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...women and children in the Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut. In fact, the anguished speaker was an Israeli woman in Jerusalem who the night before had watched the television pictures of the aftermath of the killings by the Israeli-backed Lebanese Christian militiamen. In Lebanon, even as Amin Gemayel was inaugurated as the new President in the place of his slain brother Bashir, the counting of the corpses in the camps continued. In Israel, the slayings and the Israeli government's complicity in those dreadful events produced a reaction of shock and soul searching unparalleled in the nation...
...events that had led to the massacre and to what degree the Begin government was culpable. In the welter of contradictory reports, certain facts were incontrovertible. Top Israeli officers planned many months ago to enlist the Lebanese Forces, made up of the combined Christian militias then headed by Bashir Gemayel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps once an Israeli encirclement of West Beirut had been completed. This plan was prepared at a time when the camps were still used as bases by the Palestine Liberation Organization. On several occasions, Gemayel told Israeli officials he would like to raze the camps...
...always carries a pistol, a knife and a hand grenade on his belt, Hobeika was the most feared Phalangist in Lebanon. He had taken part in the Tel Zaatar massacre and in attacks on the rivals of Bashir Gemayel. The Israelis knew Hobeika and his followers as ruthless, brutal security men, and knew they did not constitute a disciplined military force...
...Israelis also knew that Hobeika wanted to embarrass Amin Gemayel, whom he hated, and that he was involved in a bitter power struggle within the Lebanese Forces. As the man charged with protecting Bashir Gemayel, Hobeika was blamed for the leader's death and thus was anxious to take out his frustrations on someone. The Palestinians, who had fought Gemayel in the past, would turn out to be the victims...
President Gemayel vows to link Christian and Muslim...