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...battles began when Israeli troops, in reprisal for the deaths of six people at fedayeen hands, attacked guerrilla bases in "Fatahland" between the Hasbani River and Lebanon's Syrian border. The raids were almost surgical, reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit to the village of Rashaya al Foukhar, one of five communities that the Israelis occupied overnight. Alerted by the sound of a spotter plane and the thud of incoming artillery rounds, the 500 Christian villagers had taken refuge in their church. Israeli soldiers dynamited 15 houses, twelve of which had been occupied by guerrillas, and bulldozed...
Concealed Cache. Responding to those demands, a column of tanks and armored half-tracks clattered across the Lebanese border toward guerrilla strongholds. The Israeli troops encountered little resistance at first and quickly entered six villages near the Hasbani River. The soldiers gave villagers leaflets with a pointed verse from an old Arab poem: "Whoever sows thorns will not harvest grapes and whosoever lights fires is likely to get burned...
Vicious Circle. The Arabs were met at another of their "summits" to seek agreement on a plan to 1) divert the tributary streams of the Hasbani, Yarmuk and Banias rivers so that they would no longer flow into the Jordan to be used by Israel, and 2) create a united Arab military force sufficiently strong to meet the inevitable Israeli attack that would follow...
Lebanon's President-elect Charles Helou dragged his feet on diverting the Hasbani River, pointing out that his small, 8,000-man army was no match for Israel. Lebanon, Syria and Jordan were ready to increase their armed forces by 30%, as demanded by Egypt's General Ali Amer, commander in chief of the projected Arab army, but complained that they could not pay for it alone. Iraq's Abdul Salam proposed that Amer be authorized to move Arab forces anywhere in Arab territories during a time of danger. This started a wrangle in which it became...
...emerging Arab strategy was not. The summit meeting placed on Jordan, Syria and reluctant Lebanon the burden of controlling the headwaters and tributaries of the Jordan River that rise in their territory. By constructing dams and canals, the Arab states can divert the 'flow of the Yarmuk, Banias, Hasbani and Dan rivers, and thereby reduce the water level of the Jordan far below Israel's requirements...