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Comparable but larger protests against the 1982 Lebanon invasion and its aftermath, particularly against Israel's passive role in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, also resulted in few concrete changes.
Brent E. Sasley: A Pessimistic Take on the Likely Outcomes of the Protests in Israel Brent E. Sasley 2011
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On the back of this card are words from former Israeli president Ariel Sharon, known as the butcher of Sabra and Shatila (refugee camps in Lebanon where he led a massacre of the people) where he talks about making a pastrami sandwich of the Palestinian people, riddling their lands with Jewish settlements until no one will be able to imagine a whole Palestine.
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians onceagain.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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And Sabra and Shatila are just ONE of the most famous case of abuse of Human Rights perpetrated by the Israeli Military Forces.
Obama: U.S. not giving Israel green light to attack Iran 2009
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I saw them watching the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians on the morning of 18 September (the last day of the slaughter) by their vicious Lebanese militia allies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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UPDATE: True to form and right on cue, the National Post's Jonathan Kay suggests more worthy recipients, including a genocidal South American President, a South-East Asian President presently running a chain of concentration camps, a former Israeli statesman who presided over the Sabra and Shatila slaughter, and an American general who wants to toss more troops into the Afghanisnam quagmire.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The tale told is of Folman's experiences in Lebanon around the time of the terrible Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres.
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Take the Sabra and Shatila camps where the Israeli forces let in militia men to massacre people i the 1980s, take the consistent policy of independent journalists being targeted and even murdered by Israeli snipers, take the bombing of schools.
Archive 2009-01-01 Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Israel bused dozens of Christian militiamen to the southern suburbs of West Beirut then unleashed the militiamen — many of them from villages that, several years earlier, had been the scene of massacres by Palestinians — into the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
Because They Were Just Tourists, You See « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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To everybody whom advocates a blind allegiance with Israel: Sabra and Shatila or 'How to let a bunch of wackos kill women and children, while doing nothing to save their lives, and then expect that you are still regarded as a Moral Standard ...'
Obama: U.S. not giving Israel green light to attack Iran 2009
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