A representative of the American-Lebanese League in Birmingham, Ala., said that his organization supports and will “continue to support Israeli action in Lebanon until the PLO has been swept from the area,” it was reported to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Israel’s Consul General for Southeastern United States in Atlanta. Ga., Yehoshua Trigor.
The League’s representative, Joseph Boohaker, vice president of the organization for the southern region, spoke at a joint press conference with Trigor last week in Birmingham. The conference was also attended by Padgett Cope, senior minister of the Ruhama Baptist Church in that city, and Dr. Jimmy Harper, regional director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ).
According to Trigor, Boohaker asserted that “Until Syrian and PLO troops are removed, Lebanon cannot have a free democracy and pluralistic society.” Trigor noted that Boohaker’s comments came a week after representatives of the American-Lebanese League, the NCCJ, the Jewish Community Relations Committee of Birmingham, and other Jewish and Christian leaders, issued a statement of support for Israeli military objectives in Lebanon. The statement said that blame for civilian casualties in the Lebanon war “rests squarely on the PLO.”
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