Word: phalangist
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...this kind of careful, deliberate prose, Israel's official commission of inquiry described the dreadful events of the three days last September when Israelis allowed Lebanese Phalangist soldiers to enter the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, where the Christian militiamen proceeded to murder between 700 and 800 Arabs. After four months of testimony and deliberation, the Israeli commission last week delivered its report on the Beirut massacre, and it proved to be a stinging indictment of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and several military officials, concluding that they shared an "indirect" responsibility for what happened in the Beirut...
...DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT as simply an error of judgement the decision to send Phalangist troops instead of the regular Lebanese army into the camps. That order was given by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and the report infers that Sharon did not, as he claims, attempt to persuade the standard troops to enter the camps. Instead, he turned directly to the Phalangists, who could be counted on to do the dirty work of removing any terrorists from Shatila and Sabra. Sharon, the report concludes, did not order the killings, but he should have anticipated them...
Equally terrifying is the behavior of some IDF officers once the Phalangists had gone into the camps. Just hours after the attack began. Brig Gen. Amos Yaron, the Israeli division commander in Beirut, was informed by one of his men that something was amiss. He did nothing. Two hours later, a Phalangist commander briefed a group of Israelis, including Yaron, that 300 people had been killed. Yaron simply warned the commander to cease such actions and left it at that. The massacre continued for two more days before the IDF put a stop...
...life. When a bomb exploded hi his car, Jumblatt suffered minor injuries, but a bodyguard and at least three bystanders were killed. More than 100 people have been killed in the past two months in clashes between the militia of Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain order by doubling the size of its 1,200-man Marine contingent in .,. Lebanon. The Administra-|tion said it would consider doing so only after the with...
...headed by Amin Gemayel's brother Bashir, who was slain nine days before his scheduled inauguration as President two months ago. Perhaps more serious than the disappointment of the Israelis, from Gemayel's point of view, is the dissatisfaction of some members of the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-dominated organization of Christian militias that was once headed by Bashir. Many Phalangists resent Amin's attempts at conciliation with the Muslims, and they oppose an effort by his government to gain emergency powers for the next eight months...