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...forces and that he had no intention of removing them. With equal vehemence, Israel insisted that the presence of the missiles was an unacceptable violation of the tacitly accepted status quo in Lebanon's complex political equation and that they had to be removed. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "There are possibilities that the problem will be solved peacefully, or otherwise"-meaning, clearly, by resorting to military action...
There was ample cause for Israelis to be concerned. The country was beset by internal troubles and a burning foreign crisis. Concern about a possible new war with Syria was on everyone's mind. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's transitional government, charged with guiding the country until the June 30 elections, found itself embroiled in a growing campaign controversy over Israel's actions in Lebanon. On Independence Day Begin declared in a broadcast that it would take a "miracle" to induce Syria by diplomacy alone to remove the SA-6 antiaircraft missiles it has placed in Lebanon...
...another social analyst, Rafael Gill, the director of Public Opinion Research of Israel, is the way the public has lost faith in the politicians and the political parties. Gill reports that most Israelis are unconvinced that things would be any better under Shimon Peres than they have been under Menachem Begin...
...Ridge over the weekend. The Ministerial Defense Committee, a top-level assembly of generals and senior Cabinet officials, adopted a bold policy: military warning strikes against the Syrians in Lebanon. The Syrian choppers were downed within hours of that meeting. In a combative statement the same evening, Prime Minister Menachem Begin threatened more of the same. Said he: "We will not tolerate a Syrian takeover in Lebanon, and we will not let the Syrians wipe out the Christians there. There are grounds to assume that we will not be content with this action...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 67, was visibly tired and strained from the tensions of the confrontation with Syria last week. In the midst of feverish diplomatic efforts to head off a further escalation, he discussed the crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman in his wood-paneled office and conveyed the impression that he was seeking a face-saving way for both countries to step back from the brink...