A Preventable Massacre (NY TIMES)

[choie]

By SETH ANZISKA
Published: September 16, 2012

ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways. Nearly all of the dead were women, children and elderly men.

Thirty years later, the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps is remembered as a notorious chapter in modern Middle Eastern history, clouding the tortured relationships among Israel, the United States, Lebanon and the Palestinians. In 1983, an Israeli investigative commission concluded that Israeli leaders were “indirectly responsible” for the killings and that Ariel Sharon, then the defense minister and later prime minister, bore “personal responsibility” for failing to prevent them.

More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/a-preventable-massacre.html?ref=opinion

[uppityperson]

2. Less than 2 months to the election just might not be the right time to try and throw it to Mitt,

at least not on a democratic supporting forum.

What bothers you about President Barack Hussein Obama's stance on Israel?

What does your post have to do with the OP's topic of Sept. 16, 1982?

[King_David]

3. The Sabra and Shatila massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the massacre of between 762 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese Shiite civilians, by a Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia, in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war.