First, let's take a look at
Israel's terrorism against the
Palestinians.
Israel: a mass murderer as Head of State
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.4
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." 6