Word: bashir
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...same way, it made no direct mention of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and formally annexed in 1981, leaving the Syrians with no incentive to cooperate. Then, scarcely a fortnight after the plan was announced, came the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, the Israeli move into West Beirut, and the massacre of an estimated 700 to 800 Arab civilians by Lebanese Christian militiamen. Angry that their military victory in Lebanon was turning into a political disaster, the Israelis set back the timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. They were...
...curious relationship between Amin Gemayel and the Christian troops explains the delay in reaching an agreement. The Phalangist Party was founded by Amin's father Pierre, and its militia is the dominant group in the Lebanese Forces, the combined Christian militia. Amin's brother Bashir, who was assassinated last September a few days before he was due to be inaugurated as Lebanon's President, was head of the Lebanese Forces. But Amin Gemayel, who became President in his brother's place, was never as close to the militia as either Pierre or Bashir, and as President...
...known as Appendix B, was not published at all, mainly for security reasons. That section contains the names of several intelligence agents referred to elsewhere in the report. TIME has learned that it also contains further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination. 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 for the assassination...
...ignored the President's request for a freeze on West Bank settlements, and only four days later conspicuously gave the O.K. for eight new settlements in the occupied territories. What especially infuriated U.S. officials was Israel's entry into West Beirut after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel. The move broke a pledge made to Washington, and created the conditions in which Sharon and his commanders could be held indirectly accountable for the Beirut massacre that began one day later...
...commission found that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)--which entered West Beirut to "maintain the peace" after the assasination of Christian President-elect Bashir Gemayel--erred dramatically on two counts. The force ordered the Christian Phalangists into the camps without taking into account their history of violent excesses and desire for vengeance. And once the slaughter was underway, the Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop it, despite repeated signs and indeed reports that a carnage was taking place...