Amnesty International
"The Palestinians must be hit and it must be very painful. We must cause them losses, victims, so that they feel the heavy price"
Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, speaking to the press on 5 March 2002
"The IDF showed a widespread disregard for life, law and property.
People from outside the invaded areas, including journalists, United Nations agencies, other humanitarian workers and even diplomats, were prevented from gaining access to offer aid or report on what was going on."
"With six main cities and many villages effectively under siege, blocked off from the outside world, and with movement within the towns prohibited, a humanitarian disaster loomed as supplies of food and water ran out for many Palestinians.
Ambulances, including those of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), were not allowed to move or suffered lengthy and life-threatening delays. Medical personnel or those who tried to help the injured were fired on and the wounded bled to death on the street."
CNN.com - Memories of Sharon's past revived
As Israeli tanks roll, views harden ['Wag the Dog?']
Christian Science Monitor
Israel's Sharon announces 'harder' steps - February 22, 2002
Polls show public support is slipping, but Ariel Sharon says he won't alter course.
LA Times - Massacre Allegations Smolder in Camp Ruins
- TRACY WILKINSON, April 16, 2002
"The practice is not a new one for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose nickname is "The Bulldozer" because of his hard-driving style. Forces commanded by him leveled homes in the West Bank village of Kibya in 1953 in retaliation for the slaying by Palestinians of a Jewish woman and her two children. Sixty-nine people were killed in the houses, about half of them women and children. Sharon said at the time that he believed the homes were empty. The episode earned Israel its first formal U.N. condemnation"
Washington Cox Newspapers - Sharon, Warrior And Candidate:
Despite Past, A Political Comeback,
LARRY KAPLOW / Cox Washington Bureau. 01-28-01
There was the 1953 attack on Kibya, Jordan. In retaliation for the murder of three Israelis, Sharon's special Unit 101 raided the town and blew up 45 houses. They killed 69 people, about half of them women and children and won some of Israel's first serious international condemnation. ...
With the army controlling the entrances to two Palestinian refugee camps, [Sabra and Shatila] it allowed Lebanese militias to enter the camps on a "mopping up" mission. The militias engaged in three days of killing that left more than 800 dead. ...
An Israeli government commission determined that Sharon should have foreseen the massacre, and that his commanders had reason to know it was underway, but did not stop it. By request of the commission, he was forced to resign his post.
AP - Sharon regrets not killing Arafat in 1982
Mark Lavie, February 1, 2002
JERUSALEM (AP) - Ariel Sharon says he's sorry he didn't have Yasser Arafat "liquidated" while he had a chance 20 years ago, during an Israeli siege of Beirut. ...
As defense minister in 1982, Sharon directed an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, where Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization ruled a virtual state within a state. At first presented as a 48-hour operation to move the Palestinian forces out of southern Lebanon, the war expanded and Israeli forces eventually occupied Beirut. ...
"In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat," Sharon told the Maariv newspaper. "In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him." ...
Sharon's part in the Lebanon invasion drew him a rebuke from an official Israeli commission of inquiry, which found him indirectly responsible for a massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Christian militiamen in September 1982, while Sharon's troops controlled the area.
Synopsis on Events Leading Up to Sabra and Shatila
BBC - Sharon, Sabra & Shatila
UK Guardian - Smuggled into hospital in an ambulance under a pile of corpses
Peter Beaumont, April 5, 2002
"[Israeli Soldiers] took Elias to his daughter's house nearby and told him to knock on the door.
"The soldiers wanted them to open the door," he said yesterday.
"I shouted to my daughters that it was okay. As I was speaking I turned and lifted my arms." ...
The soldier behind him, one of four he says, opened fire without warning towards Elias and the door. The first bullet severed his index finger. The second hit him in the thigh. ...
Elias said they left him at the house, propped in a room and told his daughter that the "old man had had a stroke".
"[n]either side is capable of making peace, or even sitting in the same room to discuss it. The Americans now face a historic choice. For 50 years, they have played the double game of both guaranteeing Israel's security and serving as honest broker in the region. This game can't go on. Either America gave a tacit green light to the Israeli operation, or it tried to restrain Sharon and failed. Either way, now that the Powell peace mission has failed, the American president looks ridiculous or devious, or both. He can't withdraw and he can't stand the embarrassment of continued diplomacy without result. The prestige and leadership of the United States, its vital national interests, are now on the line. Without a settlement in the Middle East, it has no possibility of support from Arab governments in its campaign against Islamist terrorists."
Israel faces rage over 'massacre'
- London and Brussels politicians demand UN investigation of Jenin allegations
- Ian Black in Brussels, Ewen MacAskill and Nicholas Watt
- The Guardian, Wednesday April 17, 2002
"US support for Israel remains strong compared with Europe, where anger against Israel reached levels not seen since the massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in the Lebanon in 1982."
- With the Israeli army still blocking full access to Jenin, it is impossible to establish even a rough body count. However, both Amnesty and the New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday called for inquiries.
Absolutely!
You seem to think there's something wrong with that.
How do you suggest we fight the terrorist bastards?
And you think this is bad?
Sounds like Sharon knows what the hell he's supposed to do, I'd say.
Can the whole world be wrong? Damned right!
But it is not the whole wold, just the leftish press that has been proven, time and again, to be wrong about almost everything.