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This time, it appeared, the Defense Minister's strategy was to place the primary blame for the events that led to the mass murder on Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan and the Israeli army. Beyond that, Sharon seemed to be implying that the entire Begin Cabinet bore the responsibility for allowing the Lebanese Forces to enter the Palestinian camps...
Sharon said that he first learned of the massacre when he received a telephone call from Chief of Staff Eitan at about 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 17, informing him of irregularities in the Lebanese Forces' 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...
Sharon told the commission that he was satisfied with what Eitan had done and therefore took no action on his own. Nor did he inform Prime Minister Begin that evening of what Eitan had told him. Sharon said it was "reasonable" to have assumed that it would take all night to get the Lebanese Forces to leave the camps. After receiving additional reports during the night of trouble inside the camps, Sharon said, he tried to reach Begin for the first time on Saturday morning. But the Prime Minister was attending Rosh Hashana services in a Jerusalem synagogue, and apparently...
...requesting a leave of absence in protest over the killings. (He has since relented.) Mitzna bluntly told Sharon, "I have lost faith-in-you." More than 100 top Israeli officers, including everyone above the rank of brigadier general, met behind closed doors with Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan on Sept. 24 to complain about Sharon. A group of reservists opposed to the Lebanon invasion addressed a petition to Sharon last week signed by 1,000 of them, including 150 officers, asking not to be sent to Lebanon...
...evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan arrived and was told by his officers that whatever was going on inside the camps was not a military action but a kasach...