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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." ❑ • ■ 4 awl •-•