hus-
sein had failed to do in war:
incorporate within his coun-
try a neighboring Arab
state.
Mr. Arens spoke to
reporters during a visit to
Kiryat Shmona, near the
border with Lebanon.
The fear here is that the
brotherhood pact will allow
Palestinian and other ter-
rorist organizations active in
Lebanon to move south and
launch attacks on Israel
under an expanded Syrian
umbrella.

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Tel Aviv (JTA) — Govern-
ment officials here are
cautiously optimistic that
Israelis held captive by an
Islamic terrorist organiza-
tion could be freed in a
prisoner exchange.
But there is admittedly no
proof that more than one of
two Israelis reportedly held
by the Lebanese group Hez-
bollah, or Party of God, is
even alive. And there is no
information about the fate of
another five Israelis cap-
tured by various other
groups long believed to be
controlled by the Islamic
fundamentalist group.
Defense Minister Moshe
Arens, addressing a sym-
posium on Iraq held May 26
at Haifa University, said
there is room for a certain
degree of optimism. He was
asked to comment on a
report in the May 26 New
York Times that Israel and
the Iranian-backed Hez-
bollah had reached agree-
ment in principle over two
Israelis held by that group.
The report, which came
from Beirut, said Hezbollah

and Israel reached agree-
ment in principle last May
24 to exchange prisoners of
war, and that such a move
could also spell freedom for
American and other
Western hostages held in
Lebanon.

Le Pen Disciple
Fined By Court

Paris (JTA) — A founding
member of Jean-Marie Le
Pen's extreme right-wing
National Front was fined the
equivalent of $1,700 for
reprinting and circulating a
notorious anti- Semitic libel,
The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion.
Christian Ricard, 61, was
found guilty by the court of
justice in the southern Fren-
ch town of Rodez.
The Protocols, a forgery
purporting to expose a Jew-
ish plot to rule the world,
was written in Paris for the
czarist secret police about
100 years ago. Its circulation
in France is a criminal
offense.