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...government eventually allowed TIME to depose three low-ranking officials, but it still forbade the magazine's lawyers to talk with the most important witnesses. TIME's attorneys especially wanted to interview Major General Yehoshua Saguy, the former director of military intelligence who attended meetings with the Phalangists, and General Rafael Eitan, Sharon's chief of staff. According to the Kahan commission, Eitan had warned Sharon of the possibility of revenge at three meetings the day the massacre began. On one occasion Eitan said, "They're seething with a feeling of revenge," and he spoke of "rivers of blood." TIME...
...commission also took a fairly strong position against Major General Yehoshua Saguy, 49, the director of Israeli military intelligence. Saguy had not trusted the Phalangists and did not want to cooperate with them. But he had been overruled by Sharon, who had preferred to take the advice of the Mossad, the Israeli civil intelligence agency, which had previous dealings of long standing with the Phalangists. Saguy testified that he was not informed beforehand that the Phalangists would be allowed to enter the camps. When he learned what had happened, he did nothing. As he told the commission, "So what could...
...current troubles started in the Tel Aviv slum of Kfar Shalem, when Yisrael Yehoshua, a sanitation worker who migrated from Yemen 35 years ago, added a room to the two-room house that he and 18 relatives share. City authorities said that the addition was illegal, and sent a bulldozer, accompanied by an elite police squad, to tear it down. The family pleaded with the police to wait, pointing out that Yehoshua was in the process of obtaining a temporary court injunction barring the demolition, but the authorities refused to hold off". As the bulldozer rolled forward, Yehoshua...
...defending the decision, Censorship Board Chairman Yehoshua Justman charged that the Levin play portrayed the Israeli people as "corrupt, degenerate, ruthlessly killing Arab children and degrading the Arabs...
...Yehoshua Feingold...