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Jenin: the bloody truth
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,178-273694,00.html ^ | April 21, 2002 | Marie Colvin

Posted on 04/21/2002 10:28:29 AM PDT by RWCon

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To: Feenian
As far as Arafat being the big part of the problem your point is notworthy. I can agree with that. To say that Sharon is the same lets say that he is for the sake of Argument.

Sharon is prime minister because of Arafat. Sharon wouldn't have stood a chance of winning any election if Arafat hadn't rejected peace and turned to violence in order to become more populare among the palestinians.

What it comes down to is that the Palestinians are the problem. They don't want peace.

I heard an interesting quote from Arafat at the time. He said that he would "rather be killed by the Jews than by his own people". He was affraid the his people would kill him if he made peace with Isreal. The Palestinians kill leaders that they don't like. They don't vote them out of office. The Palestinians kill Palestinian reporters that publish things that they don't want to hear. They don't just stop buying their papers. They insist on threat of death that they be lied too.

Obviously they don't want peace. They cannot govern themselves. They must be governed.

If they ever did suceed in killing the Jews and gaining Palestine they would imediately be subjegated by another Arab state.

The Palestinians are infinitely better off under Isreali occutation. At least under Isreali occupation they somtimes have the semblence of civil rights. In fact , many Palestinians have Isreali citizenship. Under any other Arab state (including one of their own making ) they would be brutally repressed and have virtually no rights.

121 posted on 04/21/2002 10:02:05 PM PDT by CHQmacer
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To: Leisler
Mullet? Why do you solly the name of such a cool hair dew by associating it with this guy?
122 posted on 04/21/2002 10:39:12 PM PDT by Stavka2
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To: TomB
Thanks. Looks more like urban renewal to me. It is never okay when innocents get killed, but the newschannels tried to convince us that Israel almost nuked the whole West Bank and killed half the population.
125 posted on 04/22/2002 2:23:40 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: Stavka2
I am sorry, I ment the fish, not the haircut.
126 posted on 04/22/2002 3:50:40 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: section9
Feel better now?

;=)

127 posted on 04/22/2002 4:11:16 AM PDT by TomB
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To: knighthawk; section9; Feenian
I see that Feenian has completely ignored the pictures of Jenin.
128 posted on 04/22/2002 4:14:24 AM PDT by TomB
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To: Feenian
You know, I was about to apologize.

Don't lie to me. You weren't about to apologize, brownshirt. You can't escape your sympathies for a gang of murderers, and I won't let you.

I mistook you for another poster who DID express outrageous views and called for the killing of a million Arabs.

And how was I to know that? You've been making so many fatuous charges on this board, it was easy for me to believe that you were charging me with supporting genocide. Let's see, I believe that you were the one who posted this howler to the board....

No, the count the Israelis use is false. Many hundreds of people were removed alive by trucks and "disappeared." The number, if these are included, is over 2000.

All you are doing, ALL that you are doing, is peddling Palestinian charges that are not true. Look at the photographic evidence of the overhead shots of Jenin. Where is the massive destruction that you and the other Sturmabteilungen wailed about? What happened? Poor Robert Fisk got his story wrong from the getgo? Where is the proof that those crafty Yidlock carted away 2000 people? Where did they "disappear" to? Where are the "mass graves"?

There are none, and you know it. The fact is, it was a tough battle in which the IDF troops had to fight house to house against an entrenched enemy who was able to use the terrain to his advantage. By and large, the members of the IDF conducted themselves honorably and well. The Palestinians gave a pretty good account of themselves as well. But these stories about a massacre were lies from the beginning.

And the thing is, you probably know, deep down, that they are lies. But that won't stop you from peddling them anyway.

I assumed he was responding. My error. Just the same, after your last loving post, I think I will just ignore you from now on.

As I wrote above, you can't escape your own lies and half-truths. You may want to ignore me, but that is no substitute for a coherent argument backed up by facts. Which you don't have. At all. And never did. You can't just post regurgitated Pallie agitprop as if it is Gospel.

Although I must say that you probably have an excuse to ignore me. I mean, you and your friends have to devote so much time to solving the "Zionist Question", among other things.....

Have fun at "Camp" this summer.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

129 posted on 04/22/2002 4:27:17 AM PDT by section9
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To: TomB
Feel better now?

;=)

Having fun is the byproduct of good, juicy rhetoric.

Getcher Red Meat here!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

130 posted on 04/22/2002 4:30:45 AM PDT by section9
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To: section9; Jethro Tull
I notice Jethro has been awfully quiet.

What say you, JT, how about these pictures?

131 posted on 04/22/2002 4:41:49 AM PDT by TomB
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To: RWCon
Walked around with "an open mind", did he? Sure wouldn't know it by this stilted piece.

"Israelis - mean, vicious, cold-blooded, violators of international law; Palestinians - victims".

What crap.

It's always tragic when civilians get caught in the crossfire between two warring camps. Trouble is, the Pallies bit off more than they could chew and got their butts waxed. Want to vent at someone? Take it out on Arafat and other Palestinian "leaders" who find it oh-so-f**king-noble to die for the cause and take as many civilians with them as possible.

132 posted on 04/22/2002 4:42:35 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: RWCon
He joined the crowd. Soldiers yelled at him to take off his shirt, then his trousers. He clung to his bag of medicine as he tried to unbuckle his belt, and he was slow. The soldiers shot him, friends say.

In a culture where lying and hyperbole is a legitimate political weapon, it would take more than "... friends say." to even remotely consider any description of an incident factual.
Like the helpless "palestinian" "boy" who survived 9 days in the rubble.

133 posted on 04/22/2002 5:29:39 AM PDT by Publius6961
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To: Jethro Tull
I say the same thing you said when that innocent Palestine kid was shot by the IDF while cowering behind his father. You remember that photo, right?

So you are saying that the pictures are fake? Do you have any proof? Forgive me if I don't take your word for this, but your credibility around here after this jenin "massacre" story has been exposed as false is nil.

So tell me, as the days go by and even the Eurotrash press starts to backpedal, are you still insisting that there was a massacre?

We are still waiting for your proof.

Anyway, here is a link to the debunking of the picture of which you spoke.

135 posted on 04/22/2002 8:58:08 AM PDT by TomB
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To: CHQmacer
PLO kills anyone who might tell the truth.
136 posted on 04/22/2002 9:06:22 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Feenian
The people have been radicalized as in Ireland. I visited my godson in Galway some years ago and his father, a college professor, showed me where innocent people had once been hanged by the Engish because they spoke gaelic or went to a Catholic Mass. The English wanted to destroy their entire culture and own the isle

Just for your information, there is no similarity whatsoever between Ireland and the West Bank. There is no "Palestinian" culture, language or religion to destroy. The people in the West Bank are Arabs and mostly Muslim and the Israelis do not suppress Arab culture, the Arabic language or the Muslim religion.

The concept of a "Palestinian" Arab nation was invented by Yasser Arafat in 1964. It had never existed before, unlike Ireland. It is interesting that the "Palestinians" call themselves by a Latin name (Palestine), derived from Hebrew (Peleshet). There is no Arab name they can call themselves because no such Arab nation ever existed. There has never been an Arab state with its capital in Jersualem.

There is no difference in culture, religion, language or ethnicity between a "Palestinian" and a Jordanian. The only difference is to whom they swear allegance.

139 posted on 04/22/2002 10:31:39 AM PDT by Inyokern
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To: CHQmacer
Arafat is a liar and the father of liars.
140 posted on 04/22/2002 10:33:41 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy
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