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The similarities between the Deir Yassin massacre and the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, in 1982—the blowing up of homes, the murdering of emerging civilians, the taking aside and shooting of individuals, the trucking of victims through streets in a “victory parade” are striking.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre was also carried out without official Israeli approval. The terrorist gangs in that case were bands of Christian militias allied with Israel.
But they were operating with the strategic support and approval of Israeli troops standing by on the outskirts of the camps, as with the Haganah outside Deir Yassin. And as at Deir Yassin, Israeli forces would subsequently attempt to deny responsibility for the massacre.
One other similarity: the architect of the 1982 Lebanon war that culminated in the atrocities of the Sabra and Shatila massacre was Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, although he was far from the scene at the time. The architect of the Deir Yassin massacre, although he was far from the scene at the time, was the Irgun commander—Menahem Begin. “I am convinced, too, that our officers and men wished to avoid a single unnecessary casualty in the Dir Yassin battle,” Begin would later write in his memoir, “The Revolt: Story of the Irgun.”
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