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...each side. It was now up to the jury to decide if, as the former Israeli Defense Minister contends, TIME magazine libeled him in a paragraph in its 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...
...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...
Sharon contends that TIME libeled him in its Feb. 21, 1983, 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...
...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...
...began Sharon's $50 million lawsuit against Time Inc. last week. Sharon has charged 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...