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This account certainly feels factual, but it is fiction, the opening scene of Author John le Carré's disturbing new thriller. The book promises to raise both hair and hackles. Le Carré has plunged directly into one of the most anguished and impassioned conflicts on earth. His characters are invented, to be sure, but they are Israelis and Palestinians, locked in a struggle that produces daily headlines, committed to opposing causes that can make otherwise civilized people murderous. Expropriating the contemporary Middle East into a novel is literally asking for trouble. What writer could keep such demons...
George Bisharat ("Questioning Israel's Morality," March 5th) commits so many factual errors through omission and distortion that I will respond only to those which are most egregious...
...have risen in protest against the politics of terror that Israel itself has long had to endure. By their shame, they shame the killers of their own children. By their revulsion, they expose the hypocrisy of many of their critics." (Times Sept. 29). Mr. Bisharat, though his selective conscience, factual omissions, and distortions, is simply one more of those duplicitous assailants. William Marks...
Serious moral questions are raised by the Israeli Commission of Inquiry's report on the Sabra and Shatila massacres, and more particularly by public reactions to it. Paradoxically, while the factual findings of the Commission establish unequivocally the grave moral turpitude of a number of Israeli leaders, the very fact of the Commission's creation and the carrying out of its duties are hailed as evidence of Israel's observance of the rule of law and respect for democratic institutions. There are some very troubling aspects to this latter view, to say the least...
First, one may challenge the conclusions of the Commission that the acts documented in the report represent no more than "carelessness," "incompetence," "indifference," "negligence," and "passivity." On the contrary, the factual record substantiates very active complicity in the massacres by the Israeli military. The direct logistical support given by the Israeli forces to the Phalangists during the massacres was hardly "passive." Moreover, considering the arms aid and years of training given by Israel to the Phalangists and other right-wing Lebanese militias--and the claim of Israel's Defense Minister Sharon that Israeli military officers had witnessed prior massacres...