Word: shatila
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After the Phalangists had left the camps, Red Cross personnel, many journalists and other persons entered, and it then became apparent that in the camps, and particularly in Shatila, civilians, including women and children, had been massacred. It was clear from the spectacle that presented itself that a considerable number of the killed had not been cut down in combat but had been murdered, and that no few acts of barbarism had also been perpetrated...
...this kind of careful, deliberate prose, Israel's official commission of inquiry described the dreadful events of the three days last September when Israelis allowed Lebanese Phalangist soldiers to enter the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, where the Christian militiamen proceeded to murder between 700 and 800 Arabs. After four months of testimony and deliberation, the Israeli commission last week delivered its report on the Beirut massacre, and it proved to be a stinging indictment of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and several military officials, concluding that they shared an "indirect" responsibility for what happened in the Beirut...
...Israel, the drama of Shatila and Sabra is only now beginning to play itself out Just as the Watergate break-in was but the initial event in a long search for the American conscience, the September slaughter in Beirut was but the catalyst for the turmoil the Jewish state is presently going through. For the past few months. Israelis had held their collective breath in anticipation of the official inquiry commission's report. The findings are in, the verdict a qualified guilty...
...given by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and the report infers that Sharon did not, as he claims, attempt to persuade the standard troops to enter the camps. Instead, he turned directly to the Phalangists, who could be counted on to do the dirty work of removing any terrorists from Shatila and Sabra. Sharon, the report concludes, did not order the killings, but he should have anticipated them...
...others must leave the government altogether or simply abandon the posts they now hold. The former course seems wisest. Should they remain in positions of power, these men will represent the failure of the system to cleanse itself, indeed to carry out the imperatives of democracy. Shatila and Sabra are forever a part of Israel's past. But tomorrow's history has yet to be made; it is never too late to find the right path. Antony J. Blinken