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Last week, Israel officially responded to the nonbinding flat of the inquiry into Sabra and Shatila massacre. As recommended by the Kahan Commission. Generals Saguy and Yaron have resigned, to be joined by Chief of Staff Rafael Eytan who retires in April Compelled not by an admission of complicity but, rather, by the sears of their own negligence, these men have honored the findings, choosing to resign rather than to appear defiant...
They yield their posts reluctantly, regretfully, but with deference to the counts of their misjudgment. Not yet has the memory of the Sabra and Shatila horror released itself from Israel's conserence. And never will this moral precedent ring hollow in the car The Kahan Commission and its visible consequences had exposed the world to a country's struggle to embrace democratic ideals...
...assessed each act in Lebanon, so Israel evaluated her deeds at home. The Kahan Commission withheld judgment on the invasion but dared to explore its means. Where it delegated the blame for the crime of poor judgment concerning Sabra and Shatila, the truly disgraceful offenses of recent years ago--not just unpunished but ignored. In contrast to Israel's forthright courage to critically assess her record, other nations have shirked their responsibility, content to belittle this single moral precedent...
What is just is not always easy. Nor is it always recognized Israel's commitment to the Kahan Commission at a precarious moment in her short history indicates a country dedicated to the notion of a free, democratic, and moral posture. The youngest democratic state, and among the most beleaguered. Israel openly displays her own limited guilt before a world hostile toward her and quick to find fault...
...outweighed such qualms. Indeed, there is a joke in Israel about an engineer who built a highway. When asked how he had made it so straight, he replied, "Simple. I took Yona Efrat to the site and told him to lie down." The engineer could as easily have chosen Kahan or Barak...