The World - News from Dec. 29, 1985
If diplomatic persuasion fails, Israel should use force to remove Syrian anti-aircraft missiles from Lebanon, Israeli Science Minister Gideon Patt told Israel radio. Patt, a member of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s rightist Likud Bloc, noted that Israel wiped out Syria’s surface-to-air missiles in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley at the start of its 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and he said Israeli might again “have to act in similar fashion.” In Damascus, the Syria government news paper Tishrin said in an editorial that Syria and Israel are “on a collision course” and indicated that the missiles will remain in place.
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