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...that infamous incident, at least 800 Palestinians were killed in September by Lebanese Christian militiamen who had been allowed by Israeli military authorities to enter two refugee camps in Beirut. Last week the commission sent formal letters of warning to Prime Minister Begin, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and six ranking military and intelligence officials. The commission advised each man that he was "liable to be harmed" by the results of the inquiry and that he had 15 days in which to request permission to reappear before the commission to offer further testimony. Each recipient was also...
...with his colleagues, the commission members wondered. Replied Shamir: "I didn't ask, and I don't recall that it bothered me, since it was clear that everything going on was known to the persons sitting with me in the room." One commission member, Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan, pressed Shamir again and again on this point, but Shamir insisted that he had not felt it necessary to raise the matter with Sharon and the others. Shamir also claimed that he did not learn of the massacre until the following...
...aftermath of the disaster, many Israelis felt a renewed urge to get their country's forces out of Lebanon. One Cabinet member, Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, proposed that Israel undertake a unilateral withdrawal from certain parts of Lebanon in order to test Syrian and Lebanese intentions. Such a move would be welcomed by the Lebanese, who increasingly resent the continued Israeli occupation. Many of them blame the Israeli presence for the sporadic factional fighting between Christians and Muslims in the hilly Chouf and Aley regions a few miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese...
...learned about the atrocities until late Saturday, when he heard a BBC newscast. Another witness last week was Communications Minister Mordechai Zipori, who testified that he was told on Friday morning, Sept. 17, that killing was going on in the camps, and that he so informed Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
Begin has fared better. According to the same poll, the Prime Minister's support declined from 54% in August to 42.9% in September, but then increased to 44.8% in October. His closest rival is President Yitzhak Navon, with 18.4%, followed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, with 11.1%. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres is a distant fourth, with only 3.3%. Reason: the Sephardic Jews who support Begin approve of his hard line toward the Arabs, massacre or no massacre, and the Sephardim now make up more than half of the Israeli population. -By William E. Smith. Reported by David Halevy/Jerusalem...