Yep. Just like the Jews who were marched to box cars. Anti-Semites always ask that question about the Jews. "Why did they allow themselves to be herded like sheep? Why didn't they resist?" Heavily armed thugs be damned.Your question is about why unarmed women, children, and the elderly didn't defend themselves against heavily armed militia?My question was about why didn't the people defend themselves.Because the PLO fighters left the camps prior to the massacres.
"The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the slaughter of between 762 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese Shiite civilians, by a Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia, in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon between September 16 and September 18, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war.
"The massacre was presented as retaliation for the assassination of newly elected Lebanese president Bachir Gemayel, the leader of the Lebanese Kataeb Party. It was wrongly assumed that Palestinian militants had carried out the assassination, which is now generally attributed to native, pro-Syrian militants.
"Israel invaded Lebanon with the intention of rooting out the PLO. Under the supervision of the Multinational Force the PLO withdrew from Lebanon following weeks of battles in West Beirut and shortly before the massacre took place."
Can you think of any valid purpose Sharon would have had for allowing revenge-seeking militia to have access to unarmed civilians for three days?
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