Posted on 04/24/2002 7:07:22 AM PDT by Brytani
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Mardawi spoke enthusiastically about Israel's decision to send in infantry: "It was like hunting ... like being given a prize."
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who surrendered to Israeli forces in Jenin described the battle as "a very hard fight" in which both sides took on casualties, but he said he didn't see "tens of people" killed by the Israeli army.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
http://www.etherzone.com/2002/jenin.shtml
Aerial photographs of the Jenin camp, with zooms on the combat area. Puts it in perspective like no other pics i've seen.
Look at these pictures, and try to tell me it was a massacre.
What a pathetic, horrible world we live in, where the UN needs to send a 'team to investigate the massacre' over something like this, while thousands are actually massacred for real around the world, while no one gives a damn.
I mean, we landed on the moon a LONG LONG TIME AGO, yet most people still don't have the intelligence to see that they are being brainwashed to hate jews by endless propeganda, which is more commonly known as the international media.
I don't get it.
He surrendered.
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Amen! But then again what do we expect from an organization that virtually ignores Muslim extremism and murder and genocide in places like Sudan, Sierra Leone and Indonesia while calling Zionism racism. Pathetic & horrible are excellent terms.
Allah your base belong to Jooos ....
Asked about the allegations of a massacre, Mardawi said, "By my own standard, what happened there was a massacre. But if you are asking, 'Did I see tens of people killed?' Frankly, no. In my group, we were in an area with no other people. Three fighters with me were killed. Later when we started to move from place to place, we saw destroyed houses and could smell bodies."
Bulldozing houses does not a massacre make and no amount of lies told by Palestinians will change this. Where are the mass graves even the UN can't find? Where are the thousands of bodies nobody seems to be able to find (that is until Arafat has the chance to plant them). Fighters killed, that's a part of war. Don't play the game unless you're willing to die. Fighters being killed does not a massacre make.
Of course there was a massacre, 3oh7. We believe you. Your whole world would crumble if there wasn't.
check the links above and below.
sounds like a salaried individual.
eg, from the 'wisdom' of 3/7:
bon apetit !
This was a stupid military tactic! Sharon should do as we did in Afghanistan. Declare a war on terrorists and proclaim that you are either with us or against us. Then go out and bomb the hell out of any resistance we encounter. Human lives are too dear to sacrifice to the Crazy Mo followers. Israel should do as we do, not as we say!
That depends on whether bodies are found in the rubble of the bulldozed houses.
They will do a Linda Tripp on him.
Yeah, CNN is putting this story here, but don't hold your breath while waiting to see this on tv.
No wonder, this Palestinian was amazed to see the IDF forces advancing on foot; it never occurs to those Palestinian murderers to attempt to limit the killing of noncombatants. Prayers for the brave Israeli soldiers.
BTW, if the Pali quoted here is released, I wonder how long it will be before he is hung upside down in the street and eviscerted like some of his former brothers in arms.
Unfortunately, you do. Crying damn shame is what it is.
It does seem, thought, that part of the world is beginning to wake-up from the hypnotic haze.
This is one reason I tend not to believe the massacre stories. (The other reason is that the Palestinians have lied too often and too easily in the past.)
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Muslim fanatics are massacreing Christians all around the world, and are absolutely salivating at the prospect of massacreing as many Jews as possible.
My Christian tongue will hold back what I *really* want to say about the UN and its pathetic silence in the face of real atrocity. The most we can get is a "tsk-tsk, this is too bad" about the killing of Christians and Jews, while they scream in horror at the sight of armed Jews defending themselves. What an absolute, unmitigated disgrace the UN has become.
Highly doubtful...it would disrupt their own personal agenda.
Now tell that to the left wing anti-American peacenicks. That should really ruin their day. All that protesting done in vain. *sigh*
knews hound
LOL
Personally, I think Israel has been wrong in some of her actions, yet the anti-Israel bias in the UN, with human rights groups, supporters of Muslim states, Europe, etc etc is so clear I tend to believe what Israel says first, before anyone else. Just nice to have confirmation when I'm right in my beliefs.
Of course, the Israelis mostly were not killed, and besides that they succeeded in taking out the Palestinians in an allegedly "impossible" manner. The PA has no doubt taken note, Mr. "I'm not dead, just in an Israeli prison" Mardawi's bravado notwithstanding.
And this hypocritical organization makes the claim they are for the rights of all people and fair. Yea, and I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
The Arabs get creamed each and every time the go up against the Israelis which is why the Arabs displaced the Palies and keep 'em mean!
By not allowing any of the relief monies in ( Araft controls with no accountability whatsoever ALL funds) to help the poor palies that Arabs have created a gang og homeless, hungry, angry people who will sell their kids to Arafat for much needed money.
The next Arab enagement will be a "massacre" as was the Gulf War as was the Afghanistan war as well.
See:
Khaled al-`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973), that among the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948 was "the call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them...Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business..." (Part 1, pp. 386-387). See:
Harry C. Stebbens, who was in an official position in the British Mandatory Government in Palestine in 1947-48, wrote in the London Evening Standard (Friday, 10 January, 1969):
"Long before the end of the British mandate, between January and April, 48, practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men and women and all of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of every possible effort to assure them of their safety if they stayed.
"They all left for one or more of the following reasons:
The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N. partition resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls and they feared Jewish retaliation.
Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate ended in which the street of all the cities would run with blood.
The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews.
see
Beyond accountability January 9, 2002
By Martin Himel
National Post
Yasser Arafat controls millions of dollars in a secret budget, which is used to fund 'a special economy based on corruption and patronage.' Despite demands, the Palestinian leader refuses to have his spending scrutinized
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The controversy over the Palestinian arms ship underlines a situation critics have long complained of: Yasser Arafat's total control over millions of dollars in a budget that has little accountability or transparency.
He uses the money to reward loyal lieutenants and pay for private projects. Opponents say he could easily siphon off the money for an arms shipment with few people knowing.
Though Mr. Arafat denies any knowledge of the weapons shipment on board the Karine-A last weekend, Israeli leaders say it is only the latest example of Mr. Arafat's spending priorities.
"Arafat chooses to buy long-range Katyusha rockets instead of investing in children's education," Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, charged on Sunday, pointing toward the ship he called "this Trojan Horse at sea."
Matters are unlikely to change as long as Mr. Arafat has unfettered access to the million-dollar secret stash, made up of money siphoned off from local tax revenues or donations from Arab states and the European Union. It exists in parallel to the official budget, US$1-billion allocated for government services and monitored by members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, the Palestinian parliament.
"The [secret budget] is the political economy of corruption," says Adel Samara, an economist and a controversial figure in the West Bank.
"It is a special economy based on corruption and patronage."
"He has robbed the general government budget of US$200-million," adds Abdel Jawad Saleh, a former agriculture minister and the representative for Ramallah in the PLC.
For years, PLC members have been trying to make Mr. Arafat publish accounts of his secret budget.
The UN is the punchline to the joke that is humanity.
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