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I guess it depends on how strictly you define a massacre. Instead of rounding up Palestinians and killing them one by one out in the open, Israel has been operating a brutal occupation. Destroying homes, infrastructure, as well as enforcing harsh curfews which don't allow people to work or go to school. They're killing them slowly, agonizingly.
For someone who denies the very existence of a Palestinian people, you use the word "racist" an awful lot.
I don't paint the world with such broad strokes like you do. It was Sharon's responsibility to look at each situation in its uniqueness and make decisions accordingly. This means rethinking the idea to send in a group of militiamen who's leader had just been assassinated. The Phalangists had been the subject of some horrible acts by Palestinian people; any honest observer would have an easy time describing tensions as extremely high. It's not racist, it's called using your head. I'm not a violent person, but if someone kills a member of my family it's probably not a good idea to stick me in the same room as the murderer and lock the door.
The point is, the evidence shows that it was such a blatantly ignorant choice that it just screams there must have been more going on. Sharon very deliberately sent in the enemies of those people to handle the "mop up" as he so elegantly put it. There's more than just "poor judgement" evident here. Use your head, don't apply broad generalizations of people. Look at each case individually. You're not giving this incident the respect and attention it deserves.
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