QUOTES

 

"[The Sabra and Shatilla killings was a] ‘horrendous massacre’ that showed humanity had sunk to an excess of barbarism. There are reports of hundreds and hundreds of victims, babies, women and old people, put to death in a pitiless way. There are no words adequate to condemn such crimes that shock the human and Christian conscience."
-- Pope John Paul II (New York Times, September 27, 1982)



"I’m crushed and terrified by the massacre and I think all of us have bloody hands. It is a time for repentance perhaps even before political solutions are possible. It’s Babi Yar all over again and this time we’re not innocent. We Jews are not innocent. Israel and the Begin Government . . . they are collaborators with terrorists."
-- Rabbi Arnold Wolf KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation, Chicago former Jewish chaplan at Yale. (New York Times, September 22, 1982)

 

''The man[Ariel Sharon], by his own confession in the Knesset last Wednesday, is an accessory to a crime and should be prosecuted,. . . A man who puts a snake into a child's bed and says: 'I'm sorry. I told the snake not to bite. I didn't know snakes were so dangerous.' It's impossible to understand. This man's a war criminal.''
-- Amos Elon Israeli journalist and author, The New York Times, Monday September 27, 1982 (Late City Final Edition, Section A; Page 6, Column 1)
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"It is ... clear that the events in Shatila and Sabra took place within the view of one of the main Israeli observation posts in west Beirut, and the Christian militiamen entered the area of the camps and left the area of the camps by passing through Israeli lines. Throughout the night, witnesses said, the Israelis provided light from flares over the refugee camps while the Christian militiamen were inside."
-- Thomas Friedman, special to the New York Times, Monday, September 20, 1982, (Late City Final Edition; Section A; Page 1, Column 5)
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"The Massacre was done by us. The Phalangists are our mercenaries, exactly as the Ukrainians and the Croatians and the Slovakians were the mercenaries of Hitler, who organized them as soldiers to do the work for him. Even so have we organized the assassins in Lebanon in order to murder the Palestinians."
-- Prof. Yeshayahu Leibovitz (deceased) Lecturer at Hebrew University and editor of Encyclopedia Hebraica

 

"Using the Phalange in West Beirut could have horrible results."

"You must stop the massacres. They are obscene. I have an officer in the camp counting the bodies. You ought to be ashamed. The situation is rotten and terrible. They are killing children. You are in absolute control of the area and you are therefore responsible for that area."
-- Morris Draper, U.S. Diplomat in East Beirut speaking to Bruce Kashdan, Israeli Foreign Ministry Official Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18, 1982






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