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...policies are more disturbed by the worldwide denunciation of Israel provoked by the war in Lebanon. Jews who were and still are dismayed by the Israeli invasion frequently charge that biased reporting exaggerated its horrors. Says Randall Czarlinsky, St. Louis director of the American Jewish Committee: "It was after Tyre, after the seemingly terrible killing and casualty figures started flowing in, that the deep doubts began to arise" in the American Jewish community. Subsequent reports, greatly lowering the estimates of civilian casualties, reassured many American Jews that the Israeli forces were not being as cruel as the early TV pictures...
...refrain from making statements in his name. It was only the beginning of the Americans' troubles. Representatives Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, both of Lebanese descent and both persistent critics of Israel, told the press that the damage they had seen in Tyre and Sidon was the worst that they had ever observed in any war area, only to have to admit they had never seen any other war areas. The group proved to be totally out of its depth too when meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who chided his visitors...
...P.L.O. commander put it, is "to keep up a war of attrition that the Israelis will not be able to tolerate for long." But Israeli anti-terror squads were confident that they could wipe out the guerrilla threat with mopping-up operations in the low-lying hills between Tyre and Damur. According to Israeli intelligence officials, the area is "far from being free of the terrorists, but the situation is improving...
...scorched jets on the runway. To the left stands Shuweifat, where Ahmed is on patrol. The vantage point is Israeli headquarters, a secondary school beside a music conservatory. Armored vehicles rest in the parking lot. It is here that one must arrange for an escort to the south, to Tyre. The trip is scheduled for Sunday. The Israeli officer is helpful. He laments the war. "The world has not been fair to the Palestinians." He tells of a Palestinian mother, the wife of a P.L.O. officer, who escaped West Beirut with her baby and came to the Israeli headquarters...
...last hours in West Beirut. Tomorrow the journey south, first The last hours in West Beirut. Tomorrow the journey south, first to Sidon, then to Tyre, to try to find Samer. It is difficult to tell why this quest remains important. A four-year-old, his father dead. What does one have to tell him? What does he have to say to anyone? Still, he offers a goal, a purpose, in a place where purposes are hard to come by or confused. This day, then, will offer one last look at the torn half city. There is an odd sense...