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Robert Fisk's assessment of Ariel Sharon, written in January 2006 as Sharon lay stricken and his political career ended. Against George Bush's description of him as a man of peace, Fisk argues that Sharon was a ruthless commander answerable for one of the century's worst war crimes, and that Sabra and Chatila remain a stain on the conscience of the Israeli state. He writes as a witness: he had shaken Sharon's hand in Beirut, watched him review the Phalangist militia at Karantina weeks after the massacre, and climbed over the corpses in Chatila himself on 18 September 1982 with reporters from the Washington Post and Norwegian television. It was Sharon, Fisk insists, who sent the Phalange into the camps.
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