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...throughout the following day, reports reached a number of Israeli officers and enlisted men of trouble within the camps, but top Israeli military men ignored or underplayed these warnings. The report concluded that as late as 4 p.m. Friday, when he met with Phalangist commanders, Chief of Staff Eitan told them they should "continue the action, mopping up the empty camps" until 5 a.m. Saturday, by which time they must leave the camps because of "American pressure." It was not until Friday evening that Eitan reported to Sharon, according to the Defense Minister, that the Phalangists had "gone...
...neck, in order to rejoin his platoon; during the 1967 war he commanded the audacious Golani Brigade, which seized seemingly unassailable Syrian positions. Since then, he has proved similarly dauntless in inquiries into episodes of possible army misconduct. As a former aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, Efrat also hesitated before joining the commission...
Mofaz told the court that according to another officer, the tough West Bank mea sures were sanctioned by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Mofaz's lawyer now has presented to the military court two memorandums that were written by Chief of Staff Eitan. Though the documents were not released by the court, a summary of their contents has been published in Israeli newspapers. In one memorandum, Eitan recommended expulsion from the West Bank for convicted demonstrators and stone throwers. He also called for "preventive arrests," harassment of suspected troublemakers, punishment for the parents of teen-age protesters and economic sanctions...
...Eitan has insisted that his orders were all legal. He has also contended that during his five years as Chief of Staff, fewer Arabs were expelled from the West Bank and fewer Palestinian homes were destroyed by the Israeli forces as methods of maintaining order than in previous years...
...Jerusalem, the official investigation of the Beirut massacre continued, and once again the commission of inquiry heard testimony that appeared to contradict the previous statements of Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Lieut. Colonel Ze'ev Zeharin, an aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, testified that he was "100% sure" Sharon first spoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, two days before the massacre began, about the plan for Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the Palestinian camps. Sharon had testified that he first broached the subject on the following day. Zeharin also said Eitan had told him that...