Sabra and Shatila massacre

NAME: Catherine Wairimu Wahome Manning ID NUMBER: 649598 COURSE: Composition II COURSE CODE: ENG 2206 LECTURER: Milton Obote MEETING PLACE: Room O DATE SUBMITTED: 4 August 2016 WORD COUNT: 1,433 REASERACH QUESTION: How effectively does the film ‘Waltz with Bashir’ depict Israeli involvement in the 16th September 1982 events at ‘Sabra and Shatila’? TABLE OF CONTENTS Tittle Page 1 Table of contents …………………………………………………………………………….. 2 Plan of investigation …………………………………………………………………………. 3 Summary of evidence ………………………………………………………………………. 4-5 Analysis 6-8 Guarding the exits 6 Firing the flares 6-7 Lack of Action to prevent massacre ……………………………………………………7-8 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………. ………….. 8 Works Cited …………………………………………………………………………….. ….. 9 How effectively does the film ‘Waltz with Bashir’ depict Israeli involvement in the 16th September 1982 events at ‘Sabra and Shatila’? PLAN OF INVESTIGATION:…

The demonstration was against Operation Peace of Galilee and demanded an establishment of a commission of inquiry into the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Over 400,000 activists showed up in hopes of removing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The demonstration proved fruitful when the Israeli government established the Kahan Commission. As a result of the Peace Now efforts, The Kahan Commission was formed to investigate the factors leading to the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The commission had found…

troops in seizing territories for future Jewish settlements. Another instance where Sharon defied orders and attacked was during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. However, this ended up being considered his greatest military success, although both of these disregards of orders resulted in increased tension with the Arabs. After this, he turned to focus more on politics until he was appointed defense minister in 1981. The following year in 1982, Sharon launched an invasion of Lebanon, the purpose…

Holocaust and Nakba go hand in hand, and the Israelis cannot be blamed for that. In order to relieve responsibility for their actions, one must consider himself to be the victim of the situation at hand. This mentality is evident in Ari Folman’s film Waltz with Bashir, a film which explores Folman’s experiences as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War. In the film, Folman’s character keeps having repeated nightmares connected to his experiences from the war. He does not remember anything from the…

In the case of Waltz with Bashir, where every war scene is a flashback or memory, soldiers are depicted through the lens of another peer, providing a raw, 1st hand perspective of the experience of an Israeli soldier during the events surrounding the massacre of Sabra and…