They Wonder Why We Support Israel

[hamster of smite]

While I will admit that wasn't the best example, I feel Israel was more then "indirectly" responsible for the masacres.

The Phallanges militias (among others groups) at the time were being supplied and trained by Israel to combat the PLO during the civil war in Lebanon.

The militias who did the dirty work had been invited to enter the camps to clear out PLO fighters by Israeli commanders, it should be pretty easy to guess who one of the commanders was.

During the 3 days that the massacres were taking place Israel army units surronded the camps and turned back civilians who were trying to escape. As well as resupplying the militias through the course of the whole affair. I believe they even lent a bulldozer to destroy buildings in the camps.

In a very real sense Israeli military units had been providing support to the Phallanges militiamen.

In response to your last point Israel has probably killed a hell of a lot more people in between the "official" wars then during them, and the US has been providing huge ammounts of aid for Israel for over 30 years. In the last decade or so half of the aid Israel recieves is "Forgein Military Financing" which is where we help Israel buy weapons from us, that is when we aren't givin' em away, hot off the press! as we say.