Word: beirutization
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Within the narrow focus of the Israeli Commission of Inquiry's report on the Beirut massacres was lost the larger issue of Lebanon, a nation which is now struggling to rebuild itself out of a shattered past. On this point the Israeli sense of responsibility seems to be lacking since it is apparent that recent Israeli action has worked more towards hindering this effort rather than aiding it. Although the leaders of Israel claim to be aware of the fundamental need for a strong and independent Lebanon, their policies belie their words. Israel has long harbored ambitions of fragmenting Lebanon...
...claim that the Phalangists bear "sole responsibility" for the Beirut massacres. Mr. Marks appears to have utterly missed the thrust of my argument when he quotes the inquiry report to support the above proposition. To reiterate the argument for his and others benefit: the factual findings of the commission of inquiry clearly substantiate that the Israelis provided extensive logistical support to the Phalangists. Reading the full record, one is left with the distinct impression that the Israeli military all but pulled the triggers, and swings the axes, which caused the deaths of over 1000 Palestinian and Lebunese civilians...
...commission and apparently subscribed to by Mr. Mak is not only an insult to commonsense, but to international legal principles as well. He might be reminded that German financiers and industrialists, whose contributions to the Nazi war machine were far less direct than the Israelis' contributory role in the Beirut massacres, were indicted and tried in the Nuremberg Trials. Moreover, Article 3(e) of the U.N. Convention on Genocide regards complicity in genocide to be a punishable act; there is little question that Israel's acts rise to the level of such complicity...
Reported by James Shepherd/ London and William Stewart/ Beirut...
Safire has two seemingly all-but-blind loyalties. One is to Israel, for which he admits to being an unyielding apologist, though he called for the resignation of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon within days of the September 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Israeli-supervised camps in Beirut. The other devotion is to his Nixon White House colleagues, on whose behalf he has unabashedly likened Watergate to comparatively trivial scandals that he rechristened Lancegate, Billygate, Franklingate, Rheingate and even, in a term that some might use to describe his own rhetoric once in a while, Doublebillingsgate...