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...TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and thus bore "indirect responsibility" for what happened; Sharon resigned his Defense post two days after the findings were released...
...going to get beaten on etymology." Moments later TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave said he felt that the jurors had "misread" the disputed paragraph and insisted once again that the passage in no way accused Sharon of responsibility for the massacre. The passage simply echoed the findings of the Kahan report, Cave said. He defended the magazine's use of confidential sources in seeking information about the events leading to the massacre. "Most magazines and most newspapers constantly rely on confidential sources," he noted...
Under Sofaer's agreement with Israel allowing lawyers for both sides to examine secret information gathered by the Kahan commission, TIME had sought access to testimony collected by the commission's investigators that, it contended, could support its case. Sofaer last week received permission from the Israeli government to release a letter to the court from Haim Zadok, the attorney who acted on TIME's behalf. According to Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice, he was not allowed to see information gathered by the investigators, who had the power to summon witnesses and require them to testify. Zadok also...
...closed session of court last Monday (the transcript was released on Tuesday when Zadok's letter was made public), Barr underscored the significance of Zadok's reservations. He asked the jury to heed the wording in Zadok's letter, and in letters from Kahan and the Israeli Attorney General's office, which suggested that other important documents and information may well exist that TIME was not allowed to see. That material, said Barr, could include minutes of a meeting that Sharon held with Bashir two days before the assassination; the Defense Minister might have learned there of the Phalangists' intentions...
...they believed that TIME's journalists had "systematically disregarded" substantial evidence that caused them to be aware that the paragraph was probably untrue. Sofaer reminded the jury to consider TIME's claim that its employees had checked the passage carefully and found no contradiction between its conclusion and the Kahan commission report. The jurors were also to take into account testimony by Halevy's TIME colleagues that they regarded him as a reliable reporter...