M. JAFAR reports.
Ostensibly the raid was in retallation for a minor Palestin an guerrilla operation in which infec luraths wete reboried killed. On 11 November Israeli aircraft struck again. This time mey aucu more tan se peopic On 9 November the Lebanese villages of Aziyeh and Hissiyeh were bombed off the map in less than two hours by Israell Phantom jets, missile boats off the coast, and heavy artillery across the border. Between 100 and 200 civilians were killed and according to WAFA, the Palestinian news agency, three Palestinian commandos.
near the Lebanese city of Tyre.
The swift and "reprisal" attack has long been at important instrument of Israeli policy. A succession attacks have preceded every major Arab-Israeli war in the Lebanese village after the bombs hard-hitting of such Many, at mc. AraD Kibye in Octobor 1953. This was culminate in the 1956 war. village of followed by a succession of raids on Gaza in 1955, which were 10 tension, and These raids have invariably heen used by the Zionist regime attacks "peace demoralised than in Chile, and it without its supporters So far the approach of Martincz de Hoz has prevailed because back IbtO COlCH through what they had initiated and then abandoned ie 1967-65 the poules wero hefore they "eit a up certain But even before the strikes sections of the military — especally the Navy — were beginning id sewe tre palest titer.
wages further as a tactical means of escalating building up the appropriate "climate of opinion' both inside and oorside Israel From the long terin biscorical Dout OE view there is no doab that these latest atacks will fit into the same palter.
But it is mistaken to concinde from this that the tost recen will itimediately IEL anomCr B-Dur AmaD tsac war. For obe thins, the Geneva settlement farce, on hich President Carter ta staked much of his personal reputation, has yet to be played UUI TISSE BIL BIOISE SIBEL has never gone for an all-out war of American imperialism Oo the ather hand, the Arab ruling cinsses, Syria included desperately waot to avoid such a moment.
President Assad of Syris reported to have urged the PLC TD WIEGERM CEOE 8S 09505 10 C0 south in accordance with the Shtoura agreement mode thro montha ago, immediately afte the attack And the spectacle of Sadat of conceding to the Erracis all the procodural obstacles which they JACETCLE Geneva, and promising to nogo late personally in Tel-Aviv ibself 3E ACLCHR MS JOO RACINEI words. The Eeyptan regime's survival is naw completely tiec OP WIE WHAT I CHR BO CHL D Geneva. War in the short terin is complete suicide for it.
SIGNIFICANCE What is the significance of the attacks theo? Israck Prime Minister Begin himsell dropped a hig sald in a public statement to the Egyptian govern ment: succa out con nata co you. EL1 as. you knap hand. The Zionist attack inletideu to unuerline the Istael negotinting stance at Geneva which can be sumed up in the dictum: "Micht is Richt"
lts vast military over the Arab regimes and derived from the consequences of TEWI TOEA TOUCH STECHET ibe Lebanese civil war, are being ToStrca 3a enCiC WREPHET: attacks on helpless civilian targets. The Arah ruling classer are ICH MEHUC SOUCHE bopes for the termis of a 'peace sertlement much above the actua relationsbio of forets, soco in thi crudest of military terme.