To: Zeev Hed who wrote (185403 ) 3/23/2004 7:26:09 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Get your facts right, Sharon was never before a military tribunal, a group of supreme court justices formed a committee to investigate the massacre and did not find Sharon Guilty of any crime, they found that he should have known that a massacre of Arabs by Arabs could have occurred. Because of that lapse in judgment (not the commission of a crime) he was fired from his post in the government at the time. you know Big difference between committing crimes and not anticipating such crimes could be committed by others. That is like saying that the Bush administration "should have known" of an impending 9/11 disaster, because there were a lot of "warnings". That is non sense, Sharon had a lot of "warnings", and before the engagement of the Christian Lebanese militzia with the PLO, he warned the Christian leader that Israel would not allow a massacre of innocent civilians (and indeed, it was IDF that stopped the massacre from continuing, under the order of the then Defense Minister Sharon. The information that a massacre was going on was, unfortunately, delayed from reaching Sharon by a low level agent at military intelligence, that held the information till the next morning, when Sharon acted at once). The Judges found that despite this stern warning, he still should have known that they will disobey him. After all, they claimed, these people were not under your command and you should assume that your request will not be viewed as an order, since you had no authority to order anything. Sharon politically lost a lot by ordering this action, but Israeli civilians know that one of the main instigators of massacres amongst them has paid the price for their acts, and others will follow. What do we gain by incarcerating or for that matter, executing a murderer in our country?
