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…tical road that ran between Beirut and Damascus. We would link up in Beirut with the main Maronite Christian force, the Phalangists, whom we had been supporting and training for several years. When that plan was presented to Begin’s cabinet at the end of 1981, however, most minis...

… in military intelligence, though neither he nor anyone else I asked was sure if they were true. But it seemed that the Phalangists had been sent into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to think that, in Amos Yaron’s or Amir Dori’s place, I’d hav...

… it was Gemayel’s men who had actually done the killing. But it said that the Israel1 commanders’ decision to allow the Phalangists into the refugee camps “was taken without consideration of the danger — which the makers and executors of the decision were obligated to foresee as...

… it was Gemayel’s men who had actually done the killing. But it said that the Israel1 commanders’ decision to allow the Phalangists into the refugee camps “was taken without consideration of the danger — which the makers and executors of the decision were obligated to foresee as...

…ke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side of Lebanon’s capital city, they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. I remember a mix of feelings at the time. Partly, amazement that through sheer determination and political maneuvering, Arik seemed to have pulled...

they linked up with Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists.

…hters that he and Arik still wanted out of Beirut. The only note that struck me as odd was a general agreement that the Phalangists had not been carrying their load of the fighting during the war. One comment in particular stuck with me, though I didn’t take it as referring to th...

…tical road that ran between Beirut and Damascus. We would link up in Beirut with the main Maronite Christian force, the Phalangists, whom we had been supporting and training for several years. When that plan was presented to Begin’s cabinet at the end of 1981, however, most minis...

…hters that he and Arik still wanted out of Beirut. The only note that struck me as odd was a general agreement that the Phalangists had not been carrying their load of the fighting during the war. One comment in particular stuck with me, though I didn’t take it as referring to th...

… the massacre. Determined to shift the blame and responsibility elsewhere, they kept driving home the point that it was Phalangists, not Israelis, who had carried out the killings. That was true. But it could not erase the failures of judgment and control on our part. We were the...

… as an exercise in self-delusion. There was also the matter of Arik’s vision of a “new” Lebanon under Bashir Gemayel’s Phalangists. Unlike the other generals in the kirya, I’d never actually met any of our “Lebanese Christian allies”. Yet a few weeks after taking up my new post,...