Reply #78: Oh..so he wasn't found responsible and subsequently ...

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... resigned as defense minister?

Tell me the truth you know so well.

The Kahan Commission (named after the President of the Israeli Supreme Court) that investigated the massacre in 1983 concluded that “Minister of Defense Sharon bears personal responsibility” and should “draw the appropriate personal conclusions arising out of the defects revealed with regard to the manner in which he discharged the duties of his office.” The commission recommended that Prime Minister Menachem Begin remove Sharon from office if he did not resign. Sharon did resign as minister of defense, though he subsequently assumed other cabinet positions. Annexes of the commission report have not yet been made public, and it is not known if they contain additional information specific to Sharon´s involvement.

From: Human Rights News

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For Israelis, the most interesting part of the book, called "From Israel to Damascus," concerns the massacres at the Sabra and Shatilla Palestinian refugee camps. It has long been Israel's claim that the IDF knew nothing of the Christian militia plan to move into the camps and clear them of Palestinian terrorists.

But in the detailed memoir, based on diaries he claims he wrote during the events, Hatem reports that then-defense minister Ariel Sharon met with Hubeika, then head of the Christian militias, on Sept. 15, 1982, the day after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel after paying a condolence call on the Gemayel family.

Hatem calls himself an admirer of Sharon - indeed, throughout the interview, his nostalgia for Menachem Begin's government comes through.

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