Word: shatila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, Israel officially responded to the nonbinding flat of the inquiry into Sabra and Shatila massacre. As recommended by the Kahan Commission. Generals Saguy and Yaron have resigned, to be joined by Chief of Staff Rafael Eytan who retires in April Compelled not by an admission of complicity but, rather, by the sears of their own negligence, these men have honored the findings, choosing to resign rather than to appear defiant...
...conspiracy or plot existed beween Israelis and Phalangists "with the aim of perpetrating atrocities in the camps." Where is Mr. Bisharat's condemnation of the Lebanese government's paralysis in conducting its own investigation in light of such damning evidence? Further, there was a reason to enter Sabra and Shatila. Contrary to Arafat's written guarantee, the PLO left about 2000 terrorists and large stocks of weapons in these West Beirut camps, facts confirmed by Oriana Fallacci in her September Kennedy School address...
Serious moral questions are raised by the Israeli Commission of Inquiry's report on the Sabra and Shatila massacres, and more particularly by public reactions to it. Paradoxically, while the factual findings of the Commission establish unequivocally the grave moral turpitude of a number of Israeli leaders, the very fact of the Commission's creation and the carrying out of its duties are hailed as evidence of Israel's observance of the rule of law and respect for democratic institutions. There are some very troubling aspects to this latter view, to say the least...
Second, it is more than disturbing to witness the rapidity with which Israel's defenders would forget the numerous and severe offenses committed by Israel against international law both before and after the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The most important of these offenses was the invasion of Lebanon itself, which violated articles of the U.N. charter prohibiting the use of force international relations, as well as U.N. General Assembly resolutions defining aggression and declaring the inadmissibility of intervention in another state. The massive scale of death and destruction caused by the Israeli forces in Lebanon far outweighed any actual...
...make such a claim takes nerve, to say the least. To Sharon and the others the report plainly says: You are indirectly responsible for Sabra and Shatila because you "should have felt apprehension," you should have "take[n] the danger into account"; you "were obligated to foresee as probable" the carnage that ensued...