Word: phalangists
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...cover story dealt with the published findings 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 Christian Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," said the commission report. Sharon resigned his 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...
...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...