Declassified Documents Shed Light on a 1982 Massacre - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
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Thirty years ago, a #massacre occurred in Beirut’s #Sabra and #Shatila refugee camps. The following declassified documents reveal conversations between high-level American and Israeli officials before, during and after the event. These English-language documents were released by the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem earlier this year
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Sept. 17, 1982. This document is a verbatim transcript of a meeting that took place while the massacre was in progress. Those in attendance included America’s Middle East envoy, Morris Draper; Israel’s defense minister, Ariel Sharon; Israel’s foreign minister, Yitzhak Shamir; and several other important Israeli officials. Key passages can be found on pages 37-41 in this document viewer. p. 11