Belgium’s highest court dismissed war crimes charges against Ariel Sharon. The court dismissed the complaint against the Israeli prime minister Wednesday, ruling that Belgium no longer has a legal basis to charge him. The case charging Sharon with complicity in a 1982 massacre in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, carried out by Lebanese Christian militias, brought ties between Israel and Belgium to a nadir.
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