Jenin 'massacre' reduced to death toll of 56

Washington Times ^ | 5/01/02 | Paul Martin

[kattracks]

JENIN, West Bank

[DB]

This article is for you...

You were so confused by the facts before... Things a little clearer now?

[kattracks]

You're wrong. I have posted duplicates which have been pulled, just like everyone else.

Please feel free to point out any duplicates I have posted within minutes of the original that have not been pulled.

[Caipirabob]

Massacre of 500 Palestinians in Jenin!

444 GOT BETTER...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I don't know the truth about this particular incident, and I don't care either.

What can I say to reply to someone who says that he does not know the truth, and he does not care what the truth is. At least Pontius Pilate was jesting when he washed his hands of the truth.

[tm22721]

Any chance this will make NPR or the evening news ?

NOT.

BUMP

[Howlin]

No way. Stuff gets pulled all the time.

[Howlin]

Not much, that's for sure.

[not-an-ostrich]

Every other news source till this one listed Israeli soldiers dead as 23.

[mewzilla]

Earth to NBC/MSNBC....

Paging Andrea Mitchell...

[js1138]

Arabs are old-school tribalists, and they would rather kill themselves than be insulted. Israelis and Arabs have a lot more in common than you would believe.

I would believe it. And just as soon as Arab/Muslim governments grant the same level of religious freedom to their citizens as Israel does to its, and as soon as Arab women have the same personal rights as Israeli women -- then I'll consider being neutral in this.

[BlueLancer]

"Arabs are old-school tribalists, and they would rather kill themselves than be insulted."

Then, to quote Dickens:
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

[hellinahandcart]

Yoooooooooooooooooohoo....

[lexington minuteman 1775]

well, son of a gun, you can be sure there will be very little of this in the press, afterall the impression is those mean bad Israelies went in there and slaughtered hundreds and THAT is what people will remember so that little retraction on page 10 of the Lifestyles section of most major metros will be seen by all five people who read that section and the myth will continue that Israel is bad and Yasser Arafat is good. That killing civilians by blowing up kids in a pizza parlor is good and IDF forces shooting armed gunemen is bad.Is that anyway to run a war? Well it seems to me Israel better figgure out a better form of Public relations to get their side of the story out.

[maica]

I find it ironic that the Jewish elite in this country supported the Muslim lies in Bosnia and Kosovo and then the Muslims tried to use the same type of lies against Israel in Jenin. Go figure!

The American Jewish 'elite' is very conflicted by this new reality.

What America was sold in Kosovo was a total media drumbeat - Remember the stories of mass graves and the thousands of 'refugees?'

We worry about the poppy fields on Afghanistan but ignore the wholesalers and transporters of heroin - the KLA. Every government and media bureau knew the KLA was bad. Did it ever get published outside of a Mark Steyn-type column? No! Why? Our media wanted to paint the poor Kosovars sympathetically.

[nravoter]

I find it ironic that the Jewish elite in this country supported the Muslim lies in Bosnia and Kosovo and then the Muslims tried to use the same type of lies against Israel in Jenin. Go figure!

Even more ironic is the historical relationship between the Jews and Serbs. I just got back from Bosnia a few months ago. One of the officers in my unit, a First Lieutenant, is Jewish, and told me that the Serbs had shielded the Jews from the Nazis in WWII, and the Jews had recognized the fact in Jerusalem (something similar to the tribute paid to Oskar Schindler, I believe).

Does anybody have any knowledge of this? I had never heard it before, but the officer I mentioned was pretty certain of it, and it does make sense in light of the fact that the Nazis did use the Croats in the region to beat up on the Serbs (the Serbs being traditional allies of the Russians, and Slavic to boot, which bought them no favor with the Germans).

[Mixer]

They were lying from the begining and they are lying about sentencing those four guys.
As soon as we turn ur heads those guys will be free and organizing terror again.

[carton253]

The Palestinians lie with no consequence. Every lie is always believed... usually in 6" headlines. The "massacre" is out in the public domain, it won't be overtaken with the truth... Which is standard operating procedure. At most peace talks, Arafat agrees to conditions, his press is good, then he returns to the West Bank and takes it all back. The taking back part is never publicized, and Israel looks like the aggressor.

The UN probe into Jenin was nothing but a bad joke. The UN has never lifted a finger to condemn Palestinian homicide bombing or to call th PLO on their lies. Arafat is always the aggrieved party, the Palestian people are always the victims, and Israel always the aggressor.