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...Israelis, not the Diaspora. Nor were those assailing the government exclusively members of the Labor opposition. The right-win newspaper Maariv wrote: "This whole affair, which outrages and disgusts, cannot be ended simply by a statement of sorrow. Someone is responsible here and has to take the consequences." And Eitan Haber, military correspondent for the pro-Begin paper Yediot Ahronot claimed: "Government ministers and senior commanders already knew during the hours of Thursday night and Friday morning that a terrible massacre was taking place...and they did not lift a finger to prevent the massacre until Saturday morning...
...against Palestine Liberation Organization strongholds in southern Lebanon. That assault was narrowly averted last week, though perhaps not for long. TIME has learned that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, in a last-minute decision, rejected a plan by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan that could have led to war in Lebanon...
Sharon and Eitan had recommended a modest attack on Palestinian strongholds in retaliation for the entry into the occupied West Bank a few days earlier of a six-man P.L.O. squad from Jordan. The problem, Begin concluded, was that given the state of tension, a small-scale Israeli action would lead to a sharp counterthrust by the P.L.O. and then to a full-scale assault on Lebanon by Israeli forces. For that reason, Begin decided to set aside the proposal - at least...
...aretz described as "overdramatized," defense ministry officials declared since participants in the raid had been trained in Lebanon, the P.L.O. in effect had violated the July 1981 truce in southern Lebanon. As government radio and television commentators cried out Sharon against the summoned P.L.O. "provocation," Sharon summoned Eitan and a small group of generals and intelligence officers. Israeli tanks and troops were al ready moving north. Sharon decided that he and Eitan should take their plan for a limited attack on P.L.O. positions in southern Lebanon to the Cabinet committee responsible for defense and foreign affairs. Begin, in the meantime...
...meeting: to ponder what Israel should do in the event that the attack taking place 515 miles away should fail. Half an hour later, after several options had been considered, a telephone call interrupted the Cabinet meeting. It was Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Rafael Eitan. He tersely informed Begin that the attack had been a total success. For a further 70 minutes, the Cabinet considered how Israel should cope with the lesser danger of one of the Israeli warplanes being shot down or crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call...