Figure 1.--The shameful Phalangest/Israeli attack on the Plestinians known as the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian Massacre (1982) has been widely examined. Swept under the table is Shi'ia attacks on the very same camps (1985). Israel at lkeast invesigatre the attack. There has never been an investiufation of the Muslim attack (1985). Any attempt to do that in Lebanon would hver resulted in Shi'ia attacks. The United Nations was only iterested in investigating Civil War atricities if it useful in villifying Israel. The image here shows the situation during anothr Shi'ia attack, his one in 1987. The AP press caption read, "Berut Lebanin , April 7 AP -- Reightened Mohters: Frghtened Palestiniian women, carrying their children in their arms, leave the Palestinian refugee camp of Catilla Tuesday upon the deployment of Syrian commandos in four key positions around the shattown. Moslem militants beseiging Chatilla allowed for the first time in five months some of the camp's women to go out to buy food." A reder doubts te veracity of the caption. So click on the image to see the actual newspaper clipping.

After the Israelis withdrew from Beirut, the situation got a lot more complicated and what has become known as the the War of the Camps developed. Thhe situation wa not only complcated by Lebabon's diversed religious mix (Christian, Muslim/Sunni-Shi'ia, and Druze mix), This is not a problem in increaingly tolerant Western society. It is Islamic society which intoleranbt of religious diversity and seemingly becoming icresungly intolerant. Aded to the major Lebanese divisions are many subgroups as well as the influx of mostly Sunni Palestinian refugees with left-wing secular orientation. And Syria occupying most of Lebanon, further complicated the situation. Syria waa a largely Sunni country, but the Assads coontrolled the Government and the Army of minority Alawite regime. The Alwite were situated towad the Shi'ia in the Muslim spectrum. The refugee camps were primarily for thr Palestinians, but as a result of the Civil War, there were many Lebanese in the camps by the 1980s. But the Shite Amal Movement and the Syrains saw the Plestinian camps as a threat. The Shia Amal militia aailed the Palestinian camps in Beirut. While the Israeli supported on the camps is given great attention, the Shi'ia Amal attacks are basicvally ignored. The Lebanese Civil War is commonly characteized as being a Muslim versus Christian conflict. Actually it was a much more complicated, multifaceted conflict, especially the war of the camps. There was a much violence between Christians and Muslims as there was inter-factional violence between Muslim groups, if not more. There was conflict between Nuslims of the same school such as Shi'ia grops (Amal and Hezbolah). And while the Druze were essebtially a Muslim group, thet are seen as heretical by many Muslims. The Fruze cameinto conflict with Amal abd Chrustian militias,. but formed allinses with some Palestinians. The Christians also were not united. There was fighting between the Lebanese Forces (LF), a primarily Christian Maronite militia led by Samir Geagea, and Michel Aoun's Christian-controlled faction of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

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