The Editor
Financial Times,
Your article Lesson for Israel published yesterday calls for an explanation. Lebanon should be responsible to curb the Hezbollah. Alas, Lebanon being a “subsidiary” of Syria allows it a free hand. Your article speculates that Israel’s activities will compromise the peace talks. Syria, the most important negotiator with Israel is actively supporting the Hezbollah. To talk peace on the one hand and to terrorize the north of Israel on the other hand is simply unacceptable. And if Lebanon cannot curb the terrorists and Syria does not want to, Israel is left with no alternative but to “do the job” itself.
Comparing the situation to Bosnia is an unjust statement. Muslims in Bosnia had no choice but to flee, just because they were Muslim. [Yes, they fled, inter alia to Israel, not to England]. The Lebanese have a choice. The Hezbollah like any other entity cannot survive within hostile population. Terrorism against Israel flourishes because it is supported by the Shia inhabitants of South Lebanon. Let the Government of Lebanon clean its’ back yard. Let the inhabitants of South Lebanon express their hostility to the terrorist group. Israel will welcome these inhabitants back.
No Israeli is pleased with these mass evacuations. It is unfortunately the lesser of two evils, which alternative can be solved by Syria and Lebanon.
28th July, 1993
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