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...steadfast military presence: the encamped U.S. troops may not have moved Lebanon any closer to peace, but the Administration remembers vividly that a year ago, barely a week after the first Marine contingent in Beirut was pulled out, between 700 and 800 Arabs in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila were massacred...
...WHICH brings up an important lesson in political accountability. Last year, many of those same European governments insisted that Israel be held responsible for the slaughter perpetrated by Christian Phalangist forces in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Israeli forces, though not directly implicated, shouldered much of the blame in the world's press for the massacre, as it had indeed occurred under Israeli auspices. In accordance with a conscientious democratic ethic, Prime Minister Menschem Begin's government conducted a thorough investigation of the conduct of several cabinet ministers. It is a revealing if not pathetic comment...
...question of responsibility for the massacre at Shatila and Sabra is actually an easily resolved one. The Israeli Commission on the massacre divided responsibility into "direct" and "indirect" realms, and then took the unprecedented step of holding Israel's leaders "indirectly" responsible, and thus subject to punishment (conversely when at Nuremberg, the concept of indirect responsibility was first promulgated, it was done so by revenge seeking victors of a terrible war--the Israelis submitted themselves to this type of scrutiny voluntarily). The fact that the Phalangist butchers who slaughtered their own Arab brethren have not even been named, let alone...
...horror of her citizens at the implication of culpability in Sabra and Shatila compelled Israel to expose her role publicly, officially, and promptly Committed to drawing that critical self evaluation. Israel withstood the ills of her own timeliness. She might have evaded the public accusations of insufficient inquiry by waiting. (Only this past month. America painlessly admitted her negligence in the prolonged internment of Japanese in World...
...appalling that the Jews, who for hundreds of years have been the victims of the worst atrocities, turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the events in the Sabra and Shatila camps. However, we are forgetting that the Christian Phalangists carried out the massacre...