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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (3871)	2/7/2001 10:40:33 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 6089

Subject 50771

To: Poet who wrote (3871)	2/7/2001 7:49:30 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 6089

Poet, this reporter says it better than I ever could... independent.co.uk >> Ariel Sharon ... for everyone who stood in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut on 18 September 1982, his name is synonymous with butchery; with bloated corpses and disembowelled women and dead babies, with rape and pillage and murder. ... After two months and almost 17,000 deaths, most of them civilians – the majority killed by Israeli gunfire and air attack – the PLO withdrew from Beirut [in a neutral country, remember] under international protection, leaving their unarmed families behind. At which point Sharon announced that 2,000 "terrorists" remained in the Sabra and Chatila camps. ... Sharon – again contrary to assurances he had given the Americans – ordered the Israeli army into west Beirut to "restore order". The Israelis then asked the Christian Phalange – armed and uniformed by Israel and allied to Israel since 1976 – to enter the Israeli-surrounded camps to "liquidate" the "terrorists". ... Just over four months later ... Sharon, who was minister of defence, bore "personal responsibility", the Kahan commission stated, and recommended his removal from office. Sharon resigned. << And what's worse is, he gives the impression of having solidified those views. Repentance? remorse? rethink? Hardly. BTW, apparently the founder of the Phalangist militia - Sharon's allies and executors - was 'inspired by the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936.' I didn't know this when I used my analogy yesterday... Anyhow, I figure the best we can hope for is that Sharon demonstrates the hopelessness of brutal oppression against an informed and hostile occupied nation, and the next election in Israel will see realism and honest compromise. Possibly, he'll breed a new Northern Ireland - after all, Protestants lived there way before the US even existed - and the main 'terrorists' will eventually negotiate again. My fear - another Afghanistan; remember, Bin Laden was once a US ally. 'nuff said, I suppose...