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Mothers Cry In Lebanon
Six months after a tragic helicopter crash, Israeli
moms are clamoring where politicians fear to tread.
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Miri Sela, a leader of the moth-
ers, group, and a former peace ac-
tivist, says the campaign is
apolitical, supported by left- and
right-wingers alike. After the re-
cent petition, the group plans to
lobby in the Knesset, appear in
the media, meet with military of-
ficers — and find themselves an
answer.
Casualties of the helicopter
tragedy were added to a lengthy
list of soldiers killed since the in-
vasion 15 years ago in an attempt
to oust the Palestine Liberation
Organization and end the
shellings of Israel's northern set-
tlements.
According to the Israeli army,
655 soldiers were killed and 3,883
wounded from the start of the
war in June 1982 to Israel's with-
drawal to the 6.2-mile-wide se-
curity zone in June 1985. The
army says another 175 were
killed between 1986 and 1996, in-
cluding an average of 24 per year
since 1993.
However, Is-
rael has had only
2
minimal success
in achieving polit-
ical goals on the
Lebanese battle-
field. Operation
"Peace for
Galilee," as the
Lebanon war was
known, did suc-
ceed in ousting
the PLO from its
stranglehold on
Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of one of their fallen
Lebanon and
comrades killed in south Lebanon.
stopped its
shelling of the set-
The protest was timed to coin- tlements.
The grander plan of that mis-
cide with the 15th anniversary of
Israel's invasion of Lebanon, in sion was never achieved, howev-
what many Israelis regard as the er. Yassir Arafat's influence over
Palestinians in the West Bank
country's most unnecessary war.
Since then, hundreds of Israeli and Gaza may have waned tem-
soldiers have died in the porarily but was never crushed
as Israel had hoped.
Lebanese quagmire.
In addition, Israel's image in
But it was very recent histo-
ry that drove the mothers, backed the world suffered greatly as
by concerned fathers as well, to thousands of civilians were killed
take to the streets. The crash of in the invasion.
Instead, a new enemy rose up
two military helicopters en route
to Lebanon last January, which against Israel from the smolder-
left 73 soldiers dead, sparked a ing ashes of the Lebanon War:
public debate over the Israeli Hezbollah. The Iranian-backed
presence there even before the fundamentalist guerrilla group
end of the seven-day mourning has pledged to oust Israel from
the security zone and to liberate
period.
The reaction highlighted grow- Jerusalem.
The guerrillas periodically
ing Israeli desperation. "It's like
a game of Russian roulette up rocket northern Israel.
"We cannot tell the army and
there," said Tody Warshaysky,
53, whose son is serving in South the government what to do," said
Lebanon. "Every four months a one Israeli mother. "But it must
new unit positions itself in be on the agenda every day. We
Lebanon, spins the revolver bar- don't want to walk behind coffins
anymore." ❑
rel and hopes for the best."
hosh Saban has lost many
nights of sleep worrying
about her son, an Israeli
soldier stationed in South
Lebanon, helplessly wondering
whether he will return home for
his next weekend leave.
Recently, Ms. Saban decided
to take matters into her own
hands. Along with the mothers
of soldiers at 32 sites across the
state, she helped collect thou-
sands of signatures from con-
cerned parents of soldiers and
sympathizers. The goal was to
press Israel's government to with-
draw the men from what Israelis
increasingly see as a futile pres-
ence in its self-declared security
zone.
"I have right-wing views, but
I support any government that
will get us out of Lebanon," said
Ms. Saban. "The idea is to bring
about a conceptual change about
what we are doing in Lebanon.
After 15 years, it's about time."
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