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...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...
...Jerusalem, has testified that he relied on four sources for his reporting that revenge was discussed at Sharon's meeting with the Gemayels in the Lebanese town of Bikfaya. These sources included an Israeli intelligence officer with access to notes taken at the meeting who told Halevy that Bashir's father had declared to Sharon that his son's death should be avenged. Halevy also said that another source, an Israeli general, informed him that Sharon told Phalangist leaders that same day that Bashir's murder was a "Palestinian-Syrian conspiracy" and that the act "should not be left without...
...inquiry found that Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
TIME stands by the substance of the paragraph in question: that "Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known." TIME did not say, and has never said, that Sharon intended that the Phalangists commit a massacre, or encouraged such a massacre...