Word: phalangists
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...that 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...
Security procedures were so lax that the terrorist van was already far past local Phalangist militiamen before they realized something was wrong and started to shoot. Only the chance presence of the British ambassador and his bodyguards, who shot the driver before he could enter the building's garage, saved the embassy from total destruction...
...biggest impasses is how to rebuild the Lebanese Army. Muslim Cabinet members, especially Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt, want a restructuring that would weaken the traditional Maronite Christian hold on senior military positions. Christian leaders, notably Phalangist Patriarch Pierre Gemayel and former President Camille Chamoun, are fiercely resisting that course...
...already heard that Sharon had visited Israel's Phalangist allies in Beirut. War seemed very near. Our duty to attempt to prevent it was obvious; our ability to do so, questionable. After informing the President of this latest development, I sent our Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, to Begin with instructions to tell him that an Israeli operation along the lines described to us would have far-reaching consequences for our relationship. The Israelis should not misjudge American public opinion; it would not tolerate such an operation in current circumstances. Begin interrupted. "Don't use those words...