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That may prove to be a hard promise to keep. Until now, the Maronite Christians have remained more or less united behind President Gemayel. Last week, however, Gemayel's Phalange Party was suddenly challenged by a senior officer in the Lebanese Forces, which are dominated by the Phalangist militia. Both the party and the militia were founded by the late Sheik Pierre Gemayel, and the Lebanese Forces were formerly led by the late Bashir Gemayel, the son of Pierre and brother of Amin. The challenger was one of the Lebanese Forces commanders, Samir Geagea, 32, who seemed bent not only...
Geagea is reported to have won the backing of Solange Gemayel, Bashir's widow. One of his chief allies is another militia commander, Elias Hobeika, who led the Phalangist forces into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982, where they murdered an estimated 700 to 800 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. The following year, Geagea helped direct the Christian assault on Druze villages in the mountains. The Druze fought off the Christian forces, and on one occasion Geagea had to be rescued by an Israeli helicopter...
TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's former Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan. The massacre of the Palestinians, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. In finding that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance" when he ordered the militiamen into the camps, the Kahan commission concluded that he bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," the commission stated...
...about a single paragraph in TIME's Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. First, could the disputed passage, which reported on discussions Sharon had with Lebanese Christian Phalangist leaders prior to the massacre, be interpreted as having a meaning that defamed Sharon? If so, was the substance of the paragraph false? And if the answers to both these questions were yes, did TIME publish the paragraph "with a high degree of awareness" of its probable falsity? For Sharon...
...TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and thus bore "indirect responsibility" for what happened; Sharon resigned his Defense post two days after the findings were released...