Word: sabras
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Fadi Dawish, 28, is behind the counter of his grocery store, counting change in almost total darkness. He gets only a few hours of electricity a day, just like the other crumbling shops and dwellings along Salameh Street in Beirut's Sabra refugee camp, where smelly piles of garbage sit uncollected and the water supply swims with disease. Even when the lights are on, Dawish has to strain as he adds up the day's receipts because of the deep shrapnel gash over his left eye from Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Lebanon 19 years ago. Recently...
...independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace, they still see him as "the butcher," the ex-general found by an Israeli report to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at Sabra and the neighboring Shatila camp during...
...hardly be called a brighter side, but for now, at least, the Palestinians in Lebanon have stopped dreaming of going home. "With Sharon, we can never hope for anything good," says Mohammed Safad, 59, working a cigarette cart at the entrance to Sabra. "He will never let us return. He only says no, no, no." That seems to be the kind of realism Israel's new Prime Minister is aiming to instill in Israel's standoff with the Palestinians. But as the uncertainties in Lebanon suggest, it may not be enough to bring peace to the Middle East...
...heavy-handed approach to diplomacy. In the 1950s, he led Israeli troops in an attack on a Jordanian village, killing 69 civilians, most of whom were women and children. He has also been credited with engineering the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila during Israel's disastrous attempt to root the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of Lebanon. After this episode, he was the subject of an inquiry commission by his own government, which found him indirectly responsible for the massacre, a decision that forced him to resign. Most recently, he has gained...
...loser Peres had a better chance than Barak of beating Sharon, who enjoyed a huge lead despite being held responsible for two decades of Israeli misery in Lebanon, not to mention the Israeli military's findings over his culpability in the case of massacres of Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut in 1982. Sharon's own popularity in this year's polls was eclipsed by that of Netanyahu, despite his having been hounded out of office by an electorate all but holding its nose some 18 months ago. And of course the man they elected...