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THE BOSTON JEWISH TIMES Write the vision and make it plain upon tables. HABAKKUK 2:2 Vol. XXXIX, No. 26 Thursday, February 23, 1984 20 Adar I 5744 Moshe Arens Talks Tough On TV By David Friedman .. WASHINGTON Israel Defense Minister Moshe Arens made it clear last week that the Israeli army would not leave southern Lebanon until there was a Govern- ment in Beirut that could ensure the security of Israel's northern border. "As long as there is not a Lebanese Government that can provide a credible commitment that it will prevent terrorist action against Israel from southern Lebanon, Israel has no choice but to keep its army deployed in southern Lebanon," Arens said in an interview on ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. "We have to protect the lives and the safety of the citizens in the northern part of Israel," the Defense Minister stressed. Arens noted that Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilas have been infiltrating back into Lebanon, some of them fighting alongside Druse soldiers in the Shouf mountains. He said there have been some rockets � "few and far between" � fired at Israel which have not caused any injuries. Arens said the presence of the Israeli army in south Lebanon has prevented the type of shelling that rained sporadically on border towns before Israel went into Lebanon in June of 1982; he added that Israel has warned the Druse to prevent the P.L.O. soldiers from moving south. Arens said that the withdrawal of the U.S. Marines will not help the Government of President Amin Gemayel; but the past few weeks, he said, have shown that maybe nothing could help Gemayel, "so maybe it doesn't really make a dif- ference." Arens warned that Syria and the Soviet Union believe the Western nations involved in Lebanon do not have the staying power to see the Lebanese situation through. If this is true, he said, it is "only a question of time until Assad and the Russians behind him will win." If Syria does gain control in Lebanon, he predicted, Assad will then turn south against either Israel or Jordan. "I hope they know, I hope they realize that Israel has the staying power. . .the perseverance, the stamina, the strength to beat any- one who tries to attack us," Arens warned. Sorry Spectacle The Defense Minister said it would be a "sorry spectacle" if Lebanon abrogated its May 17 agreement with Israel, noting that at least in the West it was a prac- tice to keep agreements once they were signed. He rejected the sug- gestion that it was a mistake to not have included Syria in the negotia- tions leading up to the agreement. First of all, he said, Syria did not want to be part of those negotia- tions; furthermore, he claimed, to require Syria's approval of the agreement was like having the U.S. and Mexico reach an agree- ment which would then need the approval of Cuba. Asked about President Reagan's peace initiative, first put forth in September, 1982, Arens did not rule it out flatly. He said the current situation in Lebanon demonstrated that it is not a propitious moment to advise Israel "to make conces- sions and give up territory." He stressed that Israel will never go back to its pre-1967 borders, saying this was a move "no Israeli can agree to." (JTA) All Sides Move In As Nature Abhors A Vacuum By Alex Wohl Boston Jewish Times Staff With the crumbling of President Amin Gemayel's Government, the defeat (and disintegration) of the Lebanese Army, and the departure from the shores of Beirut of the American and Italian Internation- al Peacekeeping forces, Beirut has become a political vacuum, with each side in the conflict attempting to gain that extra piece of power or a strategic location that will ensure them an upper hand in future nego- tiations or conflicts. 'PeMfiecttve Gemayel, fighting to keep his title, is abandoning his goals in an effort to pacify Syrian whims. And, in what is nothing more than politi- cal blackmail, both Shiite and Druse troops are demanding goals which are unrealistic for the present Lebanese Government (if it is to retain any form of integrity) to achieve. Druse leader Walid Jumblat has made no secret of the fact that he wants Gemayel out, and recent military victories over the Lebanese Army have enabled him to be a big talker. The Syrians are not quite so eager to get rid of Gemayel. They are fully cognizant of the fact that with him in office their ability to pull the strings on a puppet Government is greater than if he were replaced by a successor cho- sen by a Moslem faction. Israeli Actions The Israelis are also showing a great deal of concern for the security of their northern border. Their May 17 troop-withdrawal agreement with Lebanon, though never having actually achieved anything material because of Syrian intransigence (i.e., troop withdrawal) did show that the Israelis were willing to negotiate. With the Gemayel Government now on the verge of abrogating that treaty, future, similar agreements will probably not be approached as readily. The Israelis have also stepped up the number of attacks on suspected P.L.O. bases in Lebanon and have moved some of their troops northward in a show of serious- ness. Last Sunday, Israeli planes bombed targets in the hills near Beirut, and on Monday, Beirut radio reported that Israeli tanks and personnel carriers were head- ed up the coastal highway from positions along the Awali River to the Druse-controlled town of Da- mour. Although newspapers head- lined the movements, Israeli Government officials downplayed them, terming them merely a con- tinuation of the Israeli determina- tion to protect the northern border. In Boston, a spokesman for the Israeli Consulate commented that the recent activity was "to in- sure that there is no settling down of terrorists in the south of Lebanon." He noted, "There is nothing sacred about the Awali," refering to the fact that Israeli forces had recently redeployed south to the Awali river and that the movement northward was merely a continuation of Israeli policy and not a new expansion. Little Hope With continued Syrian inflexibili- ty as well as their desire for ultimate control in the area, there remains little hope for a peaceful solution soon. It appears that the Syrians (or their puppet Govern- ment in Lebanon) will control developments there in the near future. Meanwhile, the Israelis will continue to occupy the south to insure the safety of the Galilee. Thus it becomes a viscious circle, with both sides saying they'll move as soon" as the other side does. In short, a stalemate. Good things coming out of all the comings and goings in Lebanon remain few and far between. Yet surely public consciousness now fully understands the meaning of ucp'oy and redeploy. Strauss Waltz Has Kohl On Counterpoint AJ Congress Backs Christian v Vs. Caldor By Ben Gallob NEW YORK (JTA) � Two Jew- ish agencies seeking a Supreme Court review of Connecticut state court rulings which rejected the claim of a Presbyterian store man- ager that his religious rights had been violated by his being compel- led to work on Sunday, have been encouraged by two recent legal developments in the case. Dennis Rapps, executive direc- tor of the National Jewish Commis- sion on Law and Public Affairs, or Colpa, said one development was the action of the State of Connecti- cut in filing a motion recently in support of Colpa's petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. Certiorari is a petition for review. The petition by Colpa, with which the American Jewish Congress is associated, was filed on behalf of Donald Thorton, a manager for one of the Caldor chain stores in Con- necticut. The other development is similar petition for a writ of certiorari for Thornton filed with the Supreme Court by the Federal Department of Justice, signed by Rex Lee, U.S. Solicitor General. Continued on Page Fifteen Those Who Can ,Do; Those Who Can't, Don't JKKl'SALKM � Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin last Sunday rejected a proposal that he add his signature to Israel's Dec- laration of Independence. The proposal was made by Deputy Housing Minister Moshe Katzav in a letter to Premier S'it/hak Shamir. Katzav said that Begin was denied the privilege of signing the Declaration in 1948 because the Labor establishment was opposed to the Irgun, led by Begin during the pre-State days. heading to the proposal. Begin told Ma'ariv, "One cannot add a signature retrospectively. Those who signed, signed: those who didn't sign, didn't sign." Begin said the proposal surprised him. Had Katzav consulted him in advance, he said, he would have asked him not to raise H. Shamir told Katzav he would "consider" the proposal. BONN (JTA) � Franz Josef Strauss' unannounced, unofficial trip to Syria has dismayed the Bonn Government and raised speculation as to the precise inten- tions behind the conservative Bavarian leader's visit to Damas- cus for talks with President Hafez el-Assad. Strauss heads the Christian Social Union, the ruling party in Bavaria and a close ally of Chan- cellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union. But Kohl was reported to have been surprised and angered on his return from the funeral of Yuri Andropov in Moscow to learn of Strauss' self- appointed mission. Aides to Strauss said he was re- sponding to a personal invitation from Assad at a time when con- tacts between Damascus and the West are at an extremely delicate stage owing to the situation in Lebanon. They refused to say whether Strauss considered his mission to be an attempt to mediate between the United States and Syria. He had not been asked to undertake such a role. Move To Sell Arms? There are rumors that Strauss may be trying to open the way for weapons sales to Syria by Bavarian-based arms manufac- turers. Sources here recall that he initiated joint Franco-German arms sales to Syria several years ago, a deal approved by the Bonn Government at the,time because it involved weapons systems jointly produced by France and West Ger- many. But according to many obser- vers, the Bavarian leader's ven- ture into personal diplomacy in the Mideast may be an attempt to un- dermind the position of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a leader of the small Free Democratic Party, the Christian Democrat's coalition partner. Genscher had served as Foreign Minister in the coalition headed by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. When the Social Demo- crats were unseated by the Christian Democrats in last fall's elections, Strauss sought to replace Genscher as Foreign Minister and was angered when Kohl refused to appoint him. He has since been pressing for a Government shuffle that would reduce the influence of the Free Democrats, who repre- sent a liberal element in Kohl's coalition. A spokesman for the Social Democrats said today that Strauss' trip to Syria and his other foreign- policy activities damage West Ger- many's reputation and are a burden on relations with other countries. The Foreign Ministry made it clear that Strauss had not been assigned any mission on the Government's behalf. Late in 1983, the Kohl Govern- ment surprised Israel with an announcement of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Citing a policy of selling arms only to "areas of non-tension," Israel, Lebanon, Jor- dan, and Syria were specified as tension areas and therefore ineli- gible to buy arms from the Ger- mans. Our New Columnist See Page 16 NADIA LOURIE has join- ed the Boston Jewish Times as a columnist dealing with cultural, scientific, and hu- man affairs in Israel and the diaspora. Mrs. Lourie currently writes for British and South African papers, and has her own column in Israel's French daily, Le Journal d'Israel. She has also been the Israel correspondent for Newsweek magazine. Born in Russia and educa- ted in Germany and Eng- land, Nadia Lourie married and moved to South Africa, where she raised two chil- dren. She and her husband moved to Palestine before the 1948 war. From her Tel Aviv apart- ment overlooking the Medi- terranean Sea, she is posi- tioned to report the- moods, trends, and interests of Israeli society.
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Transcript | THE BOSTON JEWISH TIMES Write the vision and make it plain upon tables. HABAKKUK 2:2 Vol. XXXIX, No. 26 Thursday, February 23, 1984 20 Adar I 5744 Moshe Arens Talks Tough On TV By David Friedman .. WASHINGTON Israel Defense Minister Moshe Arens made it clear last week that the Israeli army would not leave southern Lebanon until there was a Govern- ment in Beirut that could ensure the security of Israel's northern border. "As long as there is not a Lebanese Government that can provide a credible commitment that it will prevent terrorist action against Israel from southern Lebanon, Israel has no choice but to keep its army deployed in southern Lebanon," Arens said in an interview on ABC's This Week With David Brinkley. "We have to protect the lives and the safety of the citizens in the northern part of Israel," the Defense Minister stressed. Arens noted that Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilas have been infiltrating back into Lebanon, some of them fighting alongside Druse soldiers in the Shouf mountains. He said there have been some rockets � "few and far between" � fired at Israel which have not caused any injuries. Arens said the presence of the Israeli army in south Lebanon has prevented the type of shelling that rained sporadically on border towns before Israel went into Lebanon in June of 1982; he added that Israel has warned the Druse to prevent the P.L.O. soldiers from moving south. Arens said that the withdrawal of the U.S. Marines will not help the Government of President Amin Gemayel; but the past few weeks, he said, have shown that maybe nothing could help Gemayel, "so maybe it doesn't really make a dif- ference." Arens warned that Syria and the Soviet Union believe the Western nations involved in Lebanon do not have the staying power to see the Lebanese situation through. If this is true, he said, it is "only a question of time until Assad and the Russians behind him will win." If Syria does gain control in Lebanon, he predicted, Assad will then turn south against either Israel or Jordan. "I hope they know, I hope they realize that Israel has the staying power. . .the perseverance, the stamina, the strength to beat any- one who tries to attack us," Arens warned. Sorry Spectacle The Defense Minister said it would be a "sorry spectacle" if Lebanon abrogated its May 17 agreement with Israel, noting that at least in the West it was a prac- tice to keep agreements once they were signed. He rejected the sug- gestion that it was a mistake to not have included Syria in the negotia- tions leading up to the agreement. First of all, he said, Syria did not want to be part of those negotia- tions; furthermore, he claimed, to require Syria's approval of the agreement was like having the U.S. and Mexico reach an agree- ment which would then need the approval of Cuba. Asked about President Reagan's peace initiative, first put forth in September, 1982, Arens did not rule it out flatly. He said the current situation in Lebanon demonstrated that it is not a propitious moment to advise Israel "to make conces- sions and give up territory." He stressed that Israel will never go back to its pre-1967 borders, saying this was a move "no Israeli can agree to." (JTA) All Sides Move In As Nature Abhors A Vacuum By Alex Wohl Boston Jewish Times Staff With the crumbling of President Amin Gemayel's Government, the defeat (and disintegration) of the Lebanese Army, and the departure from the shores of Beirut of the American and Italian Internation- al Peacekeeping forces, Beirut has become a political vacuum, with each side in the conflict attempting to gain that extra piece of power or a strategic location that will ensure them an upper hand in future nego- tiations or conflicts. 'PeMfiecttve Gemayel, fighting to keep his title, is abandoning his goals in an effort to pacify Syrian whims. And, in what is nothing more than politi- cal blackmail, both Shiite and Druse troops are demanding goals which are unrealistic for the present Lebanese Government (if it is to retain any form of integrity) to achieve. Druse leader Walid Jumblat has made no secret of the fact that he wants Gemayel out, and recent military victories over the Lebanese Army have enabled him to be a big talker. The Syrians are not quite so eager to get rid of Gemayel. They are fully cognizant of the fact that with him in office their ability to pull the strings on a puppet Government is greater than if he were replaced by a successor cho- sen by a Moslem faction. Israeli Actions The Israelis are also showing a great deal of concern for the security of their northern border. Their May 17 troop-withdrawal agreement with Lebanon, though never having actually achieved anything material because of Syrian intransigence (i.e., troop withdrawal) did show that the Israelis were willing to negotiate. With the Gemayel Government now on the verge of abrogating that treaty, future, similar agreements will probably not be approached as readily. The Israelis have also stepped up the number of attacks on suspected P.L.O. bases in Lebanon and have moved some of their troops northward in a show of serious- ness. Last Sunday, Israeli planes bombed targets in the hills near Beirut, and on Monday, Beirut radio reported that Israeli tanks and personnel carriers were head- ed up the coastal highway from positions along the Awali River to the Druse-controlled town of Da- mour. Although newspapers head- lined the movements, Israeli Government officials downplayed them, terming them merely a con- tinuation of the Israeli determina- tion to protect the northern border. In Boston, a spokesman for the Israeli Consulate commented that the recent activity was "to in- sure that there is no settling down of terrorists in the south of Lebanon." He noted, "There is nothing sacred about the Awali," refering to the fact that Israeli forces had recently redeployed south to the Awali river and that the movement northward was merely a continuation of Israeli policy and not a new expansion. Little Hope With continued Syrian inflexibili- ty as well as their desire for ultimate control in the area, there remains little hope for a peaceful solution soon. It appears that the Syrians (or their puppet Govern- ment in Lebanon) will control developments there in the near future. Meanwhile, the Israelis will continue to occupy the south to insure the safety of the Galilee. Thus it becomes a viscious circle, with both sides saying they'll move as soon" as the other side does. In short, a stalemate. Good things coming out of all the comings and goings in Lebanon remain few and far between. Yet surely public consciousness now fully understands the meaning of ucp'oy and redeploy. Strauss Waltz Has Kohl On Counterpoint AJ Congress Backs Christian v Vs. Caldor By Ben Gallob NEW YORK (JTA) � Two Jew- ish agencies seeking a Supreme Court review of Connecticut state court rulings which rejected the claim of a Presbyterian store man- ager that his religious rights had been violated by his being compel- led to work on Sunday, have been encouraged by two recent legal developments in the case. Dennis Rapps, executive direc- tor of the National Jewish Commis- sion on Law and Public Affairs, or Colpa, said one development was the action of the State of Connecti- cut in filing a motion recently in support of Colpa's petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. Certiorari is a petition for review. The petition by Colpa, with which the American Jewish Congress is associated, was filed on behalf of Donald Thorton, a manager for one of the Caldor chain stores in Con- necticut. The other development is similar petition for a writ of certiorari for Thornton filed with the Supreme Court by the Federal Department of Justice, signed by Rex Lee, U.S. Solicitor General. Continued on Page Fifteen Those Who Can ,Do; Those Who Can't, Don't JKKl'SALKM � Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin last Sunday rejected a proposal that he add his signature to Israel's Dec- laration of Independence. The proposal was made by Deputy Housing Minister Moshe Katzav in a letter to Premier S'it/hak Shamir. Katzav said that Begin was denied the privilege of signing the Declaration in 1948 because the Labor establishment was opposed to the Irgun, led by Begin during the pre-State days. heading to the proposal. Begin told Ma'ariv, "One cannot add a signature retrospectively. Those who signed, signed: those who didn't sign, didn't sign." Begin said the proposal surprised him. Had Katzav consulted him in advance, he said, he would have asked him not to raise H. Shamir told Katzav he would "consider" the proposal. BONN (JTA) � Franz Josef Strauss' unannounced, unofficial trip to Syria has dismayed the Bonn Government and raised speculation as to the precise inten- tions behind the conservative Bavarian leader's visit to Damas- cus for talks with President Hafez el-Assad. Strauss heads the Christian Social Union, the ruling party in Bavaria and a close ally of Chan- cellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union. But Kohl was reported to have been surprised and angered on his return from the funeral of Yuri Andropov in Moscow to learn of Strauss' self- appointed mission. Aides to Strauss said he was re- sponding to a personal invitation from Assad at a time when con- tacts between Damascus and the West are at an extremely delicate stage owing to the situation in Lebanon. They refused to say whether Strauss considered his mission to be an attempt to mediate between the United States and Syria. He had not been asked to undertake such a role. Move To Sell Arms? There are rumors that Strauss may be trying to open the way for weapons sales to Syria by Bavarian-based arms manufac- turers. Sources here recall that he initiated joint Franco-German arms sales to Syria several years ago, a deal approved by the Bonn Government at the,time because it involved weapons systems jointly produced by France and West Ger- many. But according to many obser- vers, the Bavarian leader's ven- ture into personal diplomacy in the Mideast may be an attempt to un- dermind the position of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a leader of the small Free Democratic Party, the Christian Democrat's coalition partner. Genscher had served as Foreign Minister in the coalition headed by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. When the Social Demo- crats were unseated by the Christian Democrats in last fall's elections, Strauss sought to replace Genscher as Foreign Minister and was angered when Kohl refused to appoint him. He has since been pressing for a Government shuffle that would reduce the influence of the Free Democrats, who repre- sent a liberal element in Kohl's coalition. A spokesman for the Social Democrats said today that Strauss' trip to Syria and his other foreign- policy activities damage West Ger- many's reputation and are a burden on relations with other countries. The Foreign Ministry made it clear that Strauss had not been assigned any mission on the Government's behalf. Late in 1983, the Kohl Govern- ment surprised Israel with an announcement of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Citing a policy of selling arms only to "areas of non-tension," Israel, Lebanon, Jor- dan, and Syria were specified as tension areas and therefore ineli- gible to buy arms from the Ger- mans. Our New Columnist See Page 16 NADIA LOURIE has join- ed the Boston Jewish Times as a columnist dealing with cultural, scientific, and hu- man affairs in Israel and the diaspora. Mrs. Lourie currently writes for British and South African papers, and has her own column in Israel's French daily, Le Journal d'Israel. She has also been the Israel correspondent for Newsweek magazine. Born in Russia and educa- ted in Germany and Eng- land, Nadia Lourie married and moved to South Africa, where she raised two chil- dren. She and her husband moved to Palestine before the 1948 war. From her Tel Aviv apart- ment overlooking the Medi- terranean Sea, she is posi- tioned to report the- moods, trends, and interests of Israeli society. |
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