Word: shatila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Alexander Cockburn published in The Village Voice, you ought to be a rabid anti-Semite. Only a few Martin Peretz, William Safire and Norman Podhoretz among them had the intelligence to announce that the Americans were being snarled in lies. Even today, when the miasma of Sabra and Shatila lingers heavily, few thoughtful people would claim to know what happened--or, for that matter, what is happening in Lebanon...
...address to the Knesset only four days after the massacre, Sharon had acknowledged that the Israeli Defense Forces (I.D.F.) had given limited field support to the Lebanese Forces' military operation that led to the massacre of at least 400 Palestinian civilians within the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps...
...among the Arabs," revenge was not ordinarily directed toward "children, women and old people, nor toward entire populations, or hundreds of people." Later he told the panel that no Israeli soldier or commander "imagined in his worst dream the terrible scenes that were revealed to us in Sabra and Shatila . . . We were surprised, astounded and shocked by the massacre that took place...
Politically, the fallout from Israel's ouster would have endangered both the Arab and the Palestinian cause. In the aftermath of all-out war in Lebanon and the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the Arabs are riding a wave of sympathy the world over. But the new-found perception of Israel as a Goliath surrounded by poor little David's would likely have shifted had the Jewish state been bullied...
Maybe the massacres at Sabra and Shatila will show the world why Israel has to be strong and alert. If Arabs could do such things to Arabs, imagine what they would do to Israelis. When the P.L.O. killed women and children in Israel, we saw dancing in Arab streets, not antigovernment demonstrations...