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MIDDLE EAST Those Who Live by the Sword . . . The former Lebanese warlord whose Israel-allied Christian militia slaughtered hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 was assassinated in a Beirut car-bomb explosion. Elie Hobeika had no shortage of enemies, but initial suspicion has fallen on Israel. Hobeika met earlier last week with Belgian officials considering war crimes charges against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The potential charges, permitted under Belgian law, stem from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when Sharon was Defense Minister and strongly allied to Hobeika's Lebanese Forces. Sharon was forced...
...peaceniks don't buy it. To them, Sharon embodies the old expansionist Israel of settlements and the Lebanon war. For Palestinians, he's a symbol of the slaughter that befell them at the hands of Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except...
They are also unaware of what Ariel Sharon represents to the Palestinian people. In 1982, during Ariel Sharon's tenure as Israeli Defense Minister, two massacres took place in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Southern Lebanon. Two thousand unarmed Palestinian men, women and children were slaughtered. The Israeli Kahan commission described how Sharon ordered the Israeli commanders in Lebanon to allow Phalangist militiamen into the camps to clean out the terrorists he claimed were lurking there. Sharon was held indirectly responsible for the massacres and removed from office. Palestinians feel that the hands of this...
...Sabra's baklava kept me going at lunch. The two brothers there may have drooled over my exotic friends, but we had an understanding about the flaky, honey-soaked pastry. We'd bounce back the words. "One piece of baklava," I'd say, hiding my "w" behind a "v." I knew this was how it was pronounced, but I didn't want to sound presumptuous. "One baklawa, coming right up," the younger brother would repeat. I followed again, with a new intonation, "BAKlawa...
...Sharon, who had served as Minister of Infrastructure, a post he will keep, the promotion completed a long rehabilitation following his resignation as Defense Minister after the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian civilians in Lebanon by the Israel-allied Phalangist militia. Though still reviled in much of the Arab world for his role in that outrage and others, Sharon over the past year has gained a reputation for honesty and reliability among Israel's peace partners...