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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 4, 1986
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Five injured by Katyushas;
Israel retaliates with air raid
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to The Southern Israelite
JERUSALEM—Once again,
Katyusha rockets were fired on the
northern border town of Kiryat
Shentona last week, this time
wounding four school children and
a teacher, one seriously. Though
rockets have fallen on the town a
number of times since last June
when the Israeli army pulled out of
Lebanon, this marked the first
time that Israel had suffered casu
alties from such attacks since the
pullout.
Accordingly, it came as no sur
prise that Israel reacted sharply to
the Kiryat Shemona attack Thurs
day morning, sending its air force
into action just 90 minutes later
against a pair of targets in south
Lebanon. Reports from Lebanon
suggested that eight people were
killed and another 30 wounded.
Early Sunday, three days later,
more Katyushas were fired at the
Galilee but only one missile landed
inside Israel, at Har Dov. There
were no casualties.
What has the Israelis increas
ingly concerned are reports that
Yasir Arafat, head of the PL.O, has
managed to send 1,000 of his men
back to south Lebanon, particu
larly to the refugee camps in Sidon.
The Israeli air attack focused on
that region.
Clearly, the Israelis have no
stomach for another invasion of
Lebanon to root out terrorists. The
price Israel paid in Israeli soldiers
was seen as extremely high, some
650 1DP troops dying during the
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Southern Israelite
Yaacov Ben Y osef
three years of Israeli occupation.
Senior Israeli officials are known
to feel that the government should
act with restraint. To send the IDF
back into south Lebanon would, in
their opinion, serve only to unify
Amal and the PLO, the two main
Arab forces in south Lebanon
w hich for the time being are at each
other's throats.
But. beyond that, now that Is
rael has been out of Lebanon since
June 10. the Israeli population has
enjoyed nine months of “normal”
life without the continuing casu
alties. without the reserve duty,
without the burden on the econ-
omv.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin
was conscious of all this Monday
afternoon when he spoke to the
Foreign Press Association at a
luncheon at the Tel Aviv Hilton. In
a veiled criticism of Israel's three-
year war in Lebanon (from 1982 to
1985). Rabin said: "Terrorism
cannot be finished with one good
w ar."
It was a little-disguised slap at
Menachem Begin. Ariel Sharon
and the other government leaders
who took Israel into Lebanon
nearlv tour years ago.
Rabin made clear that he cannot
promise the residents ot the north
that no Katyushas will ever fall
again in their region. But he assert
ed that there will be no peace on
the south Lebanon side if the shells
tall on the north. "We will pursue
them and strike them wherever
they are,” the defense minister said
shortly after last Thursday’s attack
on Kiryat Shemona.
As for the American attacks on
Libya last week, Israel backed
Washington’s tough measures, eager
ly pointing out that when a major
power like the U.S. acted against a
beachhead of international terror,
as Libya was, it would send a signal
to the rest of the world.
The Israelis were less pleased,
however, with the decision of two
American senators, Gary Hart and
Bennett Johnston, to cancel their
visits to Israel. Both senators con
tended that they had been advised
by their government that it was too
dangerous to visit Israel and the
rest of the Middle East in view of
the Libyan threats against Ameri
can officials.
“How can you say to a senator
don’t come and to tourists, do
come,” Rabin asked angrily at that
same meeting in Tel Aviv. “I don’t
believe such advice should be part
of the policy of fighting terrorism
When you advise senators (like
that), practically you give in to
terrorism.”
Finally, the Knesset on Monday
evening approved the new budget
for 1986 without the usual arguing
The 30.2 billion new shekel budget
(S20 billion) provided a series of
benefits in the form of lowered
taxes that indicated a phasing out
of the austerity measures which
had been introduced a year ago to
curb inflation.
The passage of the budget,
minus the usual acrimony, was due
to the strong political position of
Prime Minister Peres. He had threat
ened last week that if there were
any objections to his proposed
budget he would bring the govern
ment down. There were no prob
lems.
In the wake of the self-de
structive Herut Party convention
three weeks ago when a deadlock
emerged and no vote of confidence
was given to Foreign Minister Y it
zhak Shamir as party leader. Peres
is enjoying a new measure of pop
ularity and political strength.
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