bombs and other ghastly scenes which are shown from time to time on our television screens, The Israeli invaders may make their final assault any time. But let there be no mistake about it: the few thousand heroic Lebanese and Palestinian I-esistance fighters are determined to turn an invaded Beirut into a vast cemetery for the invaders. Their will is unflinching and their resolve unbreakable. They have already recorded one of the great epics of this century during the past two months, because they are fighting for a just cause against great odds in repelling arrogant and heedless aggression. They are not attacking Tel Aviv. They are not attacking any other Israeli city. They are defending Beirut, the capital of a sovereign indepen- dent State. 67. It is not for the Palestinians to leave or the Leb- anese to go wandering into the wilderness of nowhere instead of staying in or returning to their homeland. It is for the Israeli army to withdraw to where it came from, and particularly those forces engaged around Beirut, as the French-Egyptian draft resolution pro- vides in section A, operative paragraph 2, as a first step towards the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon and the simultaneous withdrawal of Palestinian armed forces to an agreed distance. 68. The major goal of section A of the draft resolu- tion is to avert a colossal carnage of the civilian inhab- itants of Beirut, which all decent and ethical people must support, and the restoration of exclusive control by Lebanon over its capital and, thereafter, through- out its entire territory within its internationally rec- ognized boundaries-no enclaves, which are subter- fuges for Israeli control from which we have been suffering for the past five years. Otherwise, the situa- 
**Analysis**
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