Mark Steyn: The UN is running out of blind eyes to turn

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 04/20/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Parts similar to Steyn's National Post column from today.

[Pokey78]

Ping for the MSPL.

[xm177e2]

yesterday's Telegraph, Terje Roed-Larsen, the "UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process", described the devastation at the refugee camp as "horrific beyond belief".

Update: Terje's backpedalling

[PoisedWoman]

the day before the Red Cross jerks went into Jenin, PBS ran a Frontline special filmed behind terrorist lines in Jenin within the last six weeks. The place was wall-to-wall terrorists, and buildings housed huge chaches of weapons, bins of gunpowder and other explosives, some quite sophisticated. One was added to mortar shells to bring temperature up to 4,000 degrees. If you'd dropped a match in that camp, the whole place would have blown sky high. Apparently the Israelis dropped a match and now the world is complaining about the deaths of the mythical innocents.

[Lady Jag]

This is a Steyn gem, plain and simple.

[Dog Gone]

Jenin surely didn't look like what I thought a refugee camp would look like. There were no tents, no outdoor campfires to stay warm or cook a few beans.

Best I can tell, it wasn't a camp at all. The "refugees" all had apartments just like everyone else on the West Bank.

It looks to me like any other city, except that it's called a "camp" for political purposes.

I wonder if I'm missing something.

[hellinahandcart]

Excellent. I know just the thread to link this to...

[monkeyshine]

Great article! The UN sucks weiners.

[LibertarianLiz]

I wonder if I'm missing something.

I have wondered the same thing about the Jenin "refugee camp". Their housing looked better than most of what I've seen on video from Afghanistan. Jenin is a town, period.

BTW, I had also heard someone on Fox last week point out that Clinton's administration had tried to give a lot of money to Arafat and his goons in order to refurbish and update the "refugee camp" of Jenin. Arafat refused the money (according to the source, whose name escapes me at the moment). He and all of the other terrorist goons want to keep this "camp" exactly as is for political purposes.

[TopQuark]

Excellent piece! Just excellent!

Thanks for the post and the ping, Pokey.

[Right_in_Virginia]

"This is a Steyn gem, plain and simple"

Amen, my friend.

This "Steyn gem" is truth.

[Kermit]

"That's what's "horrific beyond belief": that the UN is complicit in terrorism."

Can I be the first to call on the use of the Bush Doctrine against the UN?

[McGavin999]

BRAVO! You have to admit that Mark Steyn is totally brilliant!

[Amelia]

three generations none of whom had ever lived in the places they're supposed to be refugees from

Great article, Pokey78! At first I thought it was the same as the National Post one, but I think this one is better.

[Travis McGee]

Jenin "Family Day" in happier times.

Just a peaceful wittle town, trying to find its place under the sun, to live in harmony with all the world...

[Brian Allen]

Bump/Ping

[PoisedWoman]

GREAT photo! Thanks.

[joebuck]

"BRAVO! You have to admit that Mark Steyn is totally brilliant!"

I must agree with you. I have been following Steyn for about 6 months now and he consistantly has the best foriegn policy take in the media. He is a treasure and If someone has a bump list for his columns please put me on it.

[michaelt]

I heard Morton Kondrake, during the Fox All-Stars segment of Special Report, say that Martin Indyk (sp?) told him that. Indyk was a US diplomat who was working on the negotiations during the Clinton Administration.

On one hand, its amazing that stuff like that goes on, but on the other....it's Arafat we're talking about here.