Word: shatila
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...referred to Sharon as a “hard-liner,” but most reporters mentioned only in passing that this is the same man who, in his tenure as Israeli Defense Minister in 1982, authorized the massacres of 2,000 unarmed men, women, and children in the Shatila and Sabra refugee camps of Lebanon. Nor does the American press often tell us that an Israeli commission found Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres, forcing his resignation. The terms “hard-liner” and “hawk” are rather soft in this case...
...independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace, they still see him as "the butcher," the ex-general found by an Israeli report to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at Sabra and the neighboring Shatila camp during...
...handed approach to diplomacy. In the 1950s, he led Israeli troops in an attack on a Jordanian village, killing 69 civilians, most of whom were women and children. He has also been credited with engineering the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila during Israel's disastrous attempt to root the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of Lebanon. After this episode, he was the subject of an inquiry commission by his own government, which found him indirectly responsible for the massacre, a decision that forced him to resign. Most recently, he has gained notoriety...
...better chance than Barak of beating Sharon, who enjoyed a huge lead despite being held responsible for two decades of Israeli misery in Lebanon, not to mention the Israeli military's findings over his culpability in the case of massacres of Palestinian civilians at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut in 1982. Sharon's own popularity in this year's polls was eclipsed by that of Netanyahu, despite his having been hounded out of office by an electorate all but holding its nose some 18 months ago. And of course the man they elected by a near landslide...
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...