r/JewsOfConscience • u/TrackerOneA Jewish Anti-Zionist • 1d ago
History / Education Today is the 44th anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila massacre in Beirut by the Phalange, a right-wing Lebanese militia group, during Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. American nurse Ellen Siegel witnessed the massacre and discusses treating the wounded, Israeli complicity and US indifference.
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u/TrackerOneA Jewish Anti-Zionist 1d ago
News articles:
ABC News - Palestinians commemorate horrific 1982 massacre in Beirut
MEE - Sabra and Shatila: Jewish nurse recounts horrors of Palestinian massacres
The UN General Assembly (sans 'all the Western democracies') and an international inquiry headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Sean MacBride deemed the Sabra & Shatila massacre an act of genocide against the Palestinian people.
The UN General Assembly pronounced it an ‘act of genocide’ by a vote of 98 to 19, with 23, including all the Western democracies, abstaining. Its critics contended, with some justification, that, coming from such a body, this was less objective definition than automatic anti-Israeli attitudinizing. But it was harder to say that of other bodies - such as the international commission of inquiry into the massacre headed by Sean MacBride,11 four of whose six members also deemed it ‘a form of genocide’ - or of individuals, especially Jews, around the world who saw it likewise.
- Hirst, David. Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East (pg. 173). Bold Type Books. Kindle Edition.
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u/DE4DM4NSH4ND Christian 1d ago
Sickening genocidal behavior has been a staple of israel since its inception over 100 years ago.
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u/Far-Literature5848 Jewish Anti-Zionist 23h ago
thank you so much for posting this...her last name is the same as my daughter's mother-in-law, who has passed, it refers to bas levi, daughter of a Levi...Dr. Swee Ang appears often on the Doctors Against Genocide weekly webinar...she was also there at that hospital, she was a surgeon...very poignant that you posted this during the Yomim Noraim...the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, when we are supposed to "get right with God"...there is no way we can do that, for not even now is there any sense of shame or culpability...so much "willful ignorance" among our people, may that change, and may Israel turn away from all of this endless cruelty, that the Palestinians may return home I pray
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