The Belgian High Court's recent ruling that it was competent to try Israelis on charges related to the massacre perpetrated by Lebanese Christians against Palestinian Moslems in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in September 1982 was probably the most serious and impudent anti-Israeli legal decision ever made by a democratic country. It stated that the court could try, in far-off Belgium, Ariel Sharon, who served as defense minister at the time, then chief of General Staff Rafael Eitan, and Amos Yaron and Amir Drori, generals serving under his command. The court ruled that while proceedings against Sharon would be...