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Sabra and Shatila Massacre
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In its initial statements, the Israeli government declared that those critics who regarded the IDF as having responsibility for the events at Sabra and Shatila were guilty of "a blood libel against the Jewish state and its Government." However, as the news of the massacre spread around the world, the controversy grew, and on September 25, 300,000 Israelis — roughly one tenth of the country's then-population — demonstrated in Tel Aviv demanding answers. The protest, known in Israel as the "400,000 protest" (the number of protesters was first exaggerated) was the biggest protest in Israel's history.
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When the autumn rains began to fall at the end of November, congested sewers flooded Sabra and Shatila. The congestion was caused in part by bodies that had been dumped in the sewers. The bodies that had been recovered by the Lebanese Civil Defense had been buries in a mass grave in Shatila. A large mass grave at a golf course nearby, and other mass graves were never to be opened. Prohibited by the Lebanese government and its new president Amin Gemayel, brother of Bashir. Prime Minister Begin said: "Goyim kill goyim and they accuse the Jews".
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Mahmoud Abdallah Kallam displays portraits of murdered residents of Sabra and Shatila in his book. They are now buried in the mass grave behind him. Thanks to local and international efforts, the mass grave is now planted with roses and surrounded by young olive saplings. (Laurie King-Irani)
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The Government and army, he added, did not want to be used ''as an instrument of Israeli policy.'' Throughout Wednesday night, according to people in both Sabra and Shatila, it was quiet. No one felt any overwhelming sense of fear. THURSDAY
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The events started with a silent vigil Queen's University Students' Union to commemorate all those who died at Sabra and Shatila and who continue to die in Palestine. That evening, at 7.30pm the Rodai Mac Corlai Club, Glen Road, Belfast, played host to a public viewing of the film, 'The Accused', followed by a lecture by Professor Kathleen Cavanaugh of the Human Rights Centre, Galway University.
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A longtime student at the Ponevezh Yeshiva had another explanation: "Rabbi [Elazar Menahem Man] got angry at Peres because he acted like a traitor before the goyim after the Sabra and Shatila massacre. As a result, Peres has been a loser ever since."
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