gelatik
04.05.02, 14:39
Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is one of the world’s most bloodstained
terrorists. He is responsible for the cold-blooded slaughter of at least 1,500
men, women and children in the Beirut refugee camps of Chatila and Sabra. Even
a formal Israeli commission found Sharon personally responsible for the
Lebanese massacres.
In 1982, as Israel’s defense minister, Sharon directed Israel's invasion of
Lebanon and the carpet bombing and devastation of the city of Beirut (In
Lebanon five times more women and children died than in the September New York
attack). This terror bombing was carried out by Jews using jet fighters and
bombs supplied by the United States.
After the Israeli military devastation and occupation, Sharon forcibly removed
Palestinian resistance fighters from Lebanon. Many Palestinian women, children
and old people were left behind in refugee camps near Beirut. The United States
publicly guaranteed their safety and promised that they would quickly be
reunited with their loved ones. When Sharon plotted their murder, he not only
planned a bloody act of terrorism against the refugees; he knew it was an act
of treachery against the United States that would raise intense hatred against
America.
On the night of September 16, 1982, Sharon sent Phalangist murder squads into
two Palestinian refugee camps, Sabra and Chatila. With Israeli tanks and troops
closely surrounding the camps to prevent any of the Palestinians from escaping,
the murder squads machine-gunned, bayoneted, and bludgeoned Palestinian
civilians all that night, the next day and the following night; all while the
Israelis surrounding the camps listened gleefully to the machine gun fire and
screams coming from inside. Sharon then sent in bulldozers to hide as much of
the atrocity as he could. At least 1500 Palestinian men, women and children
were butchered, and perhaps as many as 2500. (An official Lebanese
investigation set the figure at 2500) Even after the efforts of Sharon’s
bulldozers, many Palestinians remained unburied, and Red Cross workers found
whole families; including hundreds of elderly and little children, with their
throats cut or disemboweled. Uncounted numbers of women and girls were also
raped before they were slaughtered.
Ariel Sharon is sought for trial by the Hague Tribunal, the same body that
succeeded in extraditing former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for
charges of crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Sharon will not travel to Belgium
for fear of arrest by the International Court for the massacre.(5)
Although he is sought for his Chatila and Sabra murders, Sharon could be tried
for any of a dozen other massacres committed during his sterling career, crimes
against humanity that go back at least as far as 1953. The Israeli newspaper,
Ha’aretz, recalls Sharon’s leading of a massacre in the village of Kibya in
1953, “The soldiers of Major Ariel Sharon killed 70 Palestinians in the
reprisal raid, most of them women and children “
America, which clamored for the Hague Tribunal to arrest and try Milosevic,
pretends to be unaware of Sharon’s mass murder. Instead of handing Sharon an
arrest warrant for mass murder and putting him in the shackles that he
deserves, President Bush greets Ariel Sharon with handshakes and hugs! How the
world must snicker in disbelief when Bush confers with Sharon on “fighting
terrorism.”
If President Bush is truly serious about punishing nations that support or
harbor terrorists, he will have to begin with Israel, a nation that elected one
of the world’s worst terrorists and mass murderers as its the Head of State.
Does America’s Israel-controlled Senate punish Israel for harboring terrorists?
No, instead we supply their terrorists with billions of American taxpayer’s
dollars and the very weapons with which they kill!
Israel’s murder of the Palestinian refugees after the United States had
publicly guaranteed their safety was not only a crime against humanity, but
also one of treachery against America. Sharon and the others involved were
completely aware of America’s well-publicized promise of the refugees’ safety.
The Beirut Sabra and Chatila Massacre was the chief motivation of the Lebanese
suicide bombing attack that killed 241 American Marines in Beirut less than a
year later, and it clearly demonstrates how American support of Israeli
terrorism leads to terrible consequences for the United States. The Los Angeles
Times, in discussing a revealing book by a former agent of the Israeli Mossad
(secret service), showed that the Mossad had foreknowledge of the terrorist
attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, but treacherously did not
warn America.(7)
Among Ostrovsky's more shocking allegations are that Mossad failed to share
with the U.S. detailed intelligence that might have averted the 1983 suicide
bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks that killed 241 U.S. servicemen;…
