In Lebanon, Ariel Sharon, Criminal complex heritage vanish and ally | Slate
In Lebanon, the complex legacy of Ariel Sharon, criminal and ally Author of the Israeli invasion of 1982, responsible for the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, vanish Ariel Sharon is in the Lebanese collective memory, one who has worked in favor of an alliance between Israeli Jews and the Christians of Lebanon. Her work there has paradoxically strengthened the enemies of Israel.
A u Lebanon, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday, January 11, is the foremost man of the massacres in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982, preceded vanish the invasion by Israel in June of the same year, when the IDF invaded the south cedar before returning to Beirut.
Originally, the operation would be limited to an area of 40 km inside Lebanese territory to push the fighters vanish Liberation Organization (PLO) present in particular in southern Lebanon, and that military action against Israel was legitimized by the Cairo agreement of 1969.
The military, led by Ariel Sharon, then defense minister, however, decided to run a more ambitious project that was to make a breakthrough to Beirut. The aim: to drive the armed forces of the PLO, entrenched in the western part of the city, and their leader Yasser Arafat.
From this point of view, the operation will be a success: Palestinian fighters will be expelled from the Lebanese capital on September 1. But "Operation Peace for Galilee" also Soldera and especially a heavy human toll. During the three-month siege of Beirut (June-September 1982), some 29,000 Lebanese and Palestinians were killed, including 80% of them civilians, according to UNICEF, while 300,000 civilians are deprived of water and electricity in the western sector of the capital.
Sharon's vanish personal involvement in the massacres of Palestinian civilians has taken shape over the years. The hypothesis attributing full responsibility to the Christian militia allied to Israel at the time it was gradually dissipated in revelations or highly suggestive incidents.
The results of an Israeli study (Kahan commission in 1983), followed by giant demonstrations in Tel Aviv, had also forced the "Butcher of Beirut"-one of the nicknames assigned to Sharon to resign Minister of Defence. Documents from the national archives (published in February 2012 by the Israeli daily Haaretz), and evidence of early Christian leaders vanish came the hypothesis of an involvement of IDF commandos (Sayeret Matkal's) and former Israeli Prime Minister. Defend the Christian enclave
What we remember less is the name of Ariel Sharon remains in Lebanese minds (as well as Israeli vanish and wider Arab) as a synonym for a first attempt to Judeo-Christian alliance in the Arab-Muslim world . "Operation Peace for Galilee" had indeed also aims to help the Christian community to take control of the country for the signing of a peace agreement with Israel.
Taken under fire from Palestinian militias and the Syrian army of Hafez al-Assad, the Lebanese Forces, founded by Bashir Gemayel to defend "Christian enclave", decided in effect at the beginning of the Lebanon War (1975-1990 ) to turn to Israel in a final attempt to save their project of an independent Lebanon and prevent a forced settlement of Palestinians. Militiamen were sent to Israel for military training supervised by IDF officers while on a political level, meetings were held between officials from both sides to try to define a common vision and to strengthen the links between non-Mohammedan Middle East with several interests in common communities.
For Israelis, Ariel Sharon face-the success of the plan "Peace for Galilee" and the expulsion of 15,000 Palestinian and Syrian gunmen in Beirut, followed by the election of Bashir Gemayel, were in a real sense not forward towards the achievement of common goals.
This reconciliation with Christians advocated by Sharon was not a recent thing. Interviews between Zionist leaders and members of the Lebanese Christian community took place in the early twentieth century, even before the creation of the State of Israel. In 1937, David Ben-Gurion (who later became Prime Minister of Israel) stressed that Lebanon vanish "is a natural ally of the Jews of the Land of Israel" [1], making the creation of a Christian state the One of the major objectives of the foreign policy of the future state.
But the Israeli dream of a lasting alliance with the
In Lebanon, the complex legacy of Ariel Sharon, criminal and ally Author of the Israeli invasion of 1982, responsible for the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, vanish Ariel Sharon is in the Lebanese collective memory, one who has worked in favor of an alliance between Israeli Jews and the Christians of Lebanon. Her work there has paradoxically strengthened the enemies of Israel.
A u Lebanon, the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday, January 11, is the foremost man of the massacres in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982, preceded vanish the invasion by Israel in June of the same year, when the IDF invaded the south cedar before returning to Beirut.
Originally, the operation would be limited to an area of 40 km inside Lebanese territory to push the fighters vanish Liberation Organization (PLO) present in particular in southern Lebanon, and that military action against Israel was legitimized by the Cairo agreement of 1969.
The military, led by Ariel Sharon, then defense minister, however, decided to run a more ambitious project that was to make a breakthrough to Beirut. The aim: to drive the armed forces of the PLO, entrenched in the western part of the city, and their leader Yasser Arafat.
From this point of view, the operation will be a success: Palestinian fighters will be expelled from the Lebanese capital on September 1. But "Operation Peace for Galilee" also Soldera and especially a heavy human toll. During the three-month siege of Beirut (June-September 1982), some 29,000 Lebanese and Palestinians were killed, including 80% of them civilians, according to UNICEF, while 300,000 civilians are deprived of water and electricity in the western sector of the capital.
Sharon's vanish personal involvement in the massacres of Palestinian civilians has taken shape over the years. The hypothesis attributing full responsibility to the Christian militia allied to Israel at the time it was gradually dissipated in revelations or highly suggestive incidents.
The results of an Israeli study (Kahan commission in 1983), followed by giant demonstrations in Tel Aviv, had also forced the "Butcher of Beirut"-one of the nicknames assigned to Sharon to resign Minister of Defence. Documents from the national archives (published in February 2012 by the Israeli daily Haaretz), and evidence of early Christian leaders vanish came the hypothesis of an involvement of IDF commandos (Sayeret Matkal's) and former Israeli Prime Minister. Defend the Christian enclave
What we remember less is the name of Ariel Sharon remains in Lebanese minds (as well as Israeli vanish and wider Arab) as a synonym for a first attempt to Judeo-Christian alliance in the Arab-Muslim world . "Operation Peace for Galilee" had indeed also aims to help the Christian community to take control of the country for the signing of a peace agreement with Israel.
Taken under fire from Palestinian militias and the Syrian army of Hafez al-Assad, the Lebanese Forces, founded by Bashir Gemayel to defend "Christian enclave", decided in effect at the beginning of the Lebanon War (1975-1990 ) to turn to Israel in a final attempt to save their project of an independent Lebanon and prevent a forced settlement of Palestinians. Militiamen were sent to Israel for military training supervised by IDF officers while on a political level, meetings were held between officials from both sides to try to define a common vision and to strengthen the links between non-Mohammedan Middle East with several interests in common communities.
For Israelis, Ariel Sharon face-the success of the plan "Peace for Galilee" and the expulsion of 15,000 Palestinian and Syrian gunmen in Beirut, followed by the election of Bashir Gemayel, were in a real sense not forward towards the achievement of common goals.
This reconciliation with Christians advocated by Sharon was not a recent thing. Interviews between Zionist leaders and members of the Lebanese Christian community took place in the early twentieth century, even before the creation of the State of Israel. In 1937, David Ben-Gurion (who later became Prime Minister of Israel) stressed that Lebanon vanish "is a natural ally of the Jews of the Land of Israel" [1], making the creation of a Christian state the One of the major objectives of the foreign policy of the future state.
But the Israeli dream of a lasting alliance with the
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