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...meantime, reports TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, the secret Israeli operation began in May 1976 when three Israeli missile boats sailed from Haifa to Jounieh Bay, near the Christian "capital" north of Beirut. Aboard one boat was Yitzhak Rabin, then the Israeli Premier, and his Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. Soon the Israelis were joined by two boats from the mainland, one carrying Camille Chamoun, then a Lebanese Cabinet minister, the other carrying Lebanese Christian Phalangist Party Leader Pierre Gemayel-both boats guided and guarded by Israeli frogmen. Though the two Lebanese Christians, leaders of competing factions, refused to meet with...
...Publicly, Jerusalem made a big show of the food and medical aid-and even jobs-it began offering Christians from south Lebanon. "This became the 'shop window' of our aid to the Christians," a former Israeli Cabinet minister told Halevy. "But our main interest was the Beirut-Jounieh area and the mountains of Lebanon-the Christian fortress...
...finally kissed. Everyone was smiling. In the car on the way back to Beirut, the Palestinian commander said: 'I wish they had done this from the beginning, moving into both sides. I hope they never leave Lebanon.' The Syrians, however, were received coolly in Christian areas. At Jounieh civilians on the roadside looked grim, and two militiamen standing with their guns dangling stared in amazement as the tanks rolled...
...verge of defeat by the Palestinians and the Moslem leftists. Through contacts among intelligence agents in Cyprus, the Lebanese Christians put in a desperate request to Jerusalem for arms and ammunition. By May-shortly before Syrian army units began moving into Lebanon-a regular supply line from Israel to Jounieh and other northern Lebanese ports was in operation. The matériel included not only ammunition and light arms like the U.S. M-16 rifle but such heavy weapons as armored personnel carriers, Russian 122-mm. rockets and at least 22 T-54 tanks captured...
Strange Visitors. The arrangement between the Lebanese groups and Israel was reconfirmed only two weeks ago, when Peres made his fourth trip to Jounieh. This time he met with top Lebanese leaders, including former President Camille Chamoun and President-elect Elias Sarkis, both Christians, as well as Moslem former Premier Rashid Karami. The talks went so well that Peres decided to spend the night, sleeping on a cargo ship anchored off Jounieh. The next day the meetings went on with an ever-widening group of Christians and Moslems. "There were some strange visitors to see Peres," said one source, hinting...