Word: shatila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They yield their posts reluctantly, regretfully, but with deference to the counts of their misjudgment. Not yet has the memory of the Sabra and Shatila horror released itself from Israel's conserence. And never will this moral precedent ring hollow in the car The Kahan Commission and its visible consequences had exposed the world to a country's struggle to embrace democratic ideals...
...assessed each act in Lebanon, so Israel evaluated her deeds at home. The Kahan Commission withheld judgment on the invasion but dared to explore its means. Where it delegated the blame for the crime of poor judgment concerning Sabra and Shatila, the truly disgraceful offenses of recent years ago--not just unpunished but ignored. In contrast to Israel's forthright courage to critically assess her record, other nations have shirked their responsibility, content to belittle this single moral precedent...
Where is the Phalangist report for the September massacre of 300 in Sabra and Shatila...
...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...