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804 pages
First published January 1, 1990
How could Israel, the nation which of all others understood the horror of mass murder, have allowed the Palestinians [...] to have been murdered?
The Israelis portrayed the [Kahan commission's 1993 report] as powerful evidence that their democracy still shone like a beacon over the dictatorships of other Middle Eastern states. [...] But the Kahan commission report was a flawed document. [...] There were repeated references in the commission's final report to Palestinian 'terrorists' in the [Sabra and Chatila] camps but the judges provided not a single piece of evidence to substantiate the allegation that these 'terrorists' existed. Indeed, the only real terrorists in the camps - the Christian militiamen sent there by the Israelis - were respectfully described by the Israelis as Phalangists or soldiers.