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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (110034)8/5/2003 3:00:57 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Didn't Sharon play a role in the killings? Serious question

A supporting role. The killings were committed by the Phalangists commanded by Hobeicka. The Israelis let the Phalangists into the camps where they were supposed to go after terrorists, but instead committed a massacre. The Israeli court found Sharon "indirectly responsible". When Time Magazine said that Sharon had had foreknowledge of Hobeicka's intentions, Sharon sued for libel, and won.

Naturally, the world press treated Hobeicka as if he had been Sharon's horse, for all anyone considered his responsibility in the matter. Phalangist/PLO massacres, of which this one was neither the first nor the last, which had previously been of no interest, suddenly became of all-consuming interest, now that there was an Israeli general on the scene to take the blame.
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