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...Minister Ariel Sharon, 54, who had directed his country's forces as they cooperated in the attack on the refugee camps. A former combat general, the tough and aggressive Sharon had long wanted to sweep every vestige of the P.L.O. out of Lebanon. He was the driving force in Menachem Begin's Cabinet behind the invasion of Lebanon, often acting on his own without the approval of his colleagues. Last week, angrily defending his record, the massive figure of Sharon was at the very center of the controversy that could lead to the fall of the government he served...
...held all week, starting with a demonstration at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem and ending with a mass rally attended by 350,000 people in Tel Aviv. Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman resigned because of Begin's failure to appoint a full-scale commission of inquiry. So did Menachem Milson, the civil administrator of the West Bank who had been appointed by Sharon. And so did Yoav Gelber, a historian who had been serving on a commission to investigate the 1933 murder of a Zionist leader in Palestine. Said Gelber: "I feel it is impossible to investigate a murder...
...Menachem Begin said: We are a Jewish state, with our experiences. We will not agree under any circumstances to any attempt by the Syrians to turn the Christians during the 1980s into the Jews of Europe from the 1940s. I want to believe the Prime Minister, that that was appropriate not only for Jews, not only for Christians, but also for Muslims. Children are children, whether they are Jews, Arabs or Lebanese. The blood of all is holy in our eyes...
Some in the crowd wanted to express outrage at Prime Minister Menachem Begin's initial refusal to create an impartial board of inquiry to investigate the carnage. Others shared this concern but also wanted to register an objection to the more long-term problem of expansionism and the annexation of the occupied territories...
...also signed by four other area professors, denounces the killings as a "barbarous atrocity" and demands the resignations of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon if they had any previous knowledge of the massacres...