Assignment 7 round 2 Hannah Freibert

While I did, in fact, do this blog on time *cue applause*, technology and I have a long set rivalry. On multiple occasions, my assignments have been known to vanish into thin, cyber space air. Technology hates me. Or the world hates me and this is just a ripple. Or whatever. Regardless, the standings are: blogger.com- 1, Hannah- 0 (which can also been translated into infinite campus language as a humble 0%).

I will now in the most non-fluid and unsmooth way transition to the original prompt... yeah that. September 16th. This dismal day in 1982 marks the beginning of a two day massacre in Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut. The Israeli military allowed the a right-wing Christian militiamen group, linked to the Phalange Party, to enter the two camps. In the wake of the Lebanese civil war the Phalangists stormed Sabra and Shatila and began shooting hundreds of Palestinians, including elderly men, women and children. At least 800 civilians were affected by the massacre, raping, killing, and dismembering as the pillage took place. 

Investigations launched in the years following revealed misleading communications between Israeli officers the the United States. As a result, when the U.S. was in a position to possibly prevent these tragedies, it failed to do so. Transitively, Phalange militiamen were able to murder hundreds of innocent Palestinians, whom the U.S. had pledged to protect just weeks earlier. The grueling details of this massacre resurfaced in the light of its 30th anniversary, when the NYT called it "The Preventable Massacre".