-Caveat Lector- SHARON THE WAR CRIMINAL Let's see how propaganda works. The test case can be the current attempt by pro-Palestinian groups and individuals to demonize Ariel Sharon as the butcher of Sabra and Shatilla. This has been going on for two decades, but the latest ploy is charging him with war crimes in the international court in Belgium where a Palestinian woman is bringing the charges against the Israeli head of state. This woman was raped and members of her family were brutally massacred by Christian Militiamen who hated the Palestinians for THEIR brutal occupation of Southern Lebanon and the numerous atrocities perpetrated by the great Palestinian fighters who were ultimately driven out by Sharon. Does this woman ( or even ANYBODY ELSE ) bring charges against the known rapists and killers? Of course not. There is no political advantage in doing that. Do you feel the cynicism? This should be seen as politically driven. Not only by the Palestinians (who know the truth and are using the tragedy of Sabra & Shatilla the same way they cynically use the deaths of their own children to achieve the status of super victim), but also those with specific political agenda like the BBC, as well as most of the Euro media who's economies depend on Arab oil from the Middle East, and have no particular intrest in Jews. The Palestinians have gotten to understand that their most receptive mass audience in the West are Liberals. Liberals respond to victimology as Pavlov's dogs responded to bells. They begin to salivate for the opportunity to prove to themselves and other Liberals what good people they are by sympathizing with a perceived victim while actually doing nothing of consequence. This is how the USA and Euro Globalists got a majority of their citizens to back the destruction of Yugoslavia. The aggressors, the Albanian Separatists, were presented as victims of the evil Serbs even though they were paid by the CIA and German Secret Services to start a secessionist revolt in a country which the Globalists wanted to destroy for being a non-Capitalist economy. By doing this, the West's ( war criminal ) media began a one sided exposition of the horrors of civil war. PR firms were hired to plan and manage the " victimization " of the Albanians. This worked splendidly. Gullible Liberals, were the specific target of this campaign because they are the current majorities in both the US and the EU. But being a majority does not mean that they are not shallow and stupid. NATO destroyed an old reliable ally who helped save Europe from Hitler by forcing the Germans to start Barbarosa much later than planned. The Serb rebellion tied up German armor until the Serbs were defeated and sent to concentration camps to die. They were directly responsible for Germany's late winter invasion of Russia. The Albanians ( like the Palestinians ) were Nazi allies. But the Albanians, led by the KLA, were then, and are now the biggest drug dealers in Europe. They are also the major group responsible for for the sex/slave trade of Eastern European girls. Their drug and slave base is in Kosovo. But hey! That's all OK. Why? Because they were accepted as victims. gullible - adj. easily cheated or tricked; credulous n. gullibility adv. gullibly gullible modif. � Syn. innocent, trustful, simple; see naive. See credulous, superstitious, trusting Nurev PS: Be sure to read part 2. You will find quite a surprise. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Witness to Sabra and Shatila: why Sharon is a war criminal 15 JUNE 2001 Dr. Ben Alofs http://metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-24/opin/witness_to_sabra.htm I am a Dutch doctor, currently living in north Wales. In the summer of 1982 I was working as a nurse in West Beirut, which at the time was being besieged by the Israeli army. The American negotiator Philip Habib had mediated an agreement, according to which the Israeli army would refrain from occupying West Beirut after the Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas had left. A second fundamental aspect of the agreement was that the United States would guarantee the security of the remaining Palestinian civilian population. The evacuation, supervised by an international peacekeeping force, went smoothly, and was completed on September 1, much earlier than September 26, the date that had been agreed on. The international peacekeeping force left between September 10 and 13. On September 3 the first violation of the Habib agreement took place when Israeli forces occupied Bir Hassan in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Before that, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon had stated he wanted the peacekeeping forces out of Beirut. After the assassination of Bashir Gemayel, the charismatic and ruthless leader of the Maronite Phalangist allies of Israel, Sharon ordered the invasion of West Beirut under the pretext of restoration of 'law and order'. Contrary to this statement, West Beirut was perfectly quiet at that moment. The invasion was a serious violation of the Habib agreement. But, most important, from the start of the occupation of West Beirut, the Israeli Army, being an occupation force under the Fourth Geneva Convention and Protocol 1, became responsible for the security of the civilian population under its control. Israeli journalists Zeev Schiff and Ehud Yaari describe how Sharon insisted on sending Phalangist militiamen into the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila (see Israel's Lebanon War). To accomplish this, Sharon had held meetings on September 15 with Elie Hobeika, Fadi Frem and Zahi Bustani (leaders of the militiamen) as well as with Amin and Pierre Gemayel, the political leaders of the Phalangist party. Sharon and the leaders of the Israeli army were very well aware of the mood of the Phalangists shortly after the murder of their leader and knew what would happen if they were let into the refugee camps. When the Tell Al Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp was captured by Christian militias in the summer of 1976, over 1000 civilians were slaughtered. Sharon gave the green light for the Phalangists to enter Sabra and Shatila. They did so at dusk on September 16. I was working in the Gaza Hospital in Sabra. Many wounded were carried into the hospital and our morgue was full within a short time. Most of the victims suffered bullet wounds, some had been hit by shrapnel. On September 17 it became clear that the Kataeb (Phalangists) and/or the militiamen of Saad Haddad (funded and armed by Israel) were slaughtering the civilian population. At night the murderers were assisted by Israeli flares. A 10-year-old boy was carried into the hospital. He had been shot, but was alive. He had spent the whole night wounded, lying under the dead bodies of his parents, brothers and sisters. I was working with a team of Scandinavian, British, American, Dutch and German doctors and nurses. We had insisted that the Palestinian hospital staff flee to the northern part of West Beirut. On Saturday morning September 18, we were forced by the Phalangists/Haddad militiamen to abandon our patients and leave Sabra and Shatila via the main road. We passed by hundreds of women, children and men who had been rounded up. We saw bodies in the road and the small alleyways. The militiamen shouted at us and called us Baader Meinhof, the German terrorist group. A Palestinian nurse who thought he would be safe with us, was identified and taken away behind a wall. A moment later came the gunshots. Just before we left the camp I saw an image that will forever be in my mind: a large mound of red earth with arms and legs sticking out. Alongside the mound stood an army bulldozer with Hebrew markings. Just outside the camp we were ordered to take off our hospital clothing and we were lined up against a wall. It was at that moment that an Israeli army officer drove up in an army vehicle. He saved our lives, ordering the militiamen to hand us over to the Israelis. Alongside the southern and western borders of the camps we saw Israeli tanks and halftracks. Eventually, two of us were permitted to go back to the hospital with a pass written in Hebrew and Arabic. There certainly was coordination between the Israelis and the militiamen. And not once did the Israeli military command try to respond to reports of killings by putting an end to the slaughter. Groups of civilians coming out of the camps with white flags were being sent back. Even on Saturday morning, September 18, when we were taken out of the camps, we saw fresh groups of Phalangist militiamen entering the camps under Israeli supervision. About 20 minutes after we had passed the large group of women, children and elderly in the main road of Sabra, we heard an orgy of machinegun fire. Swee, an orthopedic doctor, told me that a Palestinian mother had tried to give her baby to him, as if she knew what was going to happen. The baby was pulled out of Swee's hands and given back to her mother. On Sunday, September 19, I went back to Sabra and Shatila together with two Danish and a Dutch journalist. The Lebanese army had surrounded the camp and tried to keep journalists out. We found a way in. The Israelis had told the militiamen to leave the camps some time during Saturday. The militiamen had wreaked much more destruction and slaughter after we had been taken out of the camps on Saturday morning. We will never know exactly how many people were butchered during those terrible days of September 16-18 in 1982. 1500 perhaps? 2000? Or even more? ======================================================================== Sharon held responsible for 1982 Lebanese massacre on BBC programme LONDON, June 18 (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should be held responsible for the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon, according to a former International War Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor. Speaking on a BBC television programme aired Sunday, Judge Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor for the UN criminal tribunals for both the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, said: "If the person who gave the command knows, or should know... that there's a situation where innocent civilians are going to be injured or killed then that person is as responsible, in my book more responsible even, than the people who carry out the orders". Sharon was Defence Minister in 1982 when Israeli forces invaded Lebanon and allowed their allies in the Lebanese Christian militias to massacre up to 2,000 people in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps. and massacre up to 2,000 people. He resigned from his post as defence minister after a 1983 Israeli inquiry concluded that he had failed to act to prevent the massacre. "In the case of Sabra and Shatilla, clearly the Kahan Commission (which conducted the enquiry) found that very serious crimes had been committed and I have no doubt that any decent person would regret the fact that not a single criminal prosecution followed," Goldstone told the BBC programme, entitled "The Accused". Richard Falk, Professor of International Law at Princeton University, said on the same programme that Sharon was clearly responsible for the events of "There is no question in my mind that he is indictable for the knowledge he had or should have had. "Sharon's specific command responsibility arises from the fact that he was the minister of Defence in touch with the field commanders, that he actually was present there in Beirut, that he met with the Phalange leadership (the Christian militia which carried out the massacres)." Former Sharon lawyer Dov Weissglass, described the comments as "simply totally baseless". "This is an insult," Sharon spokesman Ranaan Gissen told the BBC. "What cries out is the injustice that is being done to a man here. After 18 years. A great injustice." On its website, the BBC reported that it had "rebuffed intense criticism from the Israeli Government" over the documentary. In its statement the BBC said it stood by the story, which it called "a legitimate analysis of a human rights issue". In January, before his landslide election as prime minister, Sharon expressed his regrets for what he said was a "terrible tragedy," but refused to apologise. "To apologise for what?" the 73-year-old former general told the Arab Israeli weekly newspaper Kul-al-Arab. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Kahan Commission found that no Israeli either instigated or conspired to cause the Sabra and Shatila massacres 14 February 2001 Michael Lerner begins his "The scary Sharon"(The Jerusalem Post Feb.14) with the assertion that Sharon's troops at the Sabra and Shatila massacres "only supervised, and didn't personally conduct the shooting of hundreds of civilians." As everyone knows, to `supervise' means "to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.} during execution ... have the oversight and direction of" (American College Dictionary). There is not the slightest hint to that effect in the Report of the Kahan Commission which investigated the massacres. To the contrary, the Report stresses that the Commission's investigation found no reason for charges such as those made by Rabbi Lerner. Furthermore, the Kahan Commission found that no Israeli either instigated or conspired to cause the massacres: "We have no doubt that no conspiracy or plot was entered into between anyone from the Israeli political echelon or from the military echelon in the I.D.F. and the Phalangists with the aim of perpetrating atrocities in the camps ... We assert that in having the Phalangists enter the camps, no intention existed on the part of anyone who acted on behalf of Israel to harm the non-combatant population, and that the events that followed did not have the concurrence or assent of anyone from the political or civilian echelon who was active regarding the Phalangists' entry into the camps. . . . the direct responsibility for the perpetration of the acts of slaughter rests on the Phalangist forces " Source: The Beirut Massacre - The Complete Kahan Commission Report (authorized translation} Karz-Cohl Publishing,Inc.1983 {pp.54-55) The Commission found Sharon carried an "indirect responsibility" for the killings because he was not sufficiently aware of what should have been expected from the Lebanese Phalangists and did not take actions to prevent them. ============================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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