Lebanon -
Sabra and Shatila massacre
The Sabra and Shatila massacre
The Sabra and Shatila massacre
in Lebanon in 1982 was
a massacre of Muslims
carried out by Christians.
But it is remembered because Israel can possibly be blamed.
Massacres in Lebanon where Israel cannot be blamed are forgotten.
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Lebanon War, 1975-90
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Massacres in Lebanon
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The Damour massacre, 1976
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Sabra and Shatila massacre, Lebanon, 1982
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Jewish Virtual Library
on the massacre.
- Modern killings for Christianity
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The Sabra and Shatila massacre
was a brutal massacre of Palestinians,
carried out by Lebanese Christians who were allied with Israel,
and who were themselves avenging
similar massacres of Lebanese Christians carried out by the Palestinians.
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The leader of the Sabra and Shatila massacre was the
war criminal
Elie Hobeika.
His fiancée had been raped and murdered in 1976 by the Palestinians
in the
Damour massacre of Christians
by Arafat's PLO and other Palestinians.
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Hobeika was never arrested for the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.
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Arafat was never arrested for the 1976 Damour massacre.
It was his own men that carried it out.
But no arrest.
And no calls for his arrest from the western left. Hypocrites.
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Even though no Israelis carried out the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre,
300,000 Israelis demonstrated
against it, furious that Israel had not stopped it,
even though the Palestinians were their enemies.
This is the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
When have Palestinians ever demonstrated in large numbers
following a killing of Israeli innocents?
If this has ever happened, let me know here.
- Likewise, an Israeli inquiry
sacked the Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon,
and sacked and demoted other senior figures in the army and intelligence.
When have the Palestinians ever held an inquiry
into the killing of Israeli innocents?
If this has ever happened, let me know here.
- While I can understand the fury directed at the Israelis
(such as Sharon)
who failed to prevent the massacre,
I cannot understand why all the fury seems to be directed at them.
Surely 90 percent of the fury should be directed at the people who actually
carried out the massacre, butchers like
Elie Hobeika,
and the people who carried out other similar massacres at the time, butchers like
Yasser Arafat.
Waltz with Bashir (2008),
an
anti-war film against Israel's actions in Lebanon.
It's about the
Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982,
though in fairness it shows Israel didn't do it.
Search for
clips.
It is widely claimed by leftists
and anti-Israel people
that
Ariel Sharon
was found "personally responsible" for the massacre
by the
Kahan Commission.
Of course this is rubbish.
The Christian Arab killers were personally responsible for the massacre.
Sharon was merely found personally responsible
for not foreseeing it and not acting when reports came in.
That is, negligent but not a war criminal.
To be a war criminal you have to actually commit the war crimes.
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The Commentator
notes that Sharon once said:
"I'm the only minister of defence in the world - the only one - who left his post and went back to work on a tractor, on his farm, as a result of what Christians did to Muslims. The only one."
1983:
This is the summary (top) and conclusion (bottom) about Sharon in the
report into the massacre
by the
Kahan Commission (1983).
1983:
The Kahan report found that:
"No intention existed on the part of any Israeli element to harm the non-combatant population in the camps."
1999:
Page 440
of
the book
Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law
(1999)
by
Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni.
This
inserts the words "[for the massacres]"
into the text, changing its meaning.
2002:
Page 40
(a 2002 essay)
in the collection
The Age of the Warrior
(2008)
by
Robert Fisk
repeats the same distortion.
2011:
Page 114
of the book
Freedom Next Time
(2011)
by
John Pilger
repeats the same distortion.
Wikipedia widely spread lies about Ariel Sharon
and the Sabra and Shatila massacre
after his death in Jan 2014.
It claimed he was found "personally responsible" for the massacre.
Wikipedia spread this lie about Sharon by
using
paraphrasing
instead of direct quotes.
(Always a giveaway.)
1 Jan 2014:
Wikipedia article on Ariel Sharon
as at
1 Jan 2014.
It seems perfectly accurate.
Mid-Jan 2014:
Wikipedia article on Ariel Sharon
shortly after his death on 11 Jan 2014.
This has now introduced:
- A lie.
It says
the Kahan Commission
"concluded that Sharon bore personal responsibility for the massacre".
Of course the Kahan Commission
said no such thing.
It is telling that this is a paraphrase, not a quote from the Kahan Commission.
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A fake reference.
It claims as a source "[37]" which is
this article,
which says no such thing.
Leftists
printed all sorts of outrageous slander about Ariel Sharon after his death in Jan 2014.
Basically, they accused him of an involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre
that he did not have.
- The claim
that he was found
to have "personal responsibility" for massacre:
- As shown above, the claim
that he was found
to have "personal responsibility" for the massacre is simply not true.
- Human Rights Watch, 11 Jan 2014:
"An Israeli commission of inquiry found that he bore "personal responsibility" for the massacre".
- Mehdi Hasan, 12 Jan 2014:
"a formal Israeli commission of inquiry ... found Sharon bore "personal responsibility" for the Sabra and Shatila killings".
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The Guardian editorial, 12 Jan 2014.
Introduces the massacre and then says:
"An Israeli government inquiry concluded that Mr Sharon bore personal responsibility for the incident."
- Paul Reynolds, Jan 2014:
"He was overseer at Sabra and Shatilla massacres.
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Israel found him 'personally responsible' for massacre.
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He was a war criminal in eyes of Israelis
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Even the Israelis won't argue that the guy was a mass murderer.
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The Kahan Commission found him 'personally responsible'."
- Paul Reynolds
didn't like me pointing this out.
He blocked me.
- RTE repeats the slander:
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Max Blumenthal in The Nation
claims that:
"Sharon and many of his officers were well aware of the Phalangists' intention
to murder as many women and children as they could."
No evidence is provided of this.
- Irish Israel-hater
Bock the Robber goes further, 13 Jan 2014:
"the Sabra and Chatila massacres, carried out on Sharon's orders by Saad Haddad's SLA
... These were the proxies for the Israeli Defence Forces, and they went about their business with savage gusto, under the benign, watchful eye of Ariel Sharon, slaughtering people he regarded as vermin.
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An Israeli commission of inquiry found that Sharon carried personal responsibility for the massacre".
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Damien Kiberd, 26 Jan 2014, is not as crude as the above writers.
- He is more subtle. He says about Sabra/Shatila:
"Sharon tried the old Ben-Gurion trick of shifting the blame. He said that it was the work of a vengeful Christian militia."
- But, as
Rob Harris
points out,
it was the work of a vengeful Christian militia!
- Kiberd uses the phrasing
"He said"
in order to cast doubt on Christian responsibility
and blame the Israelis instead.
Irish Times fanatic claims that Ariel Sharon "supervised" the Sabra and Shatila massacre, 16 Jan 2014.
Anti-Israel fanatic
Eamonn McCann
says, based on no evidence whatsoever, that:
"Sharon will have believed as he went about his work that he was wielding the sword of God - and will have had the same sense of righteousness when supervising the Phalangists' pitiless butchery of more than 2,000 Palestinian refugees in Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon in 1982."
The Irish Times will publish any old stuff about Sharon, it seems.
Eamonn McCann is a
supporter of Hezbollah and Hamas.
In fairness, Hamas' take on Sharon's death was pretty funny.
Ariel Sharon
helped save the Jews of Israel from genocide in 1967.
From IDF.
Ariel Sharon
helped save the Jews of Israel from genocide in 1973.
From IDF.
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