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...Jerusalem, the official investigation of the Beirut massacre continued, and once again the commission of inquiry heard testimony that appeared to contradict the previous statements of Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Lieut. Colonel Ze'ev Zeharin, an aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, testified that he was "100% sure" Sharon first spoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, two days before the massacre began, about the plan for Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the Palestinian camps. Sharon had testified that he first broached the subject on the following day. Zeharin also said Eitan had told him that...
This time, it appeared, the Defense Minister's strategy was to place the primary blame for the events that led to the mass murder on Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan and the Israeli army. Beyond that, Sharon seemed to be implying that the entire Begin Cabinet bore the responsibility for allowing the Lebanese Forces to enter the Palestinian camps...
...that is precisely what Begin did. Yet the process that had forced his hand also gave proof that the principles of democracy and justice on which Israel was founded had not been buried in the rubble of Sabra and Shatila. As former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gideon Rafael put it: "The people of Israel are not only a stiff-necked but a fundamentally decent people. They will not tolerate a government that has morally, politically and economically bankrupted the country...
...that he was requesting a leave of absence in protest over the killings. (He has since relented.) Mitzna bluntly told Sharon, "I have lost faith-in-you." More than 100 top Israeli officers, including everyone above the rank of brigadier general, met behind closed doors with Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan on Sept. 24 to complain about Sharon. A group of reservists opposed to the Lebanon invasion addressed a petition to Sharon last week signed by 1,000 of them, including 150 officers, asking not to be sent to Lebanon...
...assistance in evacuating their own casualties. At dawn Friday, Hobeika received Israeli permission to bring two additional battalions into the camps. As it turned out, only one battalion was used. Throughout the day and all that night, the murderous operation continued. On Friday, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan arrived and was told by his officers that whatever was going on inside the camps was not a military action but a kasach...