[
Sabra and Shatilla? You mean the refugee camp where Palestinians were slaughtered by Phalange Christians?
Sharon, dude.
The Jews did it.
Blame the Jooooos
Really, Lipush, this kind of posting is far beneath you.
You're an intelligent, informed person and you KNOW the history. You know as well as I do that the massacares were coordinated and planned by both Phalange and the IDF
(with the IDF even providing flare lighting over the area where the massacres took place) and every Israel person should feel disgusted by that.
It may be far beneath me, but the fact here was and still is that ARAB Christians and ARAB Muslims had the conflict between them, but for some reason the JEWS are in need to apologize.
The IDF may have "loaded the gun" but the choice if to fire it or not was not ours, but to the people of Lebanon. Guns don't kill, people do.
If it was a war only between Arab Christians and Arab Muslims, Israeli troops would not have been in Beirut to begin with.
I totally believe that Israel should apologise, and should remember and should teach their children what happened. It's an imperative to learn from history.
In no way does this mean that the Phalange do not hold the lions share of blame for this, and that should weigh on their backs until the end of time. I have a hard time hearing people use the word 'Christian' about people who gang raped women and castrated young boys as they went about their killing. It's bestial.
The only thing that spares the Phalange more condemenation is that they are such a small group, as are the Druze and many of the other groups. They aren't a country or a government or even a region, and are well below the radars of most of us.
Please tell us why the IDF was in Beirut then