Lebanon - Islamists "Palestinians" massacre of Christians in Damour that brought Christian Arabs killing "Palestinians" in Sabra Shatila

You might have only heared about the massacre at Sabra Shatila through a pro "Palestinian" propagandist that have one, and nothing but one issue, no, nothing that has to with justice whatsoever, but to persecute Israel and denegrate it.

It is only natural that they blame ANYTHING on the Zionists, even though the only connection to the case where Arab christians killed the Arab Palestinians in Sabra Shatila is the "charge" that Sharon did not prevent the Arab Christians from doing that... in other words Sharon did not rush to help the "palestinians"...

Truth is however, that not much is known what proceeded it, the Damour Massacre is almost not talked about, it was one of the major reasons why the Arab Christians in Lebanon decided the had enough with the "Palestinian" continuing crimes in coordination with Syria's occupying forces, in their country.

http://www.truelebanon.bravehost.com...slideshow.html Damour's Massacre Slideshow

http://www.lfpics.com/other/dammour/ LebaneseForces.com - Damour Massacre (1976)

http://www.lebaneseforces.com/blastfromthepast002.asp Historical Facts - the Massacre and destruction of Damour

http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/...ka_damour.html Hobeika - Damour

hI KIWI

Thank you for this new thread you have created.

i well look at the links in closer detail.

But this paragraph is quite shocking.... Its rather like that evil bastard Stalin who got the red-army to standback outside of Warsaw while that other evil bastard Hitler masacred loads of jewish civilians in the warsaw Ghettos.

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zak

Wikipedia is a less biased source:

Late 1975: Black Saturday. Four Phalangists found murdered; in response the Phalange murders 200-600 Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims.
Early 1976: Karantina Massacre. Maronite troops backed by Syria massacre over 1000 Palestinians, Shia and others.
Two days later: Damour massacre. (Possibly Syrian backed) Palestinian militias massacre about 300 Maronites.
Late 1976: Tel al-Zaatar Massacre. Syrian backed coalition of Phalangists and anti-Palestinian group 'Guardian of the Cedars' massacre thousands of Palestinians.
Late 1982: Sabra and Shatila massacre. Israeli backed Phalangists massacre 700-2000 Palestinians.
1985 - 1986: War of the camps. Thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilian casualties mainly involving Syrian and Lebanese forces.

It wasn't called a civil war for nothing. I doubt that any of the parties involved - Lebanon, PLO, Syria or Israel - has much to be proud of.

Hi zsep,

thank you for your comments....

And how true you are with the above, you could also throw a few more antions into the mix as well. These countries/ organisations ahve had some dispicable leaders.

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Take care
zak

Dear Zephyr I don't know what you mean "less bias" by wikipedia, of course they are not impartial, what does that mean "backed" the massacre? no evidence of that, and Sharon won his suing the "Time" that jumped into this very conclusion.
The only "incriminating" paper ois the Khan commission (which Wikipedia probably refers to) but nothing about that document suggest any ACTIVE Sharon in it, only "did not stop the massacre" (that is ONLY according to the opinion that Sharon even knew about it)

Zak, nice to hear from you I hope all is well with you, I did not quite understood the analagy.

Hi kwiw

yes i am fine, i hope you are doing ok to...

Its a pity you could not understand the slight comparison i was trying to draw... i would ahve expected someone of you undoubted first for knowledge to be able to draw some sort of crude comparison... obviously the scale of it is a diffeerent

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zak

Frankly, I think if I were Jewish, I would shut up about Sabra Shatila.

One aspect of the complex internecine politics of the Lebanon which is not widely known is that Israel has from time to time sought informal alliances and agreements with the exactly the same Maronite "families" that, during WWII, sided with the Nazi-backed Vichy Régime against the Free French.
(I use the word families in, shall we say, a tribal sense.)

I only happened to learn of this through a relationship with a Lebanese girl twenty-odd years ago. (She regarded with distaste her grandfather's involvement with both the Vichyists and the Israelis.) I don't believe much has been written on this subject. However, I think it is pretty widely accepted that the Israelis have always been very ready to "subsidise" indiscriminately elements that might cause disharmony among their enemies. Well, at least they realise that the lure of financial reward is not confined to Jews.

I would call it uncivil