Word: phalangists
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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...
...Bikfaya. These sources included an Israeli intelligence officer with access to notes taken at the meeting who told Halevy that Bashir's father had declared to Sharon that his son's death should be avenged. Halevy also said that another source, an Israeli general, informed him that Sharon told Phalangist leaders that same day that Bashir's murder was a "Palestinian-Syrian conspiracy" and that the act "should not be left without retaliation, reprisal or reaction of some kind." Halevy explained that he deduced from talks with Israeli officials, and from the report, that this information was in Appendix...
...cover story, "The Verdict Is Guilty," TIME reported that Israel's official commission of inquiry found that Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family...