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bj David Landau aad
Hush Orjel
JERISALEM (JTA) Prime
Minister Memckem Begin
indicated to the Knesset Monday
that his government accepted the
recommendations of the
commission of inquiry into the
Beirut refugee camps massacre
only because Israel is a country
that lives by the rule of law
Heaping praise on outgoing
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon
and the senior army officers whose
ousters the commission called for.
Begin said the decision to comply
with the recommendations was a
very hard one to take. He defended
the retention of Sharon in the
Cabinet, an issue over which
Israeli legal experts are sharply
divided.
The Knesset voted 61-56
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lives by the rule of law’
Monday to approve the Cabinet
changes. Begin will assume the
responsibilities of defense minister
temporarily until his choice for the
post, Ambassador Moshe Arens,
returns from Washington. Arens’
confirmation by the Knesset is a
virtual certainty. The Knesset vote
also endorsed the decision to keep
Sharon on as a minister-without-
portfolio.
That decision has been attacked
by prominent jurists and sections
of the press as a circumvention of
the commission’s intentions. But
Begin cited legal opinion in
support of it, notably by Attorney
General Yitzhak Zamir, former
Attorney General Moshe Ben-
Ze'ev, and a former chairman of
the Knesset's Legal Committee,
Zerach Warhaftig
Begin also demanded an
apology from Time magazine
for publishing a report in its latest
edition that an unpublished
section of the inquiry commission’s
findings disclosed that Sharon had
encouraged the Christian
Phaiangists in Lebanon to take
revenge on the Palestinians in the
Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
According to Time, he did this at
a secret meeting with veteran
Phalangist leader Pierre Gemayel
the day after his younger son,
Lebanon’s president-elect, Bashir
Gemayel, was assassinated. Begin
said the Time allegation was
completely false and that the
American news weekly owed Israel
an apology.
Meanwhile, two ministers who
were absent when the Cabinet
voted 16-1 last Thursday to accept
the inquiry commission’s report,
expressed support for the decision
to retain Sharon in the
government. Deputy Prime
Minister Simcha Ehrlich, a leader
of Likud's Liberal Party wing and
a political moderate, said it “was
acceptable to me ” Ehrlich has
often been sharply critical of
Sharon.
Science Minister Yuval
Ne'eman, leader of the ultra
rightwing Tehiya party, said that if
Sharon had been forced out of the
government it would have
appeared in Europe and the U.S.
to be a victory for outside
pressures.
Ehrlich, who returned to Israel
Monday night after undergoing
heart surgery in the U.S., praised
the Cabinet for accepting the
commission’s findings. For the
Cabinet which appointed the
commission to have rejected its
recommendations would have
been incredible, he said.
Ne’eman, who returned from
New York on the same flight as
Ehrlich, had no comment on the
commission. An extreme hard
liner who has called for annexation
of south Lebanon by Israel, he
warned that if the government ever
agreed to the withdrawal of Israel"s
forces from Lebanon, he and his
party would consider leaving
Begin's coalition.
Shultz: Arab funds to Lebanon
depend on troops withdrawal
by David Friedman
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Secretary of State George Shultz
suggested Tuesday that the willingness
of Arab countnes to provide funds
to help rebuild Lebanon may
depend on the successful
withdrawal of Syrian, Israeli and
Palestine Liberation Organization
forces.
The question of whether Arab
countries, Saudi Arabia, in
particular, will provide funds “will
depend on how successful we are in
our efforts to get foreign forces out
of Lebanon and to have an
independent Lebanon emerge,”
Shultz told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee.
“At this point we are not there
yet," Shultz added. He noted that
“people who are thinking about
putting money in there are waiting
to see what happens.”
Shultz’s comments were made in
response to a question from Sen.
Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) who
wondered whether the loss in oil
revenue because of the cut in
production and drop in oil prices
might affect the Saudi's ability to
help Lebanon financially.
Shultz replied that while the
Saudis suffered "the latest blow” as
the largest oil producer in the
world, “they are not broke by a
long shot." He said Saudi assets
are “so large" they can fulfill any
commitments.
Shultz testified before the
committee on the general
international economic situation
and did not discuss foreign aid
specifically, a subject on which he
will testify before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee
tomorrow.
But when Pressler asked why the
foreign aid grant to Israel in the
proposed 1984 budget was reduced
from this year’s amount, the
secretary replied that the Reagan
administration sought “a balanced
program," trying to provide for the
needs of Israel as well as that of
other countries.
He noted that Israel's “overall
share is very large" and that the
amount recommended was what
President Reagan felt was the
“appropriate number."
The administration is asking
Congress to provide Israel $1485
billion in the 1984 fiscal year, of
which S550 million of the SI.7
billion In military aid and all of the
S785 million in economic aid
would be a grant.
Congress this year approved
S850 million as a grant in military
aid over the administration's
objections.
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