Israeli Aggression

"Israeli aggression in southern Lebanon is a testimony to the expansionism inherent in Zionist ideology." Clovis Maksoud said last night in a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Arab society.

Maksoud, a Lebanese citizen who is currently a visiting professor at Georgetown University, was received enthusiastically by the predominantly Arab audience of about 150 at Science Center C.

Maksoud said the Israelis used the recent Palestinian raid as a pretext for acquisition of land south of the Litani River that Israel has long coveted.

The Israelis also wanted to "flex their muscle on the weaker links of Arab national contingency," and to end the current move toward national reconciliation in Lebanon, Maksoud said.

The invasion served other purposes. Maksoud added--to cover up evidence of the internal security failure shown by the Palestinian attack, and to draw attention away from the fact that most of the civilians who were killed in the raid were actually shot by Israeli police in crossfire.