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Bursting Bubbles
- Feb 24, 2012
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How would you know anything about being a partriotic american.
Iran's terrorist group Hezbollah bombed and killed the marines in Beirut.You seem to be the only who is confused CG
Being a patriotic American means supporting the United States.
Not swearing allegiance to defend a foreign entity like Israel.
Hundreds lost their lives in the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Although the death toll is put at 3500, an exact number has never been reached. Ariel Sharon started to be called Butcher of Beirut after commanding the massacre in 1982.
On 16 September 1982, pro-Israeli radical right-wing Christian Phalangist militiamen raided Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in southern Beirut, the Lebanese capital, and murdered 3500 people.
By keeping Sabra and Shatila camps under siege, the Israeli army led by Ariel Sharon prevented Palestinians from escaping the camps, which were designated as safe zones by international conventions. The Lebanese Phalangists, on the other hand, did nothing to prevent the Israeli troops from besieging Sabra and Shatila camps housing children, women and elderly people and overlooked the killing of camp residents by pro-Israeli radical right-wing Christian Phalangists.
Many sources claim that phosphorus bombs were used in the attacks, while Dr. Amal Shama, who was in the region when the massacre took place, described the attacks as: I had to put babies into pails of water to save them from flames. When I took them out after half and hour, their bodies were still burning. They continued to burn even at the morgue.
In an article he published in The Independent, Robert Fisk summarized what he witnessed right after the raid at the camps. For everyone who stood in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps in Beirut on 18 September 1982, Sharons name is synonymous with butchery; with bloated corpses and disembowelled women and dead babies, with rape and pillage and murder. Even when I walk these streets today after 18 years the ghosts haunt me still. Over there, on the side of the road leading to the Sabra mosque, lay Mr Nouri, 90 years old, grey-bearded, in pyjamas with a small woollen hat still on his head and a stick by his side. I found him on a pile of garbage, on his back, fly-encrusted eyes staring at the blazing sun. Just up the lane, I came across two women sitting upright with their brains blown out, next to a cooking pot and a dead horse. One of the women appeared to have had her stomach slit open. A few metres away, I discovered the first babies, already black with decomposition, scattered across the road like rubbish. The flies racing between the reeking bodies and between dried blood and the hands of watches still ticking on dead wrists. I had to push aside body parts scattered all over the place to climb the small rampart I clambered. Then there was the pretty girl her blood still running from a hole in her back.
BBC announced that the Israeli Parliamentary Commission which launched an investigation into Sharons role in the attacks found him guilty and Sharon resigned as defense minister in 1983.
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