From: davidba@carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami)
Subject: Re: Israel Cancels Building in the West Bank
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:35:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.194437.5200@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem) writes:
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>Alan Stein (AS) writes in response to me (BH):
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>BH>If you know of any Palestinian launched rocket or artillery attacks on
>BH>Israel which have occurred since summer of 1991 (when the Palestinian
>BH>fighters in Lebanon were disarmed) I would be interested to know your
>BH>source of information.
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>AS>I confess that I have not kept a database of the numerous rocket attacks on
>AS>the Galilee launched from Lebanon recently.  One particular attack in the
>AS>last few months that comes to mind, although I forget the names,
>AS>thoughtfully killed a very young (I believe pre-school) girl as she ran to
>AS>greet her father when he came home one day.
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>BH> I have heard of none. Some people (yourself,
>BH>perhaps) have trouble believing things that they don't want to be true.
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>The incident that you mention followed the Israeli assassination of
>Sheikh Abbas Mosavi (who was Secretary General of the Lebanese
>Hezbollah). If you recall, a small number of rockets were launched into
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>Israel, presumably by the Hezbollah. To my knowledge, this was the first
>and only time that Hezbollah has ever launched a rocket attack into
>Israel or attacked Israel directly. The rockets were not launched by
>Palestinians. Furthermore, the strikes into Israel ceased within a week
>of Mosavi's assassination, while Syria and Iran were publicly expressing
>concern about the attacks and pressuring the Hezbollah to concentrate on
>attacking the Israeli occupiers and not on Israel.

  Well, to my knowledge the Hizballa and some Palestinians still left
near the Security Zone launched mo less than 130 Katyushas on northern
Israel after the killing of Mussawi (I guess that's how the name is
pronounced BTW). The launches haven't miraculously "ceased" as you
describe it, they were stopped only because Israel did some heavy
shelling of Hizballa bases and in one village there was a ground attack
by commandoes. Only then did Syria and Iran call their protegees to 
stop (actually to save their necks)

>BTW, you may have noted my recent post concerning the transfer of the
>Hezbollah compound in Baalbek to the Lebanese Army. You should pay more
>attention to what is going on in Lebanon. It is a great mistake to
>confuse the actions of the Lebanese with those of the Palestinians and
>it is a great mistake to ignore the positive developments toward Israeli
>security.

This is a good news if it is true, Israel supports and/or tolerates
what the Syrians do in Lebanon (and actually without our consent it 
wouldn't have benn done). if indeed the Syrians will acquire peace in
Lebanon and keep from crossing Israel's Red Lines I see no reason to
stay in Lebanon. The only problem is how can we guarantee these 2
things.

David.
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