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	Qibya massacre
		The Qibya massacre was a military action in October 1953 carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.
		The military action as Qibya was carried out by two Israeli units, a paratroop company and Unit 101 under the command of Ariel Sharon (current Prime Minister of Israel).
		It led to the death of over 50 Palestinian Arabs and the demolition of most houses in Qibya[?], a village in the northwestern West Bank (Samaria), which was then under Jordanian control.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/qi/Qibya_operation.html (1008 words)

	Unit 101
		Unit 101 was an Israeli special operations unit founded and led by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953.
		It has drawn much criticism due to deaths of innocent civilians, in particular the Qibya operation, which left almost 70 civilians dead.
		The widely condemned attack on Qibya made the Israeli leadership forbid the IDF to directly target innocent civilians in the future.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/un/Unit_101.html (591 words)

	Qibya massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The operation at Qibya was carried out by two Israeli units: a paratroop company and Unit 101, a special forces unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that conducted retaliatory raids against Arab marauders.
		On October 12, 1953, an unarmed Jewish mother and her two children were killed in a raid by Jordanian infiltrators in the Israeli town of Yehud.
		The raid at Qibya took place on the evening of October 14, 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qibya_massacre (1178 words)

	The Jerusalem Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The attack on Qibya was ostensibly in retaliation for an attack that had occurred two days earlier inside the Green Line in which a woman and two children had been killed by a grenade.
		According to the official history of the Israeli paratroopers, of which Sharon's Unit 101 was a subsidiary, "the operation at Qibya was to be distinguished from other operations by its purposes and its effects.
		Sharon described that operation as a "great success." He has never been inspired enough by the values that he claims to be defending to even adopt the conventional hypocritical Western expressions of regret for deliberate ('collateral') murder of innocent civilians.
	www.thejerusalemfund.org /images/opinions.php?ID=5 (940 words)

	A lifetime credo
		On 13 October 1953 Prime Minister David Ben Gurion met with Minister of Security Yitzhak Lavon and Moshe Dayan, head of operations in the office of the chief of staff, to discuss retaliation for the murder of a Jewish woman and her two children in a grenade attack on her home by a Palestinian infiltrator.
		Qibya was mooted as a suitable target and, apparently, there was a ready-for-use plan calling for the demolition of 50 out of the 280 homes in the village.
		The metamorphosis of the operation command order he attributes to the military culture of the Palmach, the underground paramilitary organisation that fathered most of Israel’s military elite.
	www.aloufok.net /article.php3?id_article=570 (2331 words)

	POICA-Israel illegally Re delineate the boundaries of the Palestinian Villages! The case of Qibya and Budrus villages
		Qibya and Budus are small Palestinian villages located approximately 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Ramallah city.
		It is bordered by Al Qibya village from the northeast, Ni'ilin village from the southeast and the Armistice line from the west.
		The total length of the Wall in Qibya village is 1.7 km; out of which, 0.4 km (400 meters length) penetrating inside Qibya village while the remaining 1.3 km Wall is constructed along the Armistices line (the Green Line).
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=677 (1828 words)

	Massacre in Qibya
		When the village had been cleared of resistance, Israeli soldiers ordered the civilains to leave their homes and stated that they would be demolished; they then laid explosives around many of the houses and blew them up.
		However, "the operational orders, from CO Central Command to the units involved, dated October 13, had explicitly ordered 'destruction and maximum killing'" (Righteous Victims, p.
		This claim is highly suspect, given the nature of the operational orders, from CO Central Command.
	cosmos.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/event.php?eid=113 (1249 words)

	Sharon's Record : Short Version. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In August of 1953 Sharon, commanded the notorious 101 unit of IDF terrorists, in an attack on the refugee camp of El-Bureig, south of Gaza, where (according to an Israeli history of the 101 unit) 50 refugees were massacred.
		In October of 1953, Sharon commanded the notorious 101 unit of IDF terrorists, in an attack on the Jordanian village of Qibya.
		Operating without uniforms, the group, nicknamed "the avengers", met Palestinian resistance attacks with institutional terror.
	thewebfairy.com /nerdcities/Palestine/sharon.htm (4122 words)

	Muslimedia.com
		On October 14, inhabitants of the West bank village of Qibya, some 15 miles northwest of Jerusalem and a mile and a half from the green line, held a commemorative gathering in the playground of the village’s high school.
		The attack on Qibya was authorized by prime minister David Ben-Gurion (who was on vacation at the time) and by acting prime minister Moshe Sharrett, and was planned by defence minister Pin Has Lavon, the chief of general staff Mordechai Maklet, and chief of operations General Moshe Dayan.
		The Qibya massacre exposed Israel as a terrorist entity and its armed forces as nothing short of a cabal of bloodthirsty thugs, criminals and animals.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/special01/arien-record.htm (1354 words)

	23: Sharon
		The Qibya massacre unleashed against Israel a storm of international protest of unprecedented severity in the country's short history.
		On 24 November the Security Council passed a resolution condemning Israel for the Qibya operation and calling on it to refrain from such operations in future.
		The official history of the Israeli paratroopers boasts of the Qibya massacre that 'it washed away the stain' of previous unsuccessful raids.
	www.workersaction.org.uk /23Articles/23Sharon.htm (1781 words)

	JUST VISION > Interviews > Itamar Shapira
		It began paramilitary and political operations in 1964, and assumed the leadership of the PLO in 1968.
		Operation Defensive Shield Refers to an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) incursion into several cities (and their nearby villages and camps) in the West Bank, lasted from March 29th until April 21st of 2002 and represented the largest military operation in the West Bank by the Israeli army since the War of 1967.
		Qibya Refers to a military operation against the Palestinian village of Qibya in the West Bank on October 14, 1953 by Unit 101, led by Ariel Sharon.
	www.justvision.org /interview/itamar_shapira.php (18222 words)

	Sabbah’s Blog » Blog Archive » Qibya Massacre: History of Terrorists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Every fall in Qibya during the olive harvesting season, the memory of the attack is kept alive in a mourning ceremony.
		The Qibya massacre once again exposed the nature of Israel as a colonial-settler state based on the violent displacement of the native population.
		Qibya Massacre: History of Terrorists This year’s 14-15th October, marks the 53rd anniversary of the massacre in the Palestinian village - Qibya.
	sabbah.biz /mt/archives/2006/10/14/qibya-massacre-history-of-terrorists (3821 words)

	Observer \| From butcher to 'Lion' to Prime Minister of Israel
		In the early 1950s, though the Israelis won the war of 1948 and established their state, the kingdom of Jordan occupied the so-called 'West Bank' and sponsored Palestinian raids into Israel itself in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were killed and wounded.
		The operation against Qibya, where a violent Palestinian partisan group was thought to be based, was designed to punish and chastise.
		Another alleged operation involved an ambush of women who were crossing Israel's border to get water from a village near Jerusalem.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4130534-102275,00.html (1521 words)

	Sharon's Rise in the Military
		He says that Sharon proposed a ââ¦limited raid against the al-Burg refugee campâ¦When he described the details of the operation to his soldiers, one of themâ¦observed that the obvious objective of the raid was to kill as many civilians as possible.â In the end, the raid killed 15 civilians, most of them women and children.
		Sharon then found international notoriety for his raid on Qibya, in the Jordanian-controlled West Bank in 1953.
		A Palestinian from Qibya had apparently infiltrated Israel and murdered a woman and her two young children.
	www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/article_249.shtml (757 words)

	Sharon and the Second Intifada
		This operationâs stated goal was to âwipe out terrorist networks.â The actual operation involved the near-total destruction of the Palestinian governmental and civilian infrastructure.
		One was the virtual imprisonment of Yasir Arafat in his compound, the Muqata, in the city of Ramallah.
		The second notorious outcome of Operation Defensive Shield was the battle in the Jenin refugee camp.
	www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/article_256.shtml (591 words)

	Edna’s Essays: The Many Faces of Terrorism
		The subsequent official “explanation” (the brainchild of then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion) for this operation was that it was undertaken by frustrated and angry inhabitants of Jewish border towns, who were losing their patience with Arab incursions.
		This specific raid, we were told, was a reprisal for the killing of a Jewish woman and her two children from the nearby town of Ya’hud.
		Before Qibya, in April 1948, a month before proclamation of the state of Israel, Jewish forces perpetrated the massacre of Deir Yassin in which 254 men, women and children were murdered.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0897/9708072.html (1223 words)

	#Entifada - Who is Sharon?
		In 1953, he founded and led the "101" special commando unit which carried out retaliatory operations.
		The massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on October 14, 1953, was perhaps the most notorious.
		As minister of defense in 1982, Sharon orchestrated Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a military operation that killed tens of thousands of civilians.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/entifada/sharon/whoissharon.html (1132 words)

	Sinai Campaign 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As described in Background of the Sinai Campaign, the continued blockade of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, combined with the increased fedayeen attacks and the bellicosity of recent Arab statements, prompted Israel, with the backing of Britain and France, to attack Egypt on October 29, 1956.
		The Sinai Campaign of 1956 (Operation Kadesh) was a swift, sweeping operation of 100 hours, under the leadership of then Chief of the General Staff, Moshe Dayan, with the result that the entire Sinai peninsula fell into Israeli hands, at a cost of 231 soldiers killed.
		In a new plan, adopted on October 25, it was decided to launch the operation with a paratroop landing, and to hold the Armored Corps back until October 31.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1948to1967_sinai_result.php (904 words)

	ISR issue 17 \| Ariel Sharon: War Criminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They included "Operation Peace for Galilee" to crush the PLO, as well as the Syrian presence in Lebanon, and "Operation Big Pines" to set up a "responsible" government in Lebanon.
		With plans for Operations Peace in Galilee and Big Pines laid out, and with approval from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig obtained, Israel looked for an excuse to invade Lebanon.
		The instigating act was the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador to Britain--never mind that his attackers were from the Abu Nidal-led Palestine National Liberation Movement, which organized in opposition to the PLO.
	www.isreview.org /issues/17/Ariel_Sharon.shtml (3284 words)

	Ariel Sharon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The unit was known for targeting civilians as well as Arab soldiers, notably in the widely condemned Qibya operation in the fall of 1953, in which 69 Palestinian civilians, some of them children, were killed by Sharon's troops in a reprisal attack on their West Bank village.
		In the 1956 Suez War (the British "Operation Musketeer"), Sharon commanded the 202nd Brigade, and was responsible for taking ground east of the Sinai's Mitla Pass and eventually taking the pass itself.
		Palestinians allege that the al-Aqsa Intifada (September 2000-February 2005) was sparked by a visit by Sharon and an escort of several hundred policemen to the Temple Mount complex, site of the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Ariel_Shinerman.htm (5118 words)

	Signs of the Times Fri 06th of Jan, 2006
		The length of his operation - seven hours - itself carries risks and the damage is likely to be severe.
		When Sharon began his operation "Defensive Shield", the UN Security Council, with the active participation and support of the United States, demanded an immediate end to Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank.
		Israel's stated motive for its "Operation Peace for Galilee" invasion of Lebanon was to bring peace to frontline Israeli communities in Northern Galilee.
	signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs20060106.htm (17745 words)

	The Soldiers Who Fired at Qana Did Not Care About the Massacre
		These are the statements made by five soldiers, two of them officers, who participated in the firing at Qana.
		Professor Asa Kasher and other military and morality commentators are now invited to carry out a moral evaluation of the “Grapes of Wrath” operation in general and of Captain S.’s battery in particular.
		They are invited to express their opinion about a place where the disregard for human lives begins with not checking the temperature and ignoring the maps and tell us where it all will end.
	wrmea.com /backissues/0796/9607021.htm (2019 words)

	THE HANDSTAND
		The task: attack Qibya, occupy it temporarily, demolish homes and kill as many as possible in order to compel inhabitants to flee their homes...
		The task: invade Qibya, occupy it, kill as many as possible and do as much damage as possible to property...
		This is the political and military school of thought through which Sharon, who would later boast of the deterrent power of Qibya and similar operations, rose.
	www.thehandstand.org /archive/october2003/articles/sharon.htm (6641 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The deadline for the oil companies to convert their operations to joint ventures in which the state oil company PDVSA has the controlling stake expired at midnight on Dec. 31, 2005.
		Worth mentioning, and widely condemned incident is that of Qibya operation in 1953, in which more than 60 Palestinian civilians were killed in a reprisal attack on their village.
		This was after archeologists claimed that extensive building operations at the site were destroying priceless antiquities and a few months before the election.
	www.kashmirwatch.com /jan06articles.htm (13520 words)

	Ariel Sharon - Birthday, occupation and personality
		Unit 101 undertook a series of retaliatory raids against Palestinians and neighboring Arab states that helped bolster Israeli morale and fortify its deterrent image.
		However, the unit was also known for targeting civilians as well as Arab soldiers, notably in the widely condemned Qibya operation in the fall of 1953, in which 69 Palestinian civilians, half of which were women and children, were killed by Sharon's troops in a reprisal attack on their West Bank village.
		In the documentary "Israel and the Arabs: 50 Year War" Ariel Sharon recalls what happened after the raid, which was heavily condemned by many countries in the West, including the U.S.: I was summoned to see Ben-Gurion.
	www.mysticgames.com /EditCelebs.cfm?ID=31364 (673 words)

	Neo Anti-Semitism in Today's Italy - Sergio I. Minerbi
		Naturally, once again, the hypothesis of an operation conducted by big international financial groups, with accomplices from former elements of the American secret services, as well as a support action led by the Israeli secret services, are hypotheses which are not mutually exclusive.
		In order to contemplate the greater picture, it is necessary to remember that today's Italy has also witnessed many reactions to the unconditional support of the Palestinians.
		Following an increase of tension between Israel and Jordan, in October 1953 Israel undertook a retaliatory operation at Qibya, then an Arab village under Jordanian rule.
	www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-minerbi-f03.htm (9909 words)

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