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Luiz Felipe da Silva Haddad...
...encountered a group of Israeli soldiers. They were ordered to go back, and one of them lowered his gun on the group. The panic-stricken refugees sent a man forward to talk to the Israelis, while the others waited in the street. The emissary shouted that Sa'ad Haddad's men were killing people in the camps and that the crowd wanted to seek shelter. "I cannot do anything," came the soldier's response. "If you stay here for more than ten minutes, I will shoot you." A tank was rolled around and began moving toward...
Israeli army complicity in the massacre, however, goes beyond the role of naive bystander shocked at the crime. Whether the gunmen were Phalangists or members of Haddad's personal army, the Israeli army commanders' familiarity with the pent-up frustrations of both groups cannot be ignored. After years of training and supplying each group with weapons, nothing but stupidity could have prevented the Israeli army leaders from properly predicting the likelihood of bloody revenge if the opportunity was given them, especially after the recent Gemayel assassination. Surely Begin knows that allies do not always act as their benefactors would like...
What had happened? Practically everybody agreed that the gunmen were right-wing Lebanese Christian militiamen, and were either from the Lebanese Forces led by the vengeance-bent Gemayel clan or from the militia run by Major Sa'ad Haddad, which is based in southern Lebanon and is closely alh'ed with the Israelis. The Lebanese Forces would be the more logical culprits, since they live in the region and were in mourning for their fallen leader. On the other hand, there were reports that a group of Haddad's men were seen in the vicinity of the camps...