Shatilla

From Germany, the Mosaic Ensemble, winners of the Siemans award, with Engel, will perform pieces by Palestinian composer Samir Ouda Tamimi, including "Shatilla" and "Our Brothers II" as well as pieces by new German composers.

ISRAELITY 2009

Yitzhak Kahan, who led the Sabra and Shatilla probe, was the sitting president of the Supreme Court in 1982, as was Shimon Agranat when he led the inquiry that brought about the collapse of the Israeli government after the 1973 war.

Investigation or Whitewash? 2010

The stories of his various campaigns from Shabra and Shatilla to Sinai which had frightened me and offended me when I lived in the U.S.

Religious People Just Can't Catch a Break Yisrael Campbell 2010

The stories of his various campaigns from Shabra and Shatilla to Sinai which had frightened me and offended me when I lived in the U.S.

Yisrael Campbell: Religious People Just Can't Catch a Break 2010

But Folman is adamant in insisting that there are no easy comparisons to be made between the Nazi murder of the Jews and the massacre at Sabra and Shatilla.

Sheerly Avni: Doomed To Repeat 2009

The company had a point: Waltz With Bashir, a graphic and violent series of recollections of the 1982 war in Lebanon, told almost entirely from the point of view of Israeli soldiers, culminates in bloody live footage of the aftermath of the infamous Sabra and Shatilla refugee camp massacres in which thousands of Palestinian men, women and children were murdered by Christian militia with Israeli troops stationed directly outside the camps.

Sheerly Avni: Doomed To Repeat 2009

The last Israeli military investigation to result in serious reprimand of Israeli soldiers and officers was the 1983 Kahan Commission which found that then Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, failed to prevent the Sabra and Shatilla massacres of hundreds of Palestinians.

Noura Erakat: Paving New Paths to Accountability 2009

I knew, going in, that the film had to do with the filmmaker, Ari Folman, and his inability to remember his experiences as a 19-year-old soldier during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and, in particular, at the time of the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camp massacre.

Bradley Burston: Waltz with Bashir, Gaza, and the Post-Moral World 2009

However, Folman does single out Ariel Sharon, the Israeli defense minister at the time, who was found by his own government, through the Kahan commission, to "bear personal responsibility" for the Sabra and Shatilla massacre.

Wajahat Ali: Israel's Waltz with Injustice 2009

Who remembers Israel's flattening of parts of the Palestinian city of Jenin, or the US destruction in Fallujah, Iraq, or the Shatilla and Sabra massacres?

Eric Margolis: While Gaza Burns, the World Watches 2009