Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. - James Bovard
29.3.05
Jenin: Anniversary of a Battle
"Today, March 29, 2005 marks the three year anniversary of the battle of Jenin. If there is one incident that summarizes ...the way the terror war is fought in the media, this is it...
...Relying on phony information produced by Palestinian sources and claiming that Israel had killed over 500 civilians, leveled a hospital, deliberately shot children, and executed prisoners, almost all the foreign press harshly criticized the Israeli action...the Evening Standard, called it a "massacre, and a cover-up of genocide."...
The truth was very different: At the end of the operation, fifty-two Palestinians lay dead, almost all of whom were armed...[The casualty figures are from the U.N. investigative report into what happened at Jenin. In the U.N. report, the number of armed combatants was twenty-six. Israel’s own investigation concluded that only three of the casualties were unarmed.] On the Israeli side, twenty-three soldiers had been killed by Palestinian terrorists..."
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