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BY MAiER ASHER
- JERUSALEM — Israel has redoubled her vigilance in cas^
>the recent Arab'League decision to send Libyan^ Algerian, Egyptian and other Arab forces to Lebanon is exploited by the Arabs to try to lauch a surprise attack as they did on' Yom Kippur, 1973.
Th6 movements of IraQitroc^s, which have been reported to be advahcing , tbwards the Syrian frontier, are also being subjected
: to intense scrutiny
newly-built 45,000-tdn aircraft ||ff S<P*-^fir^^ carrier, Kiev; and its cohiplemeAt> Xebahon have stayed to the north
.of VTOL (Vertical Take-off and ?tofJ:||ti|j^d Landing) jets. , \ a long way from Israel's border.
This may be an alarming sign, ^HoWeviSri:^ : &e ; situation fkcould
since it has now been learnt i;(^li|urtge§p^
that the Russians have asked Jiyoif^i^iM^i^^
Turkey for permission for Soviet &jiaiiQjf^
aircraft to'overfly, Turkish ter- Israeli: military experts have ritory en route to Syria. -repeatCM^
Israel is maintaining close an* siiiivblym constant touch witfi the' United ~ ' by any means diminished her
States, and consultations between JrkbilitpW f o|^^ them about th6^ Middle East sit- Israel,^ either, on the Golan Heights
uation, particularly^ the course* JJ^<»i^Jv^^iieiF|^^ of the civil war in Lebanon and way from Mount Hermon in the ^; However, Israel iias learnt the Syria's intervention, are continu- north to the Gulf of Akaba In lessons of the Yom TCiwiur War- juig almost non-stop.^ the south. " '
very well,-^rid her-regular forces Isr-aerhas.intimated to.Syria ^ Arab Volatility, coupled with are sufficient to pope with any through the. United States that unremitting enmi^ towards emergency that may arise. it'considers the Litani BiveTr in Israel,- could easily bring this
Another similarity with 1973 Lebanon to be the^ "red line" about, is the Soviet naval build-up in that mu^t not be over-stepped Nevertheless, there seems to the^ Easteritt^ Mediterranean. The and that any move by Arab forces be no reason at present for Israel
RWiaVis now have some ?5 war- south of ihe line would be regarded . to change her policy of non-
" ■ • At'the
^ |iar| SfMp^n;^ Iwatelif^ ii%^^tfRi!5$iaq
- have-reluctaritly been suj^rt-
i:?i<M^fMi^p'^ti|i^^ pointing oiit^t^^^ Syrians had inteif^ehed in Ldba to st<» th^-blo«i
FiBLIX ARONOVICH of Leningrad posw.to show how he fe.wp against a wall of Soviet exit refusals. His wife Alia was recently ffiven » visa to join his "motherland brother jwho have already reached freedom, but t1k<i 45 year-old mechanical «n{fneer won-
dehr if he will ever see Ws chllj, ^ho in ' ^ , VshTpa, tfie ^rea; including the as a threat to Israel's security, intei-vention in. Lebanon.
. . v>,(8tudiettt Struggle foi^ Soviet Jewr->_ - . . same time there is every
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.yypria:.war. ^ i* . »"« . "* ""^ 2,000 who remained when the. current civU^.war began.
■ tee: in ^ Jetusalon ; > x)n t^e -basis of ey^^itness reports, Only 12 ^Jews are known to have been killed as accident-al-victims;cf the guhfire^in Beirut, which ;als6 forced the Jewish schools to close. The remainihg rJews;would like to leave, but have difficulty ro a ki n g arrangenients; be-caiise of the general hreak-r down^of all services. - -
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