Word: drory
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Despite this and other indications of mass murder, Yaron failed to report the information to his superior, General Drori, that night or the following day. Afterward, when everyone knew about the massacre, Yaron told colleagues that "the whole [military] system showed insensitivity." He added, "I did badly, I admit it." The commission agreed. It recommended that Yaron should not serve as a field commander for at least three years...
...commission decided that no action should be taken against the head of Mossad (whose identity is never disclosed), since he had served as the agency's director for only four days at the time of the massacre. The commission also recommended that no action be taken against General Drori, who had made some effort to get the Phalangists out of the camps, even though he had failed to "continue with these actions...
...operation. This was already some 24 hours after the massacre in the camps had begun. Sharon said Eitan told him that the Lebanese Forces had harmed Palestinian civilians "more than had been anticipated." Added Eitan: "They went too far." Accordingly, Sharon testified, Eitan and the northern front commander, Amir Drori, had prevented additional Christian forces from entering the fighting areas and had ordered the Lebanese Forces out of the camps by 5 a.m., Sept...
...meeting with the Israelis on Sept. 16, Fady Frem said Hobeika would take his men into the Shatila camp, and both men said there would be a kasach (in Arabic, a chopping or slicing operation). General Drori ignored the evident implications of this remark and the go-ahead was given. Later Drori telephoned Sharon in Tel Aviv: "Our friends are moving into the camps. I coordinated their entrance with their top men." Replied Sharon: "Congratulations . . . The friends' operation is authorized." The Israeli Cabinet and Begin, who were getting only the information that Sharon wanted to pass on, then approved...
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sharon told the Knesset that it was not until Friday morning that senior Israeli officers first became suspicious about what was happening in the camps. The Defense Minister said that Major General Drori ordered an immediate stop to the action. Sharon thus claimed that he had not learned of possible trouble until the morning after the Thursday-night report cited by the Jerusalem Post's Goodman. But, as Sharon said, the militias did not leave the camps until Saturday morning; during the interim, the killings were continuing. On Friday afternoon, a group...