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A Matter of Control
Surfaces With Syria
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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
I) n
the ground, there is peace
between Israel and Syria.
The two sides 'do not shoot
at each other. The war that
Israeli negotiators in Maryland
are trying to get their Syrian
counterparts to stop is the one
that has been going on for 10Y2
years in South Lebanon, just be-
yond Israel's northern border.
Every now and then, that war
comes over the border and lands
on northern Israeli towns or vil-
lages, as it did on the last week-
end of 1995.
Hezbollah guerrillas, backed
by Iran and given free rein by Syr-
ia, hit the Israeli border city of
Kiryat Shmonah with at least 16
Katyusha rockets in a nighttime
attack. There were no injuries, but
some 180 houses and 50 cars were
damaged; the losses were esti-
mated at $1 million.
The Katyushas came in re-
sponse to an Israeli army attack
in the morning. Israeli soldiers in
South Lebanon saw enemy gun-
men on the outskirts of a.vill.age
and fired on them. One man was
killed; the Israeli army said he
was a guerrilla, Lebanese police
said he was a civilian.
The Israeli attack had come in
retaliation for a Hezbollah
shelling against them the previ-
ous day, which injured a soldier
from Israel's allied force, the
South Lebanese Army.
Northern border towns like
Kiryat Shmonah, Metullah and
Nahariya, as well as nearby kib-
butzim and moshavim (coopera-
tive farming villages), have been
shelled hundreds of times since
the Lebanon War ended. But this
was the first time the rockets had
fallen while Israeli and Syrian ne-
gotiators were supposedly mak-
ing real progress towards peace.
Hezbollah receives its weapons
from Iran. But those weapons
could never reach the guerrillas
in Lebanon without the tacit ap-
proval of Syria, which has tens of
thousands of soldiers in Lebanon
and effectively rules the country.
As for the attacks themselves,
it has been proven enough times
in the past that Syria can quiet
Hezbollah when it wants to. So
did the Katyusha barrage on
Kiryat Shmonah come with Syr-
ian approval, even with the Mary-
land negotiations going forward?
After the Maryland negotia-
tions were announced, Syrian of-
ficials said publicly they would see
to it that the fighting in South
Lebanon calmed down. Hezbol-
(
lah leaders in Lebanon were very
put out by this announcement,
and traveled to Damascus to hear
from Syrian President Hafez As-
sad just where they stood.
A senior Israeli diplomat with
long experience dealing with the
Lebanese and Syrians said that
evidently, Mr. Assad told the
Hezbollah sheikhs "that when the
time comes, something will have
to be done about these attacks."
Translation: when an Israeli-Syr-
ian peace agreement is near, Syr-
ia, under Israeli and American
pressure, will no longer be able to
allow Hezbollah to make life mis-
erable for Israel.
The Israeli diplomat said he did
not believe Syria would clamp
down on the guerillas until it was
convinced that a peace agreement
was imminent. And for all the talk
of friendly atmospherics during
the first days in Maryland, noth-
ing of substance has yet been
agreed on. Syria's demands for
land and water on the Golan
Heights and the Sea of Galilee re-
main well beyond what Israel is
prepared to concede.
As it does after every Katyusha
attack on the north, the Likud-led
opposition called on the govern-
ment to suspend negotiations
with Syria until Mr. Assad vowed
that the rockets would be silenced.
Kiryat Shmonah Mayor Pros-
per-Azran, who recently declared
his candidacy for the Knesset on
the Likud ticket, said the Israeli
army had to punish the hundreds
of thousands of Lebanese citizens
who allow Hezbollah to operate
from their villages.
The mayor's suggestion did not
get a sympathetic hearing from
the army brass or from Prime
Minister Shimon. Peres. Mr. Peres
reportedly told Mr. Azran that
there were no plans to mount a
full-scale military offensive, but
rather to continue with the Israeli
army's present level of engage-
ment, and to leave the rest to the
diplomats.
But even the most ardent sup-
porters of peace with Syria saw
the Katyusha rockets on Kiryat
Shmonah as discouraging.
After seeing the destruction in
the city, and hearing from the
bombed-out Eli family, Ran Co-
hen, a Knesset member with the
left-wing Meretz party, said: "If
Hezbollah continues to murder
with Iran's support while Syria
fails to choke them off, we're go-
ing to have a problem making
peace with Syria." ❑
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