Posted on 05/03/2002 4:49:24 PM PDT by truthandlife
A man pretending to be a corpse (to the left of the yellow arrow) climbs onto a green blanket. He "came back to life" after the "pallbearers" dropped him. (IDF)
In a press briefing Thursday, IDF Intelligence Officer Colonel Miri Eisen screened a four minute tape of a staged Palestinian funeral photographed by an Israeli drone flying over Jenin on Monday, April 28. Pallbearers repeatedly tried to carry a green blanket wrapped around a man who pretended to be dead, but kept falling out of the blanket. The funeral took place between the area that was destroyed in the Jenin refugee camp and the nearby cemetery.
The Palestinians, Col. Eisen said, sought "to show as many casualties as possible were buried inside Jenin. They tried to falsify evidence in preparation for the committee by executing a fake [funeral] ceremony, carrying the 'body' and filming the entire process."
The film was screened to foreign reporters and later shown on Israeli television, causing considerable amusement among the TV commentators and journalists, since the "corpse" kept tumbling out of the blanket. "One time he falls off the stretcher when he is already in a crowd," Col. Eisen narrated. "When he came back to life in the middle of the crowd, the crowd breaks up because they didn't know that it wasn't really a corpse." Israel Radio reported that many reporters laughed at the point in the tape that the "corpse" seemed to "rise from the dead," causing the people around him to flee in terror.
"The video, said Col. Eisen, "constitutes only one filmed proof of what has been happening in Jenin in the last weeks," and the IDF intended to produce additional documentation in the coming days. Palestinians have tried to create various types of false evidence to exaggerate what transpired in Jenin and support false claims of atrocities.
Israeli intelligence sources reported that Palestinians have been exhuming corpses from nearby cemeteries and burying them in a mass grave of those who fought the Israelis in Jenin. Even so, even the Palestinians have reported no more than 52 recovered bodies, in sharp contrast to earlier claims, by Palestinian minister Saeb Erekat and others, of more than 500 dead. IDF senior officials reported earlier this week on Israeli television that animal carcasses were also hauled to the refugee camp to create the "stench of death."
If we could realiably count on the UN to have a fair hearing, it could actually be a good thing to expose this crap. But the idiots of the world will either dismiss this type of stuff or claim it must really be bad for them if they have to resort to faking funerals and digging up dead bodies. Oh the poor Palestinians.
"Bring you your dead"
"I'm not dead yet!"
Globe And Mail, Wednesday, May 1, 2002.
Israel's enemies must be delighted that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his government slammed the door yesterday on the United Nations fact-finding inquiry into events last month at the West Bank refugee camp in Jenin. Israel's friends, however, should be appalled. True, Mr. Sharon has spent much of his long career blocking any hope of a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Nonetheless, his defiance of the UN on the hugely controversial question of what did -- and did not -- happen at Jenin sets a new benchmark.
Perhaps, as some Palestinians have claimed, hundreds of civilians died in the Israeli attack, buried under the rubble of bulldozed houses. But perhaps they did not. For its part, Israel has put the Palestinian death toll at around 50, including no more than a handful of civilians.
Incomplete, disparate evidence from human-rights organizations such as Amnesty International suggests that while Israeli troops may have committed significant breaches of international law -- meaning war crimes -- there was no wholesale massacre in Jenin, as Palestinians have charged.
But the way things sit now, the truth about Jenin will likely stay buried forever. And in its place, powerful myths will arise. For most Palestinians, Mr. Sharon's name is synonymous with the mass slaughter 20 years ago at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut. By denying the UN team access to Jenin, except on terms that would render the investigation meaningless, the Israeli government is dispatching the unmistakable signal that it does, indeed, have something to hide. Soon, if it has not happened already, Jenin will within the Arab world become the story of Sabra and Shatila revisited.
Israel's hostility toward the UN is not hard to understand, given the UN's long history of anti-Israel resolutions and conferences, and the highly selective prejudices of such bodies as its human-rights commission. But the decision to investigate events at Jenin came from the UN Security Council, in a 15-0 vote whose backers included the United States, Israel's staunchest ally.
Israel has voiced at least six objections to the UN team, whose mission may now be aborted. One is concern that its findings might be used to prosecute Israeli soldiers for war crimes, even though UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan gave Mr. Sharon a written undertaking that it was "understood that no harmful consequences will result to those persons interviewed by the team."
But Israel also wants to determine which documents the team would be allowed to look at, and which witnesses it would be permitted to question. Any inquiry conducted on such lines would be mocked worldwide, and Israel knows it.
There should be no argument with Israel's broad position that any examination into the deaths and wide-scale destruction in Jenin must encompass the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure that Israel says, probably quite correctly, was entrenched there. But in effectively ensuring that there will be no inquiry, at least for now, Israel is inviting the world to assume the worst. Which, unfortunately, is exactly what it will do
Bottom line, there is absolutely no reason for Israel to block an U.N investigation. It doesn't matter if the Russian Czar were heading the inquiry: there's no way to blame someone for a massacre if they can't find any bodies.
| For a dose of truth: | |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668601/posts Non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence |
Steyn: The UN is running out of blind eyes to turn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669411/posts Interesting link on UN backpedaling |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669632/posts Palestinians drop their hyped-up "massacre" charges |
Atrocities of the British Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669206/posts Huge amounts of ink devoted to unverified Pali tales |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672189/posts Hey, Jimmy Carter has an opinion too!! |
Reporters Back Down From Jenin "Massacre" Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668509/posts World press forced to face the truth: No Massacre |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part IV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672160/posts Yet more non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence |
NY POST: THE MASSACRE THAT WASN'T http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667529/posts Peres: There wasn't a house that wasn't booby-trapped |
| WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part V http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673145/posts The Pali's contradict themselves and blame it on Israel |
Steyn: It's time to snap out of Arab fantasy land http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669063/posts Some great Oriana Fallaci quotes/links as well |
| An interesting juxtaposition of tales: | |
| Message From An Israeli On The Front Lines http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673234/posts "Entire families exploded themselves! It was horrific." |
Palestinian Fighter admits: No Massacre in Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671903/posts 2,000 bombs and booby-traps placed in the camp |
| Pediatrician: terrorists used children in Jenin camp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670962/posts Doc: IDF did everything possible to avoid civilian harm |
Palestinians Booby-Trap Wheelchair in Jenin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670810/posts NOTE: The wheelchair was occupied!! |
| Jenin War Diary of a Hasidic Soldier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672951/posts Israeli citizen-soldier describes what went on in Jenin |
Palestinian fighter's version of the Jenin battle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672896/posts Pali Plan: Trap Israeli soldiers, then blow them up |
| And so, in conclusion: | |
| Massacre Claims Unsupported by Palestinian Fighters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675129/posts Pali eyewitnesses all support the Israeli version |
The Phantom Massacre http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672761/posts War Crimes in Jenin were committed by the Palis |
| Jenin's 'Massacre' Death Toll Reduced to 56 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675752/posts Israel told the truth; Palis did not |
Jenin's War Criminals http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675340/posts What the Palestinians did was the real war crime |
| The Jenin Probe Ends http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675737/posts UN unhappy about Israel's possible exhoneration |
The 'Jenin Massacre' Hoax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/677148/posts Living in a world of monstrous moral inversion |
LOL! Too funny.
Certainly you remember when OJ's lawyers were doing shuttle negotiations with the cops about whether or not he would submit to an arrest. Then, there was Greg Craig with Elian. Greg has actually pioneered the use of some methods!
Our news would be quite dull without these people around, and rather than view this as incompetence, it gives me hope that they will be able to develop a legal establishment as tricky as our own in a short time!
If they thought fighting the Israelis was a problem, wait until they get their own crop of predacious lawyers.
The fact that "Coffee" Anan stacked the team with a batch of anti-Jewish officials just "might" have a bit to do with it. The blatant anti-Israel prejudice of the UN leadership is disgusting.
The Palestinians were digging up graves and raiding a morgue. They would manufacture the bodies and the UN would repeat the lies as if they were truth.
Today, even Humus (or Hamas, if you want to get technical) admits that there was no massacre.
Have you seen who was on the commision? One of the three members was Cornelio Sommaruga, the former president of the International Red Cross who once compared the Star of David to the swastika.
Oh, yeah, these guys are really prepared to be objective. Sort of like Mad Maddie Albright, who, when she flew to Bosnia in 1994 to investigate what happened at Gorazde, announced her findings as soon as she landed in-country, before she even left the airport.
And aside from the fact that the palestinians are true to form when it comes to manufacturing evidence...
There is the issue of sovereignity. Under no circumstances would I as an American approve of a UN commission investigating riots or other such things in the US, so I sure as heck wouldn't expect Israel to submit to that nonsense. If we considered it OK for Israel, it wouldn't be too long before the UN would want to do it to the US. No thanks... I would sooner shoot a blue-helmet that give him authority over our own judicial process. And so, until the morally inferior UN conquers Israel the UN ought to go look after its own problems, for they are legion.
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