Blood Libel: The Inside Story of General Ariel Sharon's History-Making Suit Against Time Magazine

by Uri Dan

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671605542
• ISBN13: 9780671605544
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

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Taking a stand against lies and libel in the media

This book reveals the inside story of Ariel Sharon's groundbreaking law suit against Time magazine for the lies that they printed against him, accusing him of baring responsibility for the raid by Christian Phalangists into the Palestinian bases of Sabra and Shatilla. It was a case where Sharon took up not only his own cause but also the cause of Israel and the Jewish people, for many years unjustly and cruelly maligned by the world media. Sharon took legal action against Time for their lies and was victorious. We certainly need to use this precedent again, to take action against some of the media in the world today in their massive hate and blood libel campaign against Israel and the Jewish people. Of course one cannot take legal action against every vicious slur and lie against Israel in the world media, because they appear every day in thousands of sources. But I would certainly recommend a few suits against some of the more vicious anti-Israel media organizations to prove that we will and can fight back against the anti-Israel media industry. Uri Dan was by Sharon's side throughout the entire sage from the funeral of cruelly murdered Christian Lebanese patriot Bashir Gemayel, where he was alleged to have discussed avenging Gemayel's foul murder with his father Sheik Pierre Gemayel. Lebanon had long been a base for the PLO's terror network. The PLO had set up a state within a state in Lebanon, effectively occupying another people's land. They murdered tens of thousands of Christian Lebanese, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, together with the Syrians and Lebanese Muslims. The author does not in this volume mention the 1976 massacre at Damour, where hundreds of Christian Lebanese men, women and children were butchered by PLO terrorists. But many more innocents were murdered in this massacre, than in the raids by the Phalangists into Sabra and Shatilla. Of the 460 Muslims killed in Sabra and Shatilla, only 35 were women and children. 425 where men, terrorist combatants, 300 of them Palestinians and 100 of them Muslim Lebanese, the remainder being terrorist volunteers such as Iranians, Syrians and Algerians. Far less innocents died here then in Damour. And yet Damour is forgotten, while Sabra and Shatilla are forever hyped up to this day. In essence the raids into Sabra and Shatilla by the Lebanese Christians were a kind of long awaited retribution for the years of living and being subjected to genocide, under the ruthless yolk of the PLO. In the typical fashion of the left wing media in painting those who fight back against Marxist and Islamic terror as the villains, lawyer for Time, Thomas Barr accused the Gemayels and the Christian Phlangists of being "Fascists" and "murderers" and "a gang of murderers, rapists, who destroyed a way of life, who massacred civilian populations almost routinely". This in fact more accurately describes the media darlings the PLO. The Christian Phalange were defending their way of life and

Sharon v. Time Magazine. The Inside Story.

Any book concerning Ariel Sharon is likely to be controversial and there will undoubtedly be contradictory opinions about this study. However, from a personal perspective I approached this book with an open mind despite having already heard many of the contentious claims surrounding the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon. Nonetheless, I wished to hear as much evidence as possible in order to arrive at an individual opinion in this matter. Hence I was extremely eager and interested in what this book had to reveal. I was indeed impressed with both the scope, content and detail of this presentation.The book begins with a concise description of events during the early 1980s and the then Israeli General Ariel Sharon presenting US Defence Secretary Casper Weinberger and US Secretary of State Alexander Haig with facts and figures concerning the PLO terrorist involvement in Lebanon/Northern Israel. Facts cited as including the PLO "state within a state" in Lebanon and how Syria, Libya, Iraq, the Soviet Union and her East-European satellites were assisting the PLO with important military and political support. Reports presented also included evidence showing how the PLO were perpetrating atrocities against civilian targets including women and children. Following the subsequent outbreak of war, this introduction then proceeds into the background of the events surrounding the Sabra and Shatila incident, where on the eve of September 16 1982, Lebanese Phalangist units entered these two neighbourhoods, that are described as having long been known as terrorist bases and training centres for International terrorist entities such as Baader-Meinhof (Germany) and Red Brigades (Italy).The book continues to reveal how on the night of September 17, Sharon learned that something had "gone wrong" in Sabra and Shatila and ordered his Chief of Staff to get the forces out immediately. The reader is then shown how late on the afternoon of September 18, Sharon and the Israeli leadership were informed of the terrible massacre in the camps, where even women and children had slaughtered by the Phalangists. The book cites that no Israeli commanders or soldiers accompanied the Phalangists into the camps and no early intelligence report hinting at a massacre had been received or passed to Ariel Sharon. The rest of course is history with most readers having been aware of one story or another relating to the horrors that followed.This extremely readable study covers one such story and is described as the only inside account of the precedent-setting trial in which then General Ariel Sharon sued a bastion of the US press, Time Magazine, for a blood libel concerning his alleged involvement in the horrific massacre and of which he was subsequently acquitted.The book describes the trial in considerable detail with the added relevance of the writer (Sharon's press attache), having been alongside Sharon from the very beginning of events in Lebanon and throughout the process which even