Reply #87: The demonization of Ariel Sharon

[ppaul2005]

First I have to apologize for my English since My english is not good.
I am portuguese and I live in Lisbon.
When it comes to the subject..., Sharon is not being whitewashed. It is the other way around. Sharon was demonised , has been demonised , for years.

Actually both Sharon and Arafat , were responsible for human right abuses during the Lebanese Civil war.



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January 20, 1976, Palestinians and their leftist allies launched their final assault on the Christian town of Damour which lay across the Sidon - Beirut highway about 20 km south of Beirut. The relentless pounding the town received resulted in the deaths of many. In the siege that had been established on 9 January the Palestinians cut off food and water supplies and refused to allow the Red Cross to take out the wounded. Infants and children as well as the elderly died of dehydration.


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the majority of the population of Damour was evacuated by sea but about 500 civilians defended by some 20 mostly Ahrar troops did not make it out in time. Damour was captured, the defenders were executed, the civilians were lined up against the walls of their houses and shot, their houses were then dynamited. Many of the young women had been raped and babies had been shot at close range at the back of the head. 149 bodies lay in the streets for days afterward and 200 other civilians were never seen again. In all about 582 civilians had been murdered. The horror did not end there, the old Christian cemetery was next, coffins were dug up the dead robbed, vaults opened, and bodies and skeletons thrown across the grave yard. Damour was then transformed into a stronghold of Fatah and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

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Arafat was involved in these crimes, not to speak about the munich massacre , back in 1973.


So the question , is
Why the media does keep pointing the finger At Sharon and does ignore the crimes of Yasser Arafat ?

The attacks against Sharon are politically motivated since the fellow that actually did the massacres of Sabra and Chatilla , Hobeika, afterward became a member of the Lebanese Government , and in the media he was almost forgotten.

Arafats crimes were also forgotten.

Therefore at least compared with hobeika as well as Arafat one might say Sharon was , has been demonised.

Both Sharon and Arafat did contribute to killings in Lebanon , but while the deeds of Arafat were forgotten , people are constantly reminded of the role of Sharon .



http://www.cedarland.org/war.html