Word: zaatar
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...evade responsibility for the massacre. During the Knesset debate two weeks ago on whether to conduct an official inquiry, the Defense Minister hinted that when the opposition Labor Party was in power in 1976 Israeli officers took part in a massacre of Palestinians by Lebanese Christians at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp near Beirut. Sharon clearly was sniping at Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, who was then Defense Minister, and not at the army, but I.D.F. officers familiar with the matter issued angry denials...
...Damur, twelve miles south of Beirut, symbolizes the hatred between Christians and Palestinians that flared during the civil war. The town, once a Chamounist stronghold, had been taken over by Palestinians who, in 1976, had survived a 52-day siege and subsequent massacre by Christian militias at the Tel Zaatar refugee camp in Beirut. The Christians of Damur had been rudely displaced to make way for the Palestinian refugees, and resented it deeply. During the Israeli invasion, the Palestinians were driven from Damur, and the town was returned to Christian control. The Damur Battalion, whose ranks include members...
...always carries a pistol, a knife and a hand grenade on his belt, Hobeika was the most feared Phalangist in Lebanon. He had taken part in the Tel Zaatar massacre and in attacks on the rivals of Bashir Gemayel. The Israelis knew Hobeika and his followers as ruthless, brutal security men, and knew they did not constitute a disciplined military force...
...family room"-all beds and dressers. Jamila, though in pigtails and sneakers, looks older than the other two. Her parents were killed in an Israeli shelling of Tyre. Boutros' father was killed when the Phalangists raided his poultry farm. Mona's father was killed after Tel Zaatar was destroyed...
...their indoctrination may be indirect. The normal conversation of parents will influence children in any circumstance, and it would be a lot to ask of Palestinian parents that they display a political evenhandedness they do not feel. It may even be that for children like those in the Tel Zaatar home, this single-mindedness is not all that harmful. If there can be a benign side to indoctrination, it is that it offers a purpose; and when one's family is destroyed, any purpose, however limited, may be spiritually useful...