Brutal, yes. Massacre, no

The Guardian - Observer ^ | April 21, 2002 | Peter Beaumont

[Deb]

Yes, I watched. Incredible, wasn't it?

My favorite part was the speech by the Arab professor from Florida who O'Reilly got fired for harboring, supporting and bringing Islamic radicals into the country. He pretty much validated everything he was accused of and this guy was the head of a university engineering department teaching in this country even after his brother was indicted for terrorism!!

Only in America, Baby.

[veronica]

He is as Left as they come. Kaufman likes neither Sharon nor Netenyahu. I assume you agree with this Leftie? :) All Lefties?

[Shermy]

bump

[Publius6961]

One thing, however, is beyond question: that the soldiers of Israel carried out an act of ferocious destruction, unparallelled in Israel's short history, against an area of civilian concentration where Palestinian fighters were based.

This "ferocious destruction" pales by comparison to the Black September months in Jordan, when it was Muslim vs. Muslim terrorists.
Am I the only one who remembers?
Was a Norwegian retard wandering through the devastation mouthing inanities?
Was not the provocation then deemed completely justified in the response?

[Joe Boucher]

This may sound trite, but are you really a scratch golfer or is that wishful thinking?

[Canuck1]

In 1998, when the Serbs destroyed a village known to be a center of Albanian terrorist activities in Kosovo they were threatened by the US with air strikes. So why isn't the US threatening to bomb Israel today?

Who pays, wins.

[FITZ]

Yes ---and there is no Arab outrage over the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Kurds at the hands of the Muslim Iraqis. It's too hard to feel any sympathy for people who are killed when they are all too willing to kill themselves if they can destroy the lives of a few Jews at the same time.

[Canuck1]

Not to mention the razing of scores of Muslim Kurdish villages by Muslim Turks.

[TomB]

Looks like some cracks are forming in the Eurotrash Press.

[veronica]

Now that The Guardian is backing away from the 'massacre' bit, can Israel sue them for slander?

[Travis McGee]

I have no idea. About 40 steps above my paygrade!

[B4Ranch]

Others had been collected from their temporary mass grave made by the doctors in a yard outside the hospital.

They were all waiting for reburial in a common grave. By their very weight of numbers laid out on the ground - almost 30 on this afternoon - they suggested themselves as victims of a massacre.

Any idea what the difference is between the ugly words of 'mass grave' and the relaxing words 'common grave' is?

[B4Ranch]

Uniformed soldiers, ie. Israeli fighters camp together, terrorists ie. Muslim fighters in civilian clothes camp with civilians that way they can moan about their civilian deaths when things don't go their way.

Massacres, slaughters, total wipe outs are all terms of war. These UN control lovers had better get use to it.

[FITZ]

I wonder what made them think they could go on and on with the suicide bombings of innocent people without something being done to them to make them stop?

[B4Ranch]

Hoping the UN would stand beside them, I guess.

[McGavin999]

This reporter needs to testify at the hearing that's being held by the UN.

[Sabramerican]

Here

[Travis McGee]

I saw the aerial photos on that thread, THANKS!

[McGavin999]

They make it sound as though the entire city was leveled. I have to tell you Travis, what the media is doing is downright freightening.

[Travis McGee]

I hope the pictures get to FOX and the rest.