Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Winnipeg free september 1981 focus Plo braces for attack by israelis by William Claiborne the Washington Post Lebanon sitting in what is left of his Home in the Labyrinthine palestinian refugee Camp a Kalashnikov Rifle cradled in his Lap and a framed photograph of his dead daughter at his Artia Mira Hassan talks about the inevitability of War with a voice heavy with Resigna has sans his 16 year old were clean ing up after breakfast one morning in july when a 175mm Shell fired from 10 Miles shattered the killing the girl a second Shell nearby Tore open the leg of his it was Early in the 15day Palestin Ian israeli War of and six weeks of a ceasefire mediated by the United nations and the United states has Given Hassan time to Patch up his Home with Cement blocks and sheets of corrugated but he says he expects the shells to fall again it is Only a matter of this time the israelis will bomb us and then come into Lebanon like they did in Hassan referring to the March 1978 israeli push to the Litany River Fol lowing a massacre of israelis by pales Tinian guerrillas on a coastal Road near Tel i can feel their pres ence he in a Coffee House in Yosef Abu a lebanese whose brother was killed in a 1979 israeli looked up to the cloudless summer sky and Why do you think their reconnaissance air planes Are Over Here every Day without they Are getting ready to in the Beirut Headquarters of the popular front for the liberation of near where israeli bombs in july collapsed several palestinian guerrilla Headquarters buildings and civilian apartment killing More than 200 Omar Kadush predicted an israeli invasion of Lebanon in a month or after special Middle East envoy Philip Habib returns with an american peace proposal that the Palestine liberation organization can not attack will come the invasion will not come until after we have rejected the american but it will you will see we Are sure of Kadush a few blocks Shafiq head of the Beirut Plo they Are it Doest make much difference if you get killed by an air plane bomb or an artillery but they Are Plo chief Yasser in a speech Here last said he had information that israelis Are preparing for a Large scale military offensive in Southern there Are now israeli military con Arafat predicts israelis will launch attack on Lebanon soon air and infantry Maneu in Northern Palestine and the Golan there Are continuous preparations to blow up the situation once Arafat said at a Soli Darity conference of palestinians and he said israeli prime minis Ter Menachem begin discussed details of the intended operation with presi Dent Reagan and received a Green and in an apartment in Christian held East Phala Gist party official Karim Pakradouni sketches out a scenario for the weeks ahead the United states proposes a the palestinians and Syria reject it because it is an american Israel tells the United states its plan is not going and they take the military i give it two the spectre of a massive israeli invasion into Southern Lebanon some time in the months ahead is pervasive in it inevitably comes up in conversation with palestinians and even though the lebanese israeli Frontier has been quiet for More than a week and ceasefire violations before then were whether or not it the wide spread fear of an invasion offers an insight into the View Here of israels intentions in a perspective honed by the material and human damage sustained in a decade of continual conflict following the palestinian guerrillas flight Here after being expelled from Jordan in the signs of War fever Are every even if sometimes the French language newspaper Loriente Jour carried a photograph saturday of amphibious armoured vehicles of the 17th battalion of the main military Wing of the Plo being moved to the South from positions near the coastal Beirut suburbs of Mouzai and Baine such movements Are kept Fatah officials were quoted extensively on the battalions an unusual openness Given israels penchant for seizing on such buildups As justification of military strikes into Southern fighting erupted a palestinian source said the 17th battalion had been in the South last Spring when fighting erupted in Beirut and and was moved Here in anticipation of a possible pincer at tack in Central the amphibious units presence became an irritant to local druze of the Mouzai result ing in some and the battalion was returned South on Arafat the source theres a lot More serious stuff than that battalion Down we dont need and its not exactly going to to change the balance of he explaining that the armoured vehicles Are used mainly for Security and that the unit is not regarded As but i suppose it is grist for the red hot weekend special on drives example Chevetta plus Many other special cars and trucks to s 49 q9 5 choose Jar tax 3 till 10 free pickup and delivery Terry Balkan palestinian guerrillas set up antiaircraft guns in Beirut to defend against israeli bombers israeli it is this kind of thing which they will use to justify their the source the deliberate Effort to publicize the coupled with mention by Fatah that a heavy artillery battalion was moved South last suggested that the Plo might have sought to Send a signal to the israelis and the Reagan administration that it regards the buil Dup As above pattern detected Ever since the ceasefire went into israeli army chief of staff Rafael Eitan and other Mili tary leaders have been pointing to a Plo buildup in Southern Lebanon As a ceasefire violation and an indication of palestinian guerrilla even though the Plo insists that its agree ment with in peacekeeping officials to refrain from Cross order attacks does not mention redeployment of Mili tary palestinian officials said that in ret they have detected a pattern of such israeli alarms in the weeks before every infantry incursion into Lebanon or series of preemptive air and that Israel is now launch ing another propaganda Campaign to prepare International opinion for a major Cross order military operation designed to drive the guerrillas far enough North to put them out of Artil Lery Range against israeli towns and when the israeli army withdrew after the 1978 Litany the guerrillas so most Plo officials interviewed said they believe that if Israel attacks it will push All the Way to the Maharani they said they expect the israeli air Force to attack the syrian surface to air missiles that were deployed in the Bekaan Valley on april 29 after israeli jets shot Down two syrian helicopters during syrian Christian a Fatah commander in Nab Atiyah said he expects a combined airborne and infantry with armoured units moving through a Gap in the in peacekeeping Force near the town of where Israel supported Christian militia Leader Saad Haddad has they May occupy Many parts of the but of course they will eventually because occupying that land is not what determines the during the july the israelis lost their nerve and bombed but they were forced to seek a we Are not afraid of the the Fatah commander virtually every palestinian official interviewed in Beirut and the South said they expected president Reagan to give his tacit approval to an israeli attack once habits diplomatic Mission seeking an end to the missile crisis we have not surrendered in this we made no promises that we will not strengthen our but Israel will use that As their pretext for attacking and the United states will go along with said 686 Portage 7867479 Energy prices secession me anxious frustrated is that How you feel about spiralling costs they seem to be out of control and you feel powerless to do anything about whats going to happen to your dreams of or keeping your own being Able to take a Good vacation Ting out of building family or any of her dreams you have in mind it just seems like there getting further and further from your grasp there is a and a proven solution Ita working for i it can work for Youl is an association 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