Word: bashir
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TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's former Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan. The massacre of the Palestinians, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. In finding that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance" when he ordered the militiamen into the camps, the Kahan commission concluded that he bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," the commission stated...
...TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and thus bore "indirect responsibility" for what happened; Sharon resigned his Defense post two days after the findings were released...
...paragraph at issue in Sharon's lawsuit comes halfway through the eight- page story; it described a condolence call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after Bashir's death and said that information about the visit was contained in a classified Appendix B to the report. The passage went on to say: "Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge...
...relied on four sources for his report that Sharon conveyed his understanding of the Gemayels' need for revenge at his meeting with them in the Lebanese town of Bikfaya. Halevy said these included an Israeli intelligence officer with access to notes taken at the meeting. He told Halevy that Bashir's father had declared to Sharon that his son's death should be avenged...
...wording in Zadok's letter, and in letters from Kahan and the Israeli Attorney General's office, which suggested that other important documents and information may well exist that TIME was not allowed to see. That material, said Barr, could include minutes of a meeting that Sharon held with Bashir two days before the assassination; the Defense Minister might have learned there of the Phalangists' intentions if they ever entered the Palestinian refugee camps. In response, Gould dismissed Zadok's reservations as a "red herring...