Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already angry that the Israelis had moved into West Beirut two weeks ago, thereby breaking a promise they had made to the U.S., and he was horrified that, having occupied the Muslim sector of the Lebanese capital, the Israelis had not only failed to protect the lives of the Palestinian civilians within their jurisdiction but were deeply implicated in the events that led to the mass murders. Two days after the scope of what had happened was fully understood, Reagan took to national television to restate his determination to get the Israelis out of Lebanon, and announced he was sending...
...government did not imagine "in our blackest dreams that hundreds of innocents would be massacred in Beirut." But he admitted that the Israeli army had helped the Christian forces to plan the operation and had allowed them to enter the refugee camps in order to clean out any remaining Palestinian guerrilla resistance there. The Christian forces were given permission to enter, said Sharon, after pledging "not to harm civilians, especially old people, women and children," a pledge no Middle East authority would have accepted...
...massacre and to what degree the Begin government was culpable. In the welter of contradictory reports, certain facts were incontrovertible. Top Israeli officers planned many months ago to enlist the Lebanese Forces, made up of the combined Christian militias then headed by Bashir Gemayel, to enter the Palestinian refugee camps once an Israeli encirclement of West Beirut had been completed. This plan was prepared at a time when the camps were still used as bases by the Palestine Liberation Organization. On several occasions, Gemayel told Israeli officials he would like to raze the camps and flatten them into tennis courts...
...town of Damur, twelve miles south of Beirut, symbolizes the hatred between Christians and Palestinians that flared during the civil war. The town, once a Chamounist stronghold, had been taken over by Palestinians who, in 1976, had survived a 52-day siege and subsequent massacre by Christian militias at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp in Beirut. The Christians of Damur had been rudely displaced to make way for the Palestinian refugees, and resented it deeply. During the Israeli invasion, the Palestinians were driven from Damur, and the town was returned to Christian control. The Damur Battalion, whose ranks include members...
...bloodbath in the Palestinian camps: "Butchery the mind cannot comprehend...