The Sabra and Shatila massacre severely undercut respect for America and its influence in the Middle East as well as its moral authority. In the aftermath of the crime the US felt compelled by "guilt" to redeploy the "peacekeeper Marines", who joined the anti-Muslim side in the midst of a brutal civil war and themselves killed countless civilians.
The partially revealed archival record illustrates the magnitude of deception that undermined American efforts to avoid bloodshed. Working with only partial knowledge of the reality on the ground, the US feebly yielded to false arguments and stalling tactics, thus allowing a massacre that was already in progress to proceed.
The White House, the UN Security Council, and the global community must join the above-noted citizen initiatives for belated justice for the victims of this Israeli-organized massacre by demanding the release of all the Israeli records pertaining to the incident. American law, including the US Foreign Assistance Act enacted September 4, 1961, mandates, inter alia, that no assistance will be provided to a government that "engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights including torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the se curity of person." The law stipulates a cutoff of all American aid pending full compliance.
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