Photos Of Jenin Tell The Truth

Israel National News ^ | 4/20/02

[truthandlife]

The UN Security Council accepted a unanimous compromise resolution to dispatch a fact-finding committee to Jenin to "evaluate the damage" caused by the IDF offensive there. Syria and Tunisia had originally demanded that the resolution make reference to "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians, and to demand an international investigation. The U.S. threatened to veto such a resolution, and the above compromise was reached. Israel says it has nothing to hide and will accept a UN delegation - as long as it does not include UN officials Terje Larsen or Mary Robinson, both known to have a strong anti-Israel bias. UN sources say the committee is likely to consist only of one person. Prime Minister Sharon told the Cabinet today that he agreed to the UN resolution "because alternative proposals were much worse."

To put in perspective what some media are calling the "destruction of Jenin" - even former U.S. President Jimmy Carter used that language in an op-ed in The New York Times today - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Website provides aerial photographs of Jenin showing the minuscule area of the city actually affected by the fighting. The photos can be seen at http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ll60.

National Union party leader MK Benny Elon, after hearing Terje Larsen so strongly condemn Israel for what happened in Jenin, said, "There was no attempt to be objective, no interest in viewing the situation in its proper context. Israel [is suffering from] the international community's moral blindness regarding Palestinian terror. One example of this is last week's UN decision supporting 'armed struggle,' providing a boost to terrorists everywhere."

Elon, until recently Minister of Tourism, feels that Israel should not cooperate with the UN mission: "The world prefers to condemn us regardless of the facts. We try playing by their rules and it rarely helps us. Maybe the time has come to stop being so cooperative." Elon feels that although the international media are also biased, Israel should take its case to them, as "they have greater incentive to publicize the evidence that proves Jenin had become a terrorist fortress and that the IDF operation was conducted in a manner designed to reduce civilian casualties."

[Diogenesis]

"Israel says it has nothing to hide "

The good guys dont hide.

[jigsaw]

THANK YOU for posting this!

I've suspected all along that only a small protion of Jenin was effected and the photos linked above demonstrate that.

Damn the ^#$*)^@!# bias press (again)!!!!!!

[Tauzero]

Koresh's home was also miniscule.

[texson66]

Those who hide terrorists suffer the consequences!!!!

[ghost of nixon]

I bet Khanduhar is not looking too pretty right now, either.

[Gorest Gump]

Those pictures look like Hiroshima.

Clearly, you have never seen pictures of Hiroshima. I think the IDF has been remarkably restrained throughout their history. If the Palestinians don't like destruction, they should stop strapping bombs to their children.

[aristotleman]

That clear area is an area of severe fighting, destroyed by booby-traps and bulldozers. Have you ever been in a battle? I have, and that's what it looks like. Have you seen pictures of Belgrade in 1999? Or of Dresden in 1945? Ask your self why the IDF didn't carpet bomb or tank-shell Jenin instead. Ask your self what those "innocent" civilians were doing there after having been issued a warning to leave the camp. Were they helping their terrorist kin, perhaps? And where are these "hundreds" of dead civilians anyway?

[OldFriend]

Approximately 100 dwellings demolished of the thousand in Jenin.

[Publius6961]

Having been here less than a week, I am not surprised that you are not up to speed.
Ever seen pictures of London? Dresden? Ploesti? Berlin?

Stick around and be educated.

[AmericaUnited]

Are trying to get on the Leno show! I'll vote for ya! Very funny indeed!

[jpl]

You really don't know very much about war do you?

[Gaston]

Those pictures look like Hiroshima

Hiroshima??? It looks more like a nice new central plaza to me.

It doesn't even compare with the WTC site.

Are you sure you knew what FreeRepublic was when you signed up a week ago?

[michigander]

This undated aerial view of the Jenin refugee camp, where some of the fiercest fighting took place between Israelis and Palestinians,
was released by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Saturday, April 20, 2002. (AP Photo/HO, Israeli Defense Force)



An aerial view of the Jenin refugee camp, the scene of eight days of intense fighting, in the northern West
Bank Monday April 22, 2002. The United Nations issued a resolution that calls for a fact-finding mission
to look into Israel's military offensive against Palesinian militants at the camp. Israel reluctantly agreed
to go along with the resolution, but its cooperation with the committee will not be unconditional. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

[Selara]

Those pictures look like Hiroshima. I can't believe my eyes. Ground pictures will soon reveal that 90% of the building were destroyed. That clear area is where the IDF bulldozed. "Terrorism" is defined as attacking innocent civilians. This was definitely "terrorism" state sponsered.

Hmmm, and Palestinians express shock and outrage when their propensity for exaggeration and fabrication are commented on.

Innocent civilians are not shooting at and throwing grenades at the military.

[McCloud-Strife]

An entire three square blocks leveled. much worse than Hiroshima or Dreseden where several 10's of thousands+ were incinerated.

Oh goodness, the shock.. the horror the SARCASM.

90% of buildings destroyed look more like this

[Moose4]

Those pictures look like Hiroshima. I can't believe my eyes.

Hiroshima? Good Lord, man. That bulldozed area is roughly 100m x 100m--that's one HUNDRETH of one square kilometer. That's not a whole lot bigger than the area at the base of a stadium--a football field and all the sidelines.

When Little Boy went off over Hiroshima it flattened four full square km or more--over FOUR HUNDRED TIMES that area, or probably the entire area covered in that top picture (the city of Jenin) and then some.

Terrorism? Hardly. Try "war" instead. Slaughter of innocent civilians? Tell me, don't you think the IDF could've just slung endless waves of F-15s, F-16s, and Apaches at the Jenin camp and turned it into a square mile of rubble, killing thousands, if they'd wanted to? But they didn't, did they? They went in on the ground, putting their own soldiers at risk, to minimize civilian casualties. And considering that the Pallies were booby-trapping their own houses, their own streets, their own infrastructure, their own dead, and quite possibly their own children, I'd say the IDF did a damn good job to keep the Palestinian death toll to 100 or so.

If you want to see what the Israelis could have done, had they really wanted to, go to the library and dig up some pictures of Dresden, Berlin, or Tokyo from 1945. They could have easily done that to Jenin, in miniature, with their overwhelming air power. So please, save your "terrorism" whines for Yassir Arafat and his legions of homicide bombers.

I really don't like quoting Sir Arthur Harris, but I think his most famous quote pretty much sums up the West Bank the past few weeks: They have sown the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind.

}:-)4

[McCloud-Strife]