Former PM Sharon accused of ordering the Sabra and Shatila massacres in op-ed on website of PA news agency
Headline: "The ‘Shatila’ that nobody knows about"
"A number of weeks ago, I read that Palestinian author Akram Musallam, a son of the village of Talfit south of Nablus, had published his fourth book, titled A Girl from Shatila (2019), through the Dar Al-Ahlia [publishing house] in Jordan…
I am sitting in the backseat of a share taxi carrying seven passengers, and to my right are two young people in their late teens… I know the meaning of holding a book in a public taxi or even at a station… The young person sitting next to me brings his ear close to the mouth of the young person sitting beside him [who] says to him: 'Look at this idiot who comes and reads in the car!' And the second one answers: ‘He can't find anything to do!'
I put the book aside and began to tell them what I know and what I have read about the 'Sabra and Shatila' massacre, about which I had already written on its anniversary…
The massacre was committed on orders of the butcher Ariel Sharon – [Israeli] occupation army minister [of defense] at the time – personally (sic., Christian Phalangists committed the massacre; Israel was not involved in it), and took place in a frightening silence; and not one of those responsible for it has been tried to this day, 27 years after it was committed."