Posted on 02/15/2012 7:52:39 AM PST by PRePublic
Jenin Operation 'Defensive Shield' by the IDF to root out terrorists. Arafat's terrorists saturate houses with booby traps, IDF, in order to minimize civilian casualties, had to go door to door on the look out for terrorists while risking their own lives. The Arab-Islamic propagandists were exposed as [again] liars when they screamed "massacre," while, in fact, most casualties were armed. They also inflated numbers, including adding dug out bodies from the cemetery. Muslim groups, the likes of infamous Muslim Students Association still incite on a mythical "massacre," based on the lies.
Operation Defensive Shield
Jump to Background on Jenin: Aerial Photographs of Jenin - April 2002. The Jenin Combat Zone: Flash presentation - Palestinian terror operatives
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/3/Operation+Defensive+Shield.htm
USATODAY.com - U.N. report: No massacre in Jenin
Aug 1, 2002 – UNITED NATIONS (AP) A long-awaited U.N. report rejects Palestinian claims that Israeli forces carried out a massacre in the Jenin..
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-08-01-unreport-jenin_x.htm
Palestinians adding bodies from cemetery to Jenin mass grave MARGOT DUDKEVITCH - Apr. 30, 2002 The Jerusalem Post
Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp are inflating the number of residents killed during Operation Defensive Shield by adding bodies of residents buried in a local cemetery to a mass grave that contains the bodies of 26 residents killed in the IDF operation, the army said yesterday.
http://naturalsolutionsradio.com/blog/natural-solutions-radio/palestinians-adding-bodies-cemetery-jenin-mass-grave
IDF: Palestinians adding bodies from cemetery to Jenin mass grave
Jerusalem Post - Apr 30, 2002
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/117015826.html?dids=117015826:117015826&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+30%2C+2002
The Big Jenin Lie
The only good thing about the Jenin "massacre" was watching the propaganda being debunked in record time. 12:00 AM, May 8, 2002 - By RICHARD STARR
PRECISELY A MONTH AGO, on April 8, the Palestinian news agency Wafa was reporting that Israel had committed the "massacre of the 21st century" in the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. "Medical sources" informed Wafa of "hundreds of martyrs." This was a lie, concocted not only for local consumption--to keep the Palestinian people whipped up in a patriotic, Israel-hating frenzy--but mostly for export to the West.
That same day, you could hear breathless reports of the supposed Israeli atrocities in Jenin being spread by Palestinian sources on NPR, CNN, and elsewhere. Typical was the hysteria of Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, on CNN: "There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp. . . . Just look at the TV and watch, watch what the--what the Israel forces are doing. . . . This is a war crime, clear war crime, witnessed by the whole world, preventing ambulances, preventing people from being buried. I mean this is an all-out assault against the whole population."
No, this was an all-out assault on the truth. There was a pitched battle in Jenin. But the "hundreds" of martyrs were a cynical invention. The death toll was 56 Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and 23 Israeli soldiers.
Unlike the celebrated foreign-dispatch lies of the 20th century--the New York Times's Walter Duranty Pulitzer-winning cover-up of Stalin's murderous Ukraine famine, say, or Herbert Matthews's 1957 reports of Senor Fidel Castro's hopes for a "democratic Cuba"--the Jenin fraud has been almost entirely inflated and then deflated in the short space of a month. I think it's safe to say that no one will win a Pulitzer for reporting on the (non-existent) "massacre of the 21st century." This was amateur-hour propaganda, and any reporter who fell for it should be mortified.
Mostly that means British reporters. Full credit to the Guardian for allowing Sharon Sadeh to administer a well-deserved flogging to Fleet Street in its pages on Monday. "The Independent, the Guardian and the Times, in particular," writes Sadeh, "were quick to denounce Israel and made sensational accusations based on thin evidence, fitting a widely held stereotype of a defiant, brutal and don't-give-a-damn Israel." You can read the whole satisfying piece here.
Not that American reporters were without sin. Screenwriter Daniel Gordan's description of the ax-grinding media in action is also worth a click. My favorite part is his description of this encounter between CNN's Sheila MacVicar and an Israeli soldier in Jenin:
"One [Israeli] reservist sensed MacVicar's hostility. He was a soft-spoken man who approached her and introduced himself as the reserve unit's medical officer, Dr. David Zangen. He told her that when the fighting was over, they found photograph albums of children from roughly 6 years of age up through early and mid-teens. It was an album of photos of children who would be the next crop of suicide killers, with notations indicating when each of the children would be ripe. The reporter had no time for the doctor, however.
"'Perhaps you should ask yourself why,'" she said, dismissing him.
"'I do, madam,' he said, 'I ask myself why. I can't imagine it. I can't imagine sending one's child out to be a mass murderer who commits suicide to kill women and children.'
"'Well, I can explain it,' said the reporter. 'For me it all comes down to one word, "occupation."'
"'But madam,' the doctor said, 'Jenin hasn't been occupied for nine years.'"
Oops.
Richard Starr is a managing editor at The Weekly Standard.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/218vnicq.asp
Those who forget the past: the question of anti-Semitism - Page 46 - Ron Rosenbaum - Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 11, 2004 - 649 pages
Take the battle of Jenin. The Guardian was moved to write the editorial opinion that Israel's attacks on Jenin were ... main spokesman Saeb Erekat has been shown time and time again to be a liar. Human Rights Watch now puts the death toll at a total of 54, and on their count 22 civilians — the Israelis say 3. Some Palestinian militants in fact claim Jenin as a victory in the killing of 23 Israeli soldiers.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kr9tAAAAMAAJ&q="saeb+erekat"
Israel Defender - Jenin, The Massacre That Never Was
Jun 2, 2002
http://israeldefender.com/?p=118Whenever I see discredited liar, Saeb Erekat, given more airtime to expound the Palestinian "truth" about a so called Israeli calumny, I recall a particular CNN broadcast in April, during the height of the sound and fury which followed the alleged Jenin massacre.
There was Erekat telling the world that Israel had massacred over 500 innocent, defenseless Arabs. Grilled by CNN's disbelieving anchor Bill Hemmer, he didn't budge from this outrageous lie. Here is a quote from Honest Reporting which published a transcript:
Erekat's "absolutely"
" . . . when Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erekat claimed that 500 Palestinians were massacred in Jenin, (CNN's) Atlanta-based anchor Bill Hemmer demanded to see proof, and challenged him: ‘If [Israel's] numbers are right and your initial numbers are wrong, will you come back here on our network and retract what you said?' ” Erekat replied: “Absolutely.”
Relying on public's short memory
That "absolutely" continues to ring in my mind. For of course Erekat did not come back to CNN to retract his evil lie. Despite his Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies from Bradford University, Erekat is a consummate propagandist who never apologizes in public for lying. He relies on the public's short memory to forget such details. And in general this seems to work very well for him.
So the apology promised to Bill Hemmer never happened. Palestinian propagandists never apologize for misleading both the news media and the public. They rely on our short memories. It doesn't take all that long for the public to forget.
UN Reports 'No Evidence of Alleged Massacre'
Late in April the UN released its report on Israel's military incursion into Jenin. It documented 52 Palestinian deaths (30 militants, 22 civilians, and 23 Israeli soldiers). It concluded there was no evidence whatever of a Palestinian massacre. (Israel's figures were 52 killed (38 armed men, 14 civilians.)
As far as lying goes this 10 to 1 exaggeration was in a class all its own. The liars were the Palestinians and Erekat in the first instance; Prof. Derrick Pounder and Amnesty in the second – supported by the BBC. While CNN evinced disbelief in Erkat's numbers, BBC went along dutifully. (By ‘dutifully' I wish to infer that where the Palestine-Israel conflict is concerned, BBC generally slants things the Palestinian way.)
It's not news that Palestinian propagandists don't apologize when caught out by their lies. Getting in first with lies brings them worthwhile PR rewards – at the expense of Israel's slow moving truth.
Peace talks with a liar?
Honest folk who make mistakes have no such problems. Apologies are offered at the earliest opportunity. Israel has demonstrated this, with suitable expressions of regret, when correct to do so.
To think that this accomplished liar will continue to represent the Palestinian Authority at peace negotiations is an affront to President Bush and to those in his coalition who are pressing for Palestinian regime change. Not the least to Israel which might be required to talk peace with him face to face.
Always ready to believe the worst of the Israelis.
And the best of the Palestinians.Still in hot pursuit of the massacre that never was the BBC aired this "authoritative" scoop on April 18:
"A British forensic expert who has gained access to the West Bank city of Jenin says evidence points to a massacre by Israeli forces. BBC must get their dig in. Here they say "gains" access, as if he had to do this illegally or dangerously. (In the next sentence however, we find that Israel had granted him access.)
"Prof Derrick Pounder, who is part of an Amnesty International team granted access to Jenin, said he has seen bodies lying in the streets and received eyewitness accounts of civilian deaths.”
"The truth will come out" – Pounder”
The Dundee University expert said the Amnesty investigation has only just begun but Palestinian claims of a massacre were gaining foundation as the team continued its analysis. Pounder said: "The truth will come out, as it has come out in Bosnia and Kosovo, as it has in other places where we’ve had these kinds of allegations." Prof. Pounder doesn't hesitate to lay the truth on the side of the Palestinians. But Pounder lied, as it became clear when the UN counted the bodies.
The allegations are truthful, said Pounder
" I must say that the evidence before us at the moment doesn’t lead us to believe that the allegations are anything other than truthful and that therefore there are large numbers of civilian dead underneath these bulldozed and bombed ruins that we see."
"The Dundee University expert said the Amnesty investigation has only just begun but Palestinian claims of a massacre were gaining foundation as the team continued its analysis." (My italics.) Amnesty's report, quoting Derrick Pounder, its authoritative scientist, provided evidence – not rumor – of a genuine massacre.
This can only mean that the number of bodies already counted should have been far more than Israel's estimates of 50 to 56. As lying goes this one – from a respected university scientist – was as bad as Erekat's.
Where's the apology?
Did BBC ever apologize for the daily Jenin blackening of Israel, until Israel's truth was finally and undeniably confirmed? Nor did the malevolent, malice-aforethought Pounder apologize.
This pretentious expert must be required to apologize, publicly, for his blatant lie. Or be consigned by his university to a well-deserved oblivion. His continued employment as an Amnesty investigator is also untenable.
Has BBC learned a lesson they will never forget?
That'll be the frosty Friday. The only lesson they learned was they can continue to quote lie after Palestinian lie with impunity. Sadly, the BBC would rather propagate Palestinian lies than Israel's truth. Should you research the massacre that never was you will be sickened by the plethora of plainly anti-Semitic reports that played out in British media.
The BBC may not be aware of it but the fact is it is helping to spread anti-Semitism not only in the UK but throughout the world.
FrontPage Magazine - Muslim Mythology
By By: Joel Mowbray
Apr 20, 2005 – When I was asked about the “Jenin Massacre” by a Muslim student during an ... 20 Apr 2005 - 56 Palestinians had died, but 47 of them were armed. The civilian casualties were at a minimum because Israeli soldiers went door-to-door and put their own lives at risk.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8872
Ariel Cohen on Jenin on National Review Online
Apr 16, 2002 – ... the reality turned to be completely different: difficult door-to-door infantry fight; ... When Israeli troops surrounded Jenin, it was widely reported by the ... placing themselves at risk while trying to protect Palestinian lives. One of ...
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-cohen041602.asp
Spielberg’s Moral Confusion
Munich’s problem.
By Mona Charen
Jan 6, 2006 ... Besides, reasonable people understand that there is a moral chasm that separates Israel from the terrorists. Then and now, terrorists target innocent civilians. Their aim is to cause despair, grief, and fear among their enemies and to gain the attention of the world. They are indifferent to the suffering they cause - indeed, even celebrate it. Israelis (and Americans) go out of their way to prevent harm to innocent civilians - even at severe risk to themselves. In Jenin in 2002 the Israeli army sent soldiers to locate terrorists in door to door fighting rather than risk innocent civilian lives by using tanks, helicopters, or planes to attack the terror stronghold. Twenty-three Israeli soldiers were killed who would not have died if Israel had used more indiscriminate violence.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/charen200601060710.asp
Israeli Security - Palestinian Territories - Why Arafat Went to War
Jun 19, 2002 – Israel’s Restrained Response
Arafat’s strategy led to an Israeli counterstrategy of restraint. “We understood that we needed not only to minimize the number of casualties on our side, but that it was very important that we minimize the number of casualties on the Palestinian side as well. So the IDF adopted an overt strategy of very strong restraint, much more defense than offense. We sought to do everything possible to minimize the number of casualties not only on our side but also on the other side.”
[...] In some areas in Jenin every house had explosive booby-traps. ... Infantrymen went door-to-door, house-to-house, doing whatever they could ...
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=813
‘Massacre in Jenin’ another one of Arafat’s lies - Houston Chronicle
Jan 4, 2012 – ... into the city, the reality was different: a difficult door-to-door infantry fight; ... placing themselves at risk while trying to protect Palestinian lives.
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Massacre-in-Jenin-another-one-of-Arafat-s-lies-2070746.php
From Gaza, Tragedy And Propaganda | FrumForum
Jun 17, 2006 – Israeli troops retook Jenin, fighting door-to-door against booby traps and snipers
http://www.frumforum.com/from-gaza-tragedy-and-propaganda
(In Jenin...) You [IDF] went door-to-door, risking young Israeli lives, in a town that was booby trapped with explosives from top to bottom. In any other war, rockets from the air force would have been launched, demolishing everything in sight, with no regard for civilian lives. Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima? But you - Israel, a country built on family-oriented, freedom loving people - you had to worry about civilian casualties.
http://www.joe4rep.com/KC%205-1-02.htm
Congressional Record V. 148, Pt. 4, April 11, 2002 to April 24, 2002 - Page 4795 - Congress
The Jerusalem cafe attack that killed 11 people and wounded 50 took place in Ramallah.
Well, door to door the Israelis have been going, trying to find those that would do harm to their people. ... word spread that a group of Israeli Defense Force soldiers - 13, it would turn out - had been killed in an ambush in Jenin.
http://books.google.com/books?id=iOgfSDKecCcC&pg=PA4795
House Session - C-SPAN Video Library
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/appearance/596213969
I need to visit Pearl Optics.
I remember how breathless ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN was in reporting the latest Israeli “atrocity”..
Larger font is your friend.
And BBC/NPR.
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