"The verbatim transcripts reveal that the Israelis misled American diplomats about events in Beirut and bullied them into accepting the spurious claim that thousands of “terrorists” were in the camps. Most troubling, when the United States was in a position to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel that could have ended the atrocities, it failed to do so. As a result, Phalange militiamen were able to murder Palestinian civilians, whom America had pledged to protect just weeks earlier."

New York Times op-ed illustration: A Preventable Massacre

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/opinion/a-preventable-massacre.html?pagewanted=1&ref=opinion

A Preventable Massacre

By SETH ANZISKA

Published: September 16, 2012