re rejoinder questions to israelis in article jcpltyo jcpl co jp ohayon jcpltyo jcpl co jp tsiel ohayon writes in article apr freenet carleton ca aa freenet carleton ca steve birnbaum writes and in the attack was a response sb to years of constant shelling by terrorist organizations from the golan sb heights children were being murdered all the time by terrorists and israel sb finally retaliated nowhere do i see a war that israel started so that sb the borders could be expanded i agree with all you write except that terrorist orgs were not shelling israel from the golan heights in but rather from lebanon tsiel i would contend that there was shelling from both sides of the border starting from the early s certainly the plo did shell northern israel from the arqoub region but israel did much more shelling destroying several south lebanese villages at the very least we can say that both sides exchanged shelling with occasional aerial raids by israel on lebanese villages in any case steve s characterization that the invasion was only in response to years of shelling from lebanon is false israel had many reasons for invading but mainly it did so to install a government in lebanon favorable to israel and it nearly achieved this aim with the election of basheer el gemayel and his brother amin el gemayel but the internal situation in lebanon was too hard to control and predict so israel had to withdraw and amin el gemayel had to abrogate the th of may agreement tsiel tsiel ohayon jcpl co jp if you do not receive this e mail please let me employer may not have same know as soon as possible if possible opinions if any two percent of zero is almost nothing basil
