From: gmeltzne@jarthur.claremont.edu (manu)
Subject: Re: More shelling of Lebanese villages
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 20:11:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.155549.23741@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem) writes:
>
>ANOTHER ISRAELI SOLDIER KILLED IN LEBANON CLASH
>
>BEIRUT, April 7 (DPA) -- An Israeli soldier was killed and several
>wounded today in a clash with Muslim militiamen on the edge of Israeli
>occupied security zone in eastern Lebanon.
>
>A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance, the military arm of the
>Hezbollah, said the soldiers were on patrol when they were intercepted
>by the resistance on a hill. 
>
>Following the clash, Israeli artillery and gunners of Israel's surrogate
>militia, the South Lebanon Army pounded parts of the Bekaa Valley,
>inflicting damage and casualties.
>
>Israeli gunners have been shelling Muslim villages adjacent to the
>'security zone' since last night in retaliation for a Hezbollah attack
>on an Israeli motorcade which killed two soldiers.
>
>Israeli intelligence units fanned across the villages today and rounded
>up hundreds of residents suspected of collaborating with yesterday's attackers.
>
>The sudden escalation in violence on the border prompted thousands of
>residents to flee, seeking safety in Beirut and the north of Lebanon.
>
>The festive mood which usually prevails in the southern Lebanese town of
>Nabatieh during Eid Al-Fitr was disrupted today by an uneasy calm.
>
>The crowds of Muslim families who normally escape the hustle of Beirut
>to spend Eid Al-Fitr in the south remained absent from the Nabatieh
>area, sited close to the border with Israel.
>
>The children of southern Lebanon were not even allowed to buy fire
>crackers and celebrate the Eid as they usually do.
>
>"We want to be able to distinguish real explosions of Israeli artillery
>from the thuds of fireworks," said Munthir Hajj, 40, a father of three
>children. The anxiety came to the backdrop of fears that the Jewish
>neighbors might be planning to cross the border at any moment.
>
>Hezbollah said yesterday's attack was in response to the killing in
>February of its secretary-general, Sheikh Abbas Mousawi, by Israeli forces.
>
>[Arab News, April 8, 1992]
>
>*******
>
>It sounds like the Lebanese could use a "security zone" in Israeli to
>relieve themselves of the almost daily pounding of their villages by the
>Israelis and the rounding up of their friends, neighbors, and relatives.
>I wonder when was the last time that Israelis had to flee by the
>thousands from their homes because of bombardment from Lebanon? Is there
>any wonder why Israel will not allow U.N. peacekeeping forces in there
>zone of occupation?
>
>Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)

	It sounds like the Lebanese would do well to get rid of the Hezbollah
and its associates.  Israel doesn't get bombarded by Lebanon because the
terrorist groups that attack her, don't (thank God) have access to planes
and howitzers.  If the terrorists stop killing Israelis, launching Katyushas,
etc. I bet that Israel would stop the shelling, etc.

							-Manu
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