After Ariel Sharon was named Defense Minister in ‘81, he went behind the back of senile Prime Minister Begin to run rogue terrorist operations in southern Lebanon. Dozens of bombs built in IDF facilities were given to agents to plant in civilian neighborhoods. One car bomb killed 83 people and injured 300, many of them women who got trapped in a burning clothing factory. Hundreds more were killed by these bombs, which were not directed at any military target. The goal was to make the Shi’ites, Christians, and Palestinians to think the others were planting the bombs killing their people in order to reignite a civil war. Sharon’s plan - give him credit for ambition, I guess - was that the Palestinians would expelled back to Jordan, where they would overthrow the Hashemite monarchy and turn Jordan into the Palestinian state.
When Israel invaded Lebanon the next year, Sharon continually lied to the Israeli government about what he was doing, basically taking IDF Nothern Command rogue and pursuing a personal war until what he said was a minor operation to secure the border grew into an Israeli attack and occupation of Beirut.
Under the watch of Sharon’s forces, the IDF sent a Christian militia allied to Israel into two refugee camps - Sabra and Shatila. Most of the men were gone, and the camps were filled with women, children, and old people. Some 1,000-2,000 people were massacred, mostly with knives and machetes. That’s how Sharon got his name, Butcher of Beirut.
This is all from mainstream Israeli sources. A lot of IDF officers and political officials who were serving at the time have denounced Sharon as a war criminal. None of this was forgotten when Sharon was elected Prime Minister in 2001.
So probably that, but there are others.
When Israel invaded Lebanon the next year, Sharon continually lied to the Israeli government about what he was doing, basically taking IDF Nothern Command rogue and pursuing a personal war until what he said was a minor operation to secure the border grew into an Israeli attack and occupation of Beirut.
Under the watch of Sharon’s forces, the IDF sent a Christian militia allied to Israel into two refugee camps - Sabra and Shatila. Most of the men were gone, and the camps were filled with women, children, and old people. Some 1,000-2,000 people were massacred, mostly with knives and machetes. That’s how Sharon got his name, Butcher of Beirut.
This is all from mainstream Israeli sources. A lot of IDF officers and political officials who were serving at the time have denounced Sharon as a war criminal. None of this was forgotten when Sharon was elected Prime Minister in 2001.
So probably that, but there are others.
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