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Yossi Olmert
speaks of victory
versus Hezbollah.

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Positive Message

I

t is clear that the position of
Israel was and will remain that
the infrastructure of terrorism in
Lebanon will be destroyed and disman-
tled:' said Dr. Yossi Olmert, well-known
expert on the modern Middle East and
brother of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert.
He spoke on the record at a press
conference July 25, then "off-the-
record" to a crowd of 500 at Temple
Israel in West Bloomfield.
Israel seeks "unconditional and
immediate release of the Israeli kid-
napped soldiers, and then to have an
effective formidable force that will
monitor all the borders of Lebanon:' he
said at the press conference. "The mili-
tary situation is very clear; the army
is defeating Hezbollah in most every
skirmish that they are engaged in.
"We have a very motivated army of
young soldiers who know what they
do. They want to defend their families;
they want to defend their country; and
they know what to do, he said. "The
terrorists in Lebanon miscalculated.
"Every effort is being done to reduce
and minimize casualties on both
sides',' he said. "As an Israeli, I dread
the damage and killing of people in
Lebanon ... The only targets that are
being attacked in Lebanon are those
that belong to the state-within-a-state
and the terrorists. No place in Lebanon
where the terrorists are will be immune
from Israeli attacks."
Olmert, a political columnist in Israel
who had held several Israeli govern-
ment positions including director of

communication for former Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir and policy
adviser to former Defense Minister
Moshe Arens, defended Israel's
response.
"The sovereignty of Israel was
infringed by a murderous terrorist
organization',' he said. "The law of the
jungle will not be allowed to prevail,
and part of the law of the jungle is that
the terrorists can try to do whatever
they want and cry wolf when reaction
is coming. The reaction is against ter-
rorist targets:'
The Israeli Air Force alerts the popu-
lation in advance of attacks to allow
the population to evacuate, he said. "In
the process, we lose the advantage of
surprise, and we put our own troops
at risk.
"The defeat of the terrorists will be a
victory for the forces of peace. I hear a
lot of Lebanese who speak very loudly
and clearly against Hezbollah," he said.
Violence "was forced upon us and now
it's about time to make sure it will not
recur."
Those in the crowd at the evening
event sponsored by the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said
they felt good about Olmert's positive
message of destroying Hezbollah's
threat.
"He's showing us how right the cause
is," said Bea Mayer of Farmington Hills.
"Even though the rest of the world sees
us as the aggressors, it's just the oppo-
site. Hezbollah's been sending rockets
into Israel, and Israel kept very quiet
and just kept taking it."
Leonard Baruch of Southfield said
it was interesting to hear how strongly
Olmert feels about Israel's success in
the war.
"It's tremendous," he said. "Things
are very bleak, and when somebody
tells you [something positive] who
supposedly knows about things in the
government, it's very heartening to
hear."

