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		The position of the Phalangist leaders, as reflected in various pronouncements of these leaders, was, in general, that no unified and independent Lebanese state could be established without a solution being found to the problem of the Palestinian refugees, who, according to the Phalangists' estimates, numbered half a million people.
		The Prime Minister also said that the Phalangists were behaving properly; their commander had not been injured in the assassination and was in control of his forces; he is a good man and we trust him not to cause any clashes, but there is no assurance regarding other forces.
		On that day the Phalangist officers did not arrive at the forward command post to coordinate operations, but Major-General Drori met with them in the evening and told them generally that their entry into the camps would be from the direction of Shatilla.
	www.arabiyat.com /social1d.htm (13213 words)

	Kahan Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is clear from all the testimony that no explicit question was posed to the Phalangist commanders concerning the rumors or reports which had arrived until then regarding treatment of the civilian population in the camps.
		The Phalangist commanders, for their part, didn't "volunteer" any reports of this type, and this matter was therefore not discussed at all at that meeting.
		According to him, he told the Defense Minister that the Phalangists had carried out their assignment, that they had stopped, and that they were under pressure from the Americans and would leave by 5:00 a.m.
	www.usahm.de /Dokumente/KahanCommission20040.htm (17529 words)

	Kahane Commission - CAABU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is a highly reasonable assumption that had the commanders who gave that reply heard from the Defense Minister or from higher Phalangist commanders a clear and explicit order barring harm to civilians and spelling out the damage this was liable to cause the Phalangists, their reply to these questions would have been different.
		The usefulness of the Phalangists' entry into the camps was wholly disproportionate to the damage their entry could cause if it were uncontrolled.
		It could not be inferred from the Phalangists' orderly military organization that their attitude toward human life and to the non-combatant population had basically changed.
	www.caabu.org /press/documents/kahan-commission-part9.html (1258 words)

	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut (Kahan Commision)
		No other military force aside from the Phalangists was seen by any one of the witnesses in the area of the camps where the massacre was carried out, or at the time of the entrance into or exit from this area.
		There is evidence that some of the Phalangist units who came to the camps wore tags with the letters M.P., and along the route the Phalangists travelled to the camps, road directions containing the letters M.P. were drawn.
		To be sure, Dr. Morris did not say specifically that the armed men who came to the hospital were Phalangists, but he described their uniforms, which bore Arabic inscriptions, and also heard them talking among themselves in Arabic and with someone from the hospital staff in French.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/kahan.html (18138 words)

	Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps 1982 Massacre
		The Phalangists were looking for PLO fighters who, it was feared, had avoided evacuation from Beruit by hiding among the refugees.
		It is our view that responsibility is to be imputed to the minister of defense for having disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance and bloodshed by the Phalangists against the population of the refugee camps, and having failed to take this danger into account when he decided to move the Phalangists into the camps.
		Elie Hobeika, the Phalangist leader directly responsible for carrying out the massacres (and other gruesome acts over the years) became a crucial ally of Syrian subjugation of Lebanon, and had a long career until he was killed in a massive bomb attack at his house in a Beirut suburb in January 2002.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1967to1991_sabra_shatila.php (1091 words)

	Elie Hobeika killer file
		When one of the Phalangists in the camps radios Hobeika to report that he is holding 50 women and children and ask what he should do with them, Hobeika is overheard by an IDF officer to reply, "This is the last time you're going to ask me a question like that.
		However, the Phalangists are allowed to remain in the camps and later the same day are given the go-ahead to "continue action, mopping up the empty camps" and to use bulldozers to demolish buildings.
		The move is opposed by a small faction of the Phalangist militia, leading to a showdown that results in Hobeika being appointed as the overall commander of the Lebanese Forces on 10 May.
	www.moreorless.au.com /killers/hobeika.html (5372 words)

	Why Sharon is a War Criminal (by Dr. Ben Alofs) - Media Monitors Network
		The leaders of the Israeli army, Sharon included, were very well aware of the mood of the Phalangists, shortly after the murder of their leader.
		Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the feelings of the Phalangists towards the Palestinians knew what would happen if they were let into the refugee camps.
		On September 17th it became clear that the ‘Kataeb’ (Phalangists) and/or the militiamen of Saad Haddad (funded and armed by Israel) were slaughtering the civilian population.
	www.mediamonitors.net /drbenalofs1.html (1960 words)

	Lawrence of Cyberia: Tainted By Terror
		The Phalangist answers that "pregnant women will give birth to terrorists." Israeli soldiers who report Phalangist atrocities against civilians to their superiors are ordered not to interfere with what is happening in the camps and not to enter the area.
		While awaiting for orders, the Phalangists are unambiguous about their mission, boasting: "We are going to kill them", and "We are going to fck their mothers and sisters." Eventually, the Phalangist* column departs north along the airport road, and enters Shatila from the south and east.
		During the afternoon, a crowd of 500 refugees sheltering in the Gaza Hospital in Sabra hear that the Phalangists are attacking the hospitals.
	lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com /news/2004/09/tainted_by_terr.html (9262 words)

	Phalangists
		The name Phalangists (Phalange and Phalange party are variations on the same) is both a translation from Arabic and a small distortion, coming from phalanx.
		The Phalangists have shown an unusual amount of pragmatism in dealing with allies.
		1976: The Phalangists support Syrian intervention in the conflict, as they were losing ground to the Muslim troops.
	i-cias.com /e.o/phalangists.htm (491 words)

	Kahan Commision
		In addition, responsibility is to be imputed to the Minister of Defense for not ordering appropriate measures for preventing or reducing the danger of massacre as a condition for the Phalangists' entry into the camps.
		The Phalangists were at all times under Israeli army orders.
		The Israeli head of intelligence commented, "This means that all forces in the area, including the Phalangists, will be under IDF command and will act according to its instructions".
	www.allaboutpalestine.com /kahan_commision.html (387 words)

	Palestine Center - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, A War Criminal
		Although Sharon and Eitan purportedly discussed including Phalangists in the operation, the Commission determined it was not mentioned to Begin.
		Eitan announced, “the whole city is in our hands, … the camps are surrounded, the Phalangists are to go at 11:00-12:00.” Eitan said that Israeli forces surrounded the Sabra and Shatila camps, and that it was agreed the Phalangists would go in at their discretion, after a coordinating session with the Israeli officials.
		Based on the Commission’s conclusions at least seven of nine individuals, including Sharon, should have known of the likelihood of a massacre before the Phalangists’; entry, knew or should have known a massacre was going on, and yet failed to take appropriate steps to protect the civilian population.
	www.palestinecenter.org /cpap/pubs/20010614ib.html (1178 words)

	Sabra & Shatilla, the Kahan Commission and Belgium
		That due care and caution might have changed the outcomes and that officers and officials are held accountable and must to take the professional consequences, if they are not meticulous in performance of their duties.
		It was well known that the Phalangists harbor deep enmity for the Palestinians, viewing them as the source of all the troubles that afflicted Lebanon during the years of the civil war.
		the importance of the decision on the entry of the Phalangists, against the backdrop of the Lebanese situation as it was known to those concerned, required that the decision on having the Phalangists enter the camps be made with the prior approval of the Prime Minister.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/actual/sabra-shatilla (5297 words)

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