The Jerusalem Post published an article by Ariel Ben Solomon headlined "Muslim World Joins Palestinians in Denouncing Sharon."
"Middle East reactions to the death of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon followed the lead of the prompt Palestinian expressions of joy and denunciation on Saturday," the article begins.
"However, official Arab sources remained silent on Sharon’s death," the author of the article cites the tweet of Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.
“It’s a shame that Sharon has gone to his grave without facing justice for his role in Sabra and Shatila and other abuses,” the article cites Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
"The survivors of the Sabra and Shatila massacre likewise showed little sympathy for Sharon’s passing. Israeli troops did not intervene during the bloodshed, which went down as one of the worst atrocities of Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war. Ariel Sharon was defense minister at the time, and many Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila still blame him for the hundreds of killings," the article reads.
Describing the conditions of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the newspaper tells that "many are packed into overcrowded, impoverished “camps” that are more like urban slums of concrete buildings, potholed roads and tangled wire."
"Sabra and Shatila in Beirut are crowded neighborhoods of narrow alleys where pictures of Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas and young men killed in conflicts with Israel cover many walls," the author adds, reporting that Lebanese authorities' fear of altering the sectarian balance that is the basis of the political power system, makes them refuse to naturalize the overwhelmingly Sunni Palestinians. The latter are banned from a wide variety of professions.
The article tells that people on the streets of Tehran codemn Sharon for the Massacre.
The article concludes with citing Iranian lawmaker Hossein Sheikholeslam as saying on Saturday, according to the country’s Press TV: “The crimes that Ariel Sharon committed against the defenseless people of Palestine will never be wiped off the world’s public opinion, and he will always be despised in history.”
