Posted on 12/15/2011 10:57:25 AM PST by Amerisrael
Was the alledged Srebrenica genocide like the Jenin genocide?
That is, in terms of real facts and evidence.
Jenin- Massacring Truth:
["Two years ago [2002], spurred to act by a series of suicide bombings that took the lives of some 87 Israeli citizens and wounded 570 others, the Israeli Defense Force attacked what it believed to be a terrorist stronghold in the heart of the West Bank town of Jenin, a place of densely packed buildings and labyrinthine alleys and home to a close-knit core of Palestinian fighters thought to be responsible for 25 per cent of the bombings.
What happened that day was said to be a massacre on the scale of Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya, with entire buildings flattened and hundreds of Palestinian civilians killed.
People around the world assumed this to be true because United Nations aid workers, The Independent, the Times of London, The Guardian, BBC News and a host of other media organizations across Europe reported it to be so.
"Massacre evidence growing," a headline on BBC's website blared on April 18, 2002.
There was just one small problem. None of that happened."]--read it all.
One British reporter asserted the following:
[" Israel’s actions in Jenin were “every bit as repellent” as Osama Bin Laden’s attack on New York on September 11, wrote Britain’s the Guardian in its lead editorial of April 17.
“We are talking here of massacre, and a cover-up, of genocide,” said a leading columnist for the Evening Standard, London’s main evening newspaper, on April 15.
“Rarely in more than a decade of war reporting from Bosnia, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, have I seen such deliberate destruction, such disrespect for human life,” reported Janine di Giovanni, the London Times’s correspondent in Jenin, on April 16."]--read the rest.
All proven false.
A key excerpt from a Frontpage article on Arafat:
["Having been schooled in the Big Lie by Arafat himself, the Palestinian Authority cried “massacre” after Jenin, a completely false claim that was echoed in the world’s anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) press."
"Sa’eb Erekat the Palestinian’s “chief peace negotiator” and a Palestinian Authority official claimed that “thousands had died….well, no…actually five hundred…well, no, but certainly hundreds….well at least scores.”
"To support the false accusations of a massacre, PLO operatives actually exhumed months-old corpses and brought them, decomposed and rotting, to the hospitals to show to Red Cross officials. They filmed a fake funeral, which was caught on tape by an Israeli aerial camera — complete with the ‘corpse’ falling off the bier, getting up, and getting back on again."
" Terji Rhodes-Larsen, a UN official acting as an observer, was deeply frustrated by the fact that he could find no evidence of a massacre; so, in a characteristic anti-Israel rant, he screamed into the microphones of EU cameramen: “with all of this destruction, there must be some evidence of massive human rights violations somewhere!” When the smoke cleared and the Red Cross made its report, there were 59 dead Palestinians, all but a few were armed terrorists."]--read it all here.
Srebrenica: The Urban Legend:
"The alleged Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims in July 1995 is referred to regularly by the mainstream media as a moral touchstone, an example of “genocide” that can take place when the U.S. is not the moral arbiter or when the U.S. hesitates to intervene on behalf of an endangered part of humanity somewhere in the world. And many Americans, conditioned by sixteen years of media saturation, responded reflexively and have come to agree that a genocide occurred in Srebrenica even though there is still no proof sixteen years later...."]--read the rest here.
"The Genocide Myth- Uses and Abuses of Srebrenica"
Srdja Trifkovic, author of "The Sword of the Prophet" asserts the following:
["The trouble is that the event known to the bill’s sponsors as the “Srebernica genocide” was no such thing."
" The contention that as many as 8,000 Muslims were killed has no basis in available evidence; it is not an “estimate” but a political construct."
" The magnitude of casualties at Srebrenica and the context of events have been routinely misrepresented in official reports by the pro-Muslim governments, quasi-non-governmental institutions, and the media."]
--read it all.
See also-
Pushing the Myth-Grayfalcon
Condi Rice braggs about killing U.S. House Armenian Genocide Resolution
"The Muslim Brotherhood, Genocide, and Obama"-American Thinker
Islam: The Religion of Genocide-Astute bloggers
I remember seeing that “funeral”.
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