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...Sharon have said that they were prepared to take personal responsibility for Israel's role in the Beirut massacre, implying that they will step down if the inquiry reveals any Israeli complicity. But neither appeared ready to give up easily. At an acrimonious, closed-door session of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, Begin bristled at an opposition demand that he resign. Shouted the embattled Prune Minister: "Who should resign? I, with 50% of public opinion thinking I am the best man for the job, or [Opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon] Peres, who has the trust...
Sharon has fanned suspicion that he is trying to evade responsibility for the massacre. During the Knesset debate two weeks ago on whether to conduct an official inquiry, the Defense Minister hinted that when the opposition Labor Party was in power in 1976 Israeli officers took part in a massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp near Beirut. Sharon clearly was sniping at Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who was then Defense Minister, and not at the army, but I.D.F. officers familiar with the matter issued angry denials...
...devise my own compromise proposals and to present my views to both of them. I pointed out to Begin that if the only cause for his rejection of the peace effort was the Sinai settlers, I did not believe the people of his nation or the parliament, the Knesset, would agree. It was my belief that if he would get the settlers to leave Egyptian territory, he could sell this action to his people...
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Sharon told the Knesset that it was not until Friday morning that senior Israeli officers first became suspicious about what was happening in the camps. The Defense Minister said that Major General Drori ordered an immediate stop to the action. Sharon thus claimed that he had not learned of possible trouble until the morning after the Thursday-night report cited by the Jerusalem Post's Goodman. But, as Sharon said, the militias did not leave the camps until Saturday morning; during the interim, the killings were continuing. On Friday afternoon, a group...
Speaking in the Knesset, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres eloquently described the emotional crisis that the massacre had caused. Excerpts...