Word: militiamen
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...cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of some 700 Arabs, mainly Palestinians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. The murders, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan, found that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance." The commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened; Sharon resigned his defense post...
...reporter told of hearing young Phalangists dancing in the streets and shouting "Revenge! Revenge!" the day after their leader, Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, had been assassinated. He told of a conversation with an Israeli soldier who warned him "something ugly is happening in the city" just as Phalangist militiamen were killing 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. He told of an agitated Israeli general knocking on his door in Tel Aviv late one night to express his concern that Israeli officers had known of the atrocities but remained silent...
...TIME magazine libeled him in a February 1983 cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of some 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut. The killings, which followed the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were done by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The article extensively quoted the published report, which, among other things, found that then Defense Minister Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility for what had happened in the camps...
...hour opening statement, Milton Gould, Sharon's attorney, reviewed Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and defended Sharon's decision to allow the Phalangist militiamen to enter the camps on the ground that Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists were still hiding there. Gould said he would prove that TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy, who reported on Sharon's meeting with the Gemayels, had "contrived" the details and that the TIME staff had failed to verify the reporting. According to his deposition, Halevy had three primary but confidential sources for his report...
...support his claim that the Defense Minister had been severely criticized in the press before TIME'S article was published. Barr also quoted warnings about the Phalangists' violent reputation, including Israeli Lieut. General Rafael Eitan's statement to the Israeli Cabinet before the massacre that the militiamen would enter the camps and "have just one thing left to do, and that is revenge." As for the proper interpretation of the disputed paragraph, Barr said he would leave it up to the jury to determine that "TIME didn't try to imply something it didn...