Sharon: Reports of massacre 'ridiculous'

[NewsGuy]

From JPost.com:

Sharon: Reports of a Jenin massacre 'ridiculous'

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sunday rejected as "lies" of the "Palestinian empire of falsehood" reports Israel is burying Palestinians killed in the fighting with the IDF in the Jenin refugee camp last week.

"They look you in the eye and lie," Sharon said of the Palestinians. He said that not a single body has been buried.
Sharon also said rumors a massacre had been carried out are "ridiculous."

In a meeting with members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he said he does not believe there is another army that would have acted as "cautiously" as the IDF did in Jenin, including the US Army. Other armies, Sharon said, would have "bombed the entire area."

Meanwhile, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told the cabinet the number of Palestinians killed in Jenin was in the dozens, not the hundreds.

Responding to criticism of the IDF Spokesman for saying there were hundreds of Palestinians killed in Jenin, Ben-Eliezer said the spokesman was confused between hundreds who were injured and dozens who were killed.

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Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said many buildings in the camp were demolished because the terrorists wired them with explosives.

"There wasn't a house that wasn't booby-trapped," Peres said, "and there was no way to neutralize the danger without demolishing the structure."

[muslim4israel2]

Obviously a non biased opinion.

[ibrodsky]

SO SICK: A protestor at an anti-Israeli demo in Berlin dresses his daughter up as a suicide bomber - her tiny body strapped with sticks of pretend TNT

Such is the nature of the noble Palestinian cause.

[ibrodsky]

Haven't you heard Newsguy?

Whenever Palestinians are killed it is a "massacre."

In the terrorist PA culture, it is an act of resistance to tell lies and an act of heroism to blow up Jewish civilians.

[NewsGuy]

Originally posted by ibrodsky
In the terrorist PA culture, it is an act of resistance to tell lies and an act of heroism to blow up Jewish civilians.

Of course, it is the national goal of the Palestinians' brutal and corrupt dictatorship to deceive, to incite and to cause the slaughter of innocent Israelis and Americans.

When the mutilated bodies of Israeli babies and teenagers line the streets of Israel as a result of Arafat's suicide/homicide bombing regime, it is called a "legitimate act of resistance."

But if Israel fights the terrorists in their own cities, destroys their bomb factories and suicide bomber training camps, then it is a "massacre," and the entire world is outraged at Israel.

[alm0nd]

Well ... We all hope it's nothing but a rumor ... or even a dream

[Oh Jerusalem]

Originally posted by alm0nd
Well ... We all hope it's nothing but a rumor ... or even a dream

I don't understand. Is this your dream?

[alm0nd]

Ok ... a nightmare

[raven]

The phrase I just heard is good to use. Not a massacre but a "myth of a massacre". Short and sweet and knocks this big lie down.

Course we have to deal with what the majority will CLAIM is enough people to label it a massacre. Will they say---45 people is a massacre or what? Thats the rub. They probably will.

Its always important to know who is in charge of Definitions. They can just define anything-- anyway they want. We have to fight this.

[NewsGuy]

I think that what this comes down to is another Arab-manufactured lie in the making, a la the Sabra and Shatila massacre lie, the occupation lie, and the Deir Yassin lie.

Only this time, we get a closeup view of how the lie is manufactured, how it is spreading, how false it is, and how quickly it is being adopted by various anti-Semites and Arab apologists, and how it is being used as justification for further deliberate massacres of Israeli civilians.

When complete, the Arab lie will never mention that terrorists in Jenin were shooting at Israeli soldiers, that those terrorists have admitted to the suicide-slaughter of Israeli children, that there were missile factories and suicide bomb-making factories hidden in residences, etc. There will simply be a claim that Israel killed "hundreds" of innocent Palestinians for no reason at all.

[Mediocrates]

For the West - the foaming CNN leading war on everything Israeli - even they couldn't keep the story going more than 2 days. I'm reminded of Chernobyl when the NY Post printed on it's frontpage "Nukemare - mass graves with 15,000 bodies" which of course sold papers and was utterly false.

[Mediocrates]

http://www.observer.co.uk/internatio...687959,00.html


"Not a Massacre"

I wonder if some editor's head exploded typing that one?

[L@mplighterM]

I never believed that it was a massacre at Jenin but I’ll tell you that I’m having a difficult time convincing others. Per capita I’m certain that there’s more anti Semitic than at any other time in history.

That old land story keeps on coming up and I wouldn’t be surprised that an overwhelming percentage of the world population believes that Israel has stolen their land.

The economic flak from this is going to hurt for a long time.

At this point I’m not all that certain that aerial bombardment wouldn’t have been better. For one thing it wouldn’t have put Israeli soldiers in harms way and it would have been a lot quicker.

At the time of this writing I’m 100% certain that genuine war crimes are being committed through Africa and the UN couldn’t care less. Russia’s assault on the Islamic Fundamentalists in Cheznia resulted in less overall criticism from the world community.

What I just can’t understand is how anyone could support Arafat considering his ties to world terrorism.

[Mediocrates]

The mid east is already off the front page of Cnn.com and MSNBC.com. Almost off USAToday and almost put below the fold on the NYtimes. It seems the American media is losing patience with the Palestinian activists who just aren't blowing themselves up like they used to.

On a related note here is an excerpt from today's NYTimes Editorial from Tom Friedman:

"Think about two recent stories. The Times Education Life supplement just reported that the best-selling book in China for the past 16 months is a book, in Chinese, about how to get your teenager into Harvard, titled "Harvard Girl Yiting Liu." In this book a Chinese mother shares her "scientifically proven methods" for getting her daughter into Harvard. It has sold more than 1.1 million copies and triggered 15 copycats for how to get into Columbia, Oxford or Cambridge. In the same week it was reported that the normally intelligent Saudi ambassador in London, Ghazi Algosaibi, had published a poem in Al-Hayat in praise of the 18-year-old Palestinian girl who blew herself up in an Israeli supermarket, saying to her, "You died to honor God's word."

A society that makes a best seller about how to get its teenagers into Harvard will eventually build Harvards of its own. But leaders who glorify a teenager who committed suicide in a supermarket full of civilians will never build a country that can live on anything other than oil; their priorities will be too messed up. Israel did not "honor" God in Jenin, and neither do suicide bombers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/opinion/24FRIE.html