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He said the thing that angered him most about the summation by Gould was that the lawyer seemed to suggest that he had exaggerated his account of his war record. Said Halevy of Gould, "I felt ashamed for him to see how some- one who pretends to be fighting this case on behalf of the Jewish people would launch this kind of personal attack on an Israeli boy who fought for his country." Yet, Halevy, the ultimate Is- raeli insider who knew everyone of consequence in the country's poli- tical and military elites, who was rumored to have been in the Mos- sad, and who had acted for a time as an advisor to Shimon Peres, seemed to harbor some ambi- guous feelings about the country he loved. In a letter to Richard Duncan, Time's chief of cor- respondents,- written in May 1984, _ Halevy deplored the "vindication of Arik Sharon" along with "other signs of mysticism, fascism, and radicalism" in Israel and said that he had ceased to be "part of this country and its people." Halevy requested in the letter to Duncan that he be reassigned by Time outside Israel because he felt that he had lost his objectivi- ty due to intense personal involve- ment with the fate of Israel. Last week Time announced that Halevy would be reassigned to Time's Washington bureau after he takes a short vacation. Both Sharon and Halevy ap- peared at times during the trial to be idealists, witkeach impelled by sharply differing visions of what Israel should be. Yet both men also revealed themselves as stand- ing upon feet of clay. Sharon came across as Sharon a brusque, dominating and in- tensely ambitious powerhouse of a man who has clearly convinced himself that he is destined to run Israel and to mold the country in his image. While Sharon was suc- cessful in proving that Timc had erred in reporting that he had dis- cussed revenge with the Gemayels ; the day before the massacres at Sabra and Shatilla, he did nothing - to dispel the conclusion of the Kahan Commission that he ought to have known that widespread killings of civilians would take place if he ordered into the camps the grief stricken and infuriated cohort of Bashir Gemayel. Halevy's credibility was com- promised, even for those sym- pathetic to his ideals, by his evi- dent failure as a journalist. Ha- levy was revealed as a reporter willing to publish an assertion that the Defense Minister of Israel had given the green light 11 for a massacre based, he later ad- mitted, on little more than "my analysis based on 42 years of liv- I ing in Israel." Halevy's evident willingness to cut corners in his reporting, to write that Appendix B contained Sharon's supposed discussion of revenge, without any conclusive. evidence that the discussion was really in the document fatally I damaged his case. In the end. desp:;A: the verdict in favor of I imf there is little doubt that it was Ariel Sharon A who benefitted the most from the , trial. Sharon was successful in achieving his aims because it was he who set the agenda. Sharon knew from the day in February 1983 when he first filed suit that Time's paragraph was in- correct — that there was nothing about him discussing revenge with Phalangists in Appendix or any other document in the hands of the Kahan Commission. Thus Sharon was able to focus the courtroom proceedings almost entirely on the truth or falsity of Time's reporting and to ensure from the beginning that the trial, would not become an inquest in- to the wisdom of his decision to send the Phalangists into the camps or, for that matter, to launch the Israel Defense Force on an open-ended expedition into Lebanon that has led to the deaths of more than 600 Israeli soldiers and only now appears drawing toward a close. Two years ago next week, when the Kahan Commission reporte that he was indirectly responsible for the murder of an estimated 600-800 civilians in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, many in Israel and abroad were quick to write the political obituary of Ariel Sharon. But Sharon's im- pressive performance in a cour- troom 6,000 miles from home has put the finishing touches on an even more impressive overall com- eback, and today it is obvious that this self-described 'old soldier' is -.going to play a leading role in de- termining the future course of thej country for which he had foughfl so long and so passionately. MEDIA MONITOR Fallacy In The Law BY BERL FALBAUM Special to The Jewish News The fallacy of the U.S. Supreme Court decision which established a malice doctrine for libel cases involving public officials was never more evident than in the suit filed by former Israeli Gen- eral Ariel Sharon against Time magazine. In that case, the jury last week decided that the story involving Sharon was defamatory and in- accurate but it did not find Tim guilty of malice as required under the court decision and thus Sha- ron lost his libel case. He lost despite the fact that the jury, in a very unusual statement, pointed out that the Time reporter