Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 47)
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- Democratic Palestine : 27 (ص 47)
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In March of the same year, links were forged between Father
Joseph Awad (the leading Phalangist proponent in the US) and
American Zionist leaders, with the blessing of Israeli Foreign
Minister Sharett. US Zionist organizations sponsored a trip by
Awad to Lebanon and his campaign among Lebanese Chris-
tians for a non-belligerency pact with the Zionist state, in op-
position to the Lebanese government’s official stand. As a
result of Awad’s canvassing, Shulamith Schwartz of the
American Zionist Council reported to Sharett in 1950 that «the
great majority of Lebanese Americans are violently opposed to
the present government of Lebanon» and urged contact to the
Phalangists. Sharett in turn addressed a memorandum to
Walter Eytan, director-general of the foreign ministry: «... this
group is worthy of serious attention on our part. The picture
drawn in this presentation - the taking out of Lebanon from
the pan-Arab circle and its affiliation with Israel - is extremely
heartwarming and opens the door to a far-reaching realign-
ment in the whole structure of the Middle East...»
The Zionist state donated $3,000 for bribes and vote-buying
to the Phalangists’ 1951 election campaign, but the results
showed that expectations of the Phalangists’ following were
grossly inflated; they gained not one seat in the parliament.
Subsequent Israeli plans recognized the need for military force
to impose fascist hegemony and Zionist control of the coveted
Litani River waters. One such plan was that of Moshe Dayan,
which was recorded in Sharett’s diary on May 16, 1954: «Ac-
cording to him (Dayan), the only thing that’s necessary is to
find an officer, even just a major. We should either win his
heart or buy him with money, to make him agree to declare
himself the saviour of the Maronite population. Then the
Israeli army will enter Lebanon, will occupy the necessary ter-
ritory, and will create a Christian regime which will ally itself
with Israel. The territory from the Litani southward will be
Commemorating the martyrs of the Sabra-Shatila massre - victims of Zionist-
fascist collaboration
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totally annexed to Israel and everything will be all right»
(quoted in Livia Rokach, Israel’s Sacred Terrorism, 1980).
Aside trom historical interest, the above-mentioned facts
serve mainly to belie the intertwined fascist-Zionist propagan-
da lies such as that the Lebanese Christians intrinsicly need
protecting and that ‘Israel’ has no interests in Lebanon except
maintaining its own security. In fact, the Zionist-fascist
alliance and partitionist, sectarian plans preceded the rise of
the armed, organized Palestinian resistance by over a decade.
In these years, Christian, especially Maronite, predominance
in the Lebanese state and army, as established by French col-
Onialism, was very much intact.
INFILTRATING LEBANON
In the seventies, the Israelis actively cultivated contacts with
rightist Christians in South Lebanon, at a time when Rafael
(Raful) Eitan, later chief of staff in the 1982 invasion, was
head of the Israeli army’s northern command. «General
Avigdor Ben Gal, who took over the northern command from
Raful, added momentum and sophistication to the project. It
was he who created Major Haddad, not the man himself, but
Haddad as the representative of a concept, namely Israeli in-
tervention in Lebanon through maximum control. To this end.
the same kitchen supplied the Christians in the north and
Haddad’s men in the south. Both sides received tanks and
heavy artillery. Both were supplied with Israeli-made army
fatigues... Mossad operated in the north and the army in the
south of Lebanon. In September 1977, Major Haddad’s men
for the first time took part in an Israeli military operation, the
conquest of Tel Sueifa» (H. Hecht, Monitin, April 1983).
From the beginning, the Israeli alliance with the Lebanese
fascists merged with the CIA’s activities. While the Zionists
were cultivating their man in South Lebanon, the CIA was
grooming the chieftain who would facilitate Zionist infiltration
of the rest of Lebanon - Bashir Gemayel, son of Phalangist
Party head Pierre Gemayel and commander of the fascist
militias. According to Bob Woodward’s just published book,
VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA: 1981-1987, Bashir was
recruited by the CIA when he came to work in a US law firm in
the earlv 1970s; he remained on the CIA payroll for years.
The Zionists’ military alliance with the fascists in the North
was cemented during the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war. In line
with the US’s post-Vietnam. Kissinger-directed policy, ‘Israel’
joined the CIA and some Arab reactionary regimes in suppor-
ting the fascist militias, hoping they would eliminate the
Palestinian revolution and its ally, the Lebanese National
Movement. In early 1976, officials of the two main fascist
parties, the Phalangists and the National Liberal Party (NLP)
of Chamoun, met Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and Foreign
Minister Allon. Weaponry, including tanks, flowed into the
fascist-controlled harbor at Jounieh, as Defense Minister
Peres assumed responsibility for the funding transferred by
the Mossad. Bashir Gemayel and Dany Chamoun, com-
manders of the Phalange militias and the NLP’s Tigers,
respectively, visited the Zionist state. In Rabin’s three-year
term, $150 million in military aid was given to the ‘Christian’
militias (Schiff, Ze’ev and Ehud Ya’ari, Israel’s Lebanon War,
1984, p. 18). Zionist military advisors were present in the
fascists’ operations room directing the battle for Tel Al Zaatar, p®
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