Columnist HDS Greenway of the Boston Globe accuses Israel and Ariel Sharon of direct responsibility for the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps:
Sharon’s political nadir was the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla by allied Christian Lebanese militias, whom the Israelis had brought up to do the killing.
The Israelis remained just outside but turned the night into day with illumination rounds so their surrogates could see for the task at hand. An Israeli fact-finding commission found Sharon indirectly responsible for the atrocities.
Greenway implies that IDF planned the Sabra and Shatilla massacre all along by allowing Christian Phalangists to run amok in the camps. But as Mitch Bard explains, the Phalangist forces entered Sabra and Shatilla to root out terror cells based in those camps. The Kahan Commission of Inquiry held Sharon indirectly responsible for not anticipating the possibility that the Phalangists would deliberately kill Palestinian civilians during the operation.
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