-Caveat Lector- : On June 6, 1982 Israeli leaders escalated their conspiracy against : Lebanon : and waged a war of aggression to which they committed 90,000 troops. : The : objectives of the Israelis were to expel all Palestinians from : Lebanon, to : support the Phalangists to control all of Lebaon, to force the Maronite : President to make peace with Israel, and to reduce Lebanon to a puppet : state. : On August 30, 1982, Menachem Begin and ARIEL SHARON summoned the : President-elect of Lebanon, Bashir Gemayel, to Nahariya. In their book : ISRAEL'S LEBANON WAR, Ze'ev Schiff (Military Correspondent for Ha'artez : Newspaper) and Yehud Ya'arie state that Begin was "hardly seated before : he : launched into his attack. "Where do we stand with the peace treaty?" he : began abruptly in his starchiest manner..." Gemayel said, "I cannot : decide : on such matters alone. There is a government and political institutions : in : Lebanon, and they must be involved..." Begin interrupted: We believe : that : the first thing you must do as president is to visit Jerusalem or at : least : Tel Aviv...." : "We'll be in touch with you, sir, before Sept. 22," Begin said as he : took : leave of Gemayel. Since the date was the eve of his inauguration as : president, there was an edge of menace to Begin's au revoir.[ Israel's : Lebanon War, Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'arie, NY Simon and Schuster, 1984 : p. : 234-36] : Shortly afterward, the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, ordered : its : agents in Lebanon to explode a large amount of gelignite under the : building : where Bashir Gemayel and his top assistants were meeting. The bomb : blast on : 14 Sept. 1982 killed "president -elect Bashir Gemayel with 60" of his : assistants in the Phalangists headquarters in East Beirut. On the same : day, : Begin and SHARON, WITHOUT CABINET CONSULTATION, except for Foreign : Minister Yitzhak Shamir, set in action "Operation Iron Brain" for the : occupation of West Beirut." [ Franklin P. Lamb, ed. Israel's War in : Lebanon : (Boston, Mass. ; South End Press, 1984), p. 98] : Israeli forces occupied a great part of Lebanon, including the capital : city : of Beirut. They destroyed many Lebanese villages and the cities of Tyre : and : Sidon. They also completely destroyed the Palestinian refugee camps in : Lebanon, making the Palestinian refugees homeless for the second time. : When : they bombed and strafed Beirut thousands of people, mostly civilian men, : women and children, aged and infants alike, were killed, maimed, injured : and made homeless. : Israeli soldiers looted, pillaged and plundered many valuables from : Lebanese : villages and from the cities of Tyre, Sidon and Beirut, as well as from : the : Palestinian refugee camps. They stole radios, tv sets, appliances, and : household goods. In Tyre, Sidon and Beirut they stole many valuable : carpets, objets d'art and jewelry. : Excluding the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Lebanese : Red : Cross reported on 30 Nov. 1982 that 19,085 persons had been killed and : 31, : 915 wounded in the Israeli invasion, and that is West Beirut, for : example, : 80% of the casualites were civilians and one third of the casualties : WERE : LESS THAN 15 YEARS OLD. [ Lebanese Ministry of Information, South : Lebanon : 1948-1986, Beirut 1986 p. 26 ] : By June 17, 1982, 800,000 people had been displaced because of the : Israeli : invasion. 100,000 refugees were made homeless because of the : destruction : of the Palestinian refugee camps in the south. : Approximately four hours after Bashir Gemayel's death, Defense Minister : ARIEL SHARON and Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan [ the man directly involved : in : running Jonathan Pollard as a spy for Israel] decided to send the : Phalangists into the two camps. The reason the Israelis sent in the : Phalangists, as General Eitan later admitted, was "because we could give : them orders, whereas it was impossible to give the Lebanese army : orders." : On 19 Sept. 1982 the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 521 stating, : "Horrified by the massacre of Palestinian civilians in Beirut," the : Council : "condemns the criminal massacre" perpetrated in the Palestinian camps of : Sabra and Shatila. : On 24 Sept. 1982 the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution : "condemning : the criminal massacre of civilian Palestinians and others in Saabra and : Shatila." : On 16 December 1982 the General Assemblly denounced the Sabra and : Shatila : massacres "in the most vigorous terms," qualifying it "as genocide". : A commission of distinguished international Jurists, under chairmanship : of : 1974 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Sean MacBride of Ireland, held sessions : in : London from August 28, 1982 to investigate the Israeli invasion. The : Commission concluded after considering the evidence and the relevant : rules : of law that: : 1. The Government of Israel has committed ACTS OF AGGRESSION CONTRARY TO : INTERNATIONAL LAW. : 2. The Israeli Armed forced havve made use of weapons or methods of : warfare : forbidden by international law. ( cluster bombs, phosphorous shells). : 3. Palestinian, Lebanese and prisoners of other nationalities have BEEN : SUBJECTED TO TREATMENT FORBIDDEN BY INTERNATIONAL LAW. : 4. There has been DELIBERATE or INDISCRIMINATE or RECKLESS BOMBARDMENT : of a : civilian character of hospitals, schools and other non-military trgets. : 5. There has been systematic bombardment and other destruction of towns, : cities, villages and refugee camps. : 6. The acts of the Israeli Armed forces have caused the dispersal, : deportation and ill-treatment of populations IN VIOLATION OF : INTERNATIONAL LAW. : 7. The government of Israel has NO VALID REASONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW : FOR ITS INVASION OF LEBANON, for the manner in which it conducted : hostilities : or for its action as an occupying force. : 8. ISRAELI AUTHORITIES (this means the Fat Man) or forces were : involved, : DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY, in the massacres and other kilings that have : been : reported to have been carried out by Lebanese militia in the refugee : camps : of Sabra and Shatila in the Beirut area between 16 and 18 September. : Israel in Lebanon: Report of the International Commission to Enquire : into : Reported Violations of International Law by Israel during its Invasion : of : Lebanon (London: Ithaca Press, 1983)] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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