Posted on 04/16/2002 12:37:59 AM PDT by Jurist
Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime
- Phil Reeves in Jenin, 16 April 2002
excerpts from article
A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of people are still living amid the ruins.....
Building after building has been torn apart, their contents of cheap fake furnishings, mattresses, white plastic chairs spewed out into the road. Every other building bears the giant, charred, impact mark of a helicopter missile. Last night there were still many families and weeping children still living amid the ruins, cut off from the humanitarian aid. Ominously, we found no wounded, although there was a report of a man being rescued from beneath ruins only an hour before we arrived.
Those who did not flee the camp, or not detained by the army, have spent the bombardment in basements, enduring day after day of terror. Some were forced into rooms by the soldiers, who smashed their way into houses through the walls. The UN says half of the camp's 15,000 residents were under 18. As the evening hush fell over these killing fields, we could suddenly hear the children chattering. The mosques, once so noisy at prayer time, were silent.
Israel was still trying to conceal these scenes yesterday. It had refused entry to Red Cross ambulances for nearly a week, in violation of the Geneva Convention. Yesterday it continued to try to keep us out. Jenin, in the northern end of the occupied West Bank, remained "a closed military zone", was ringed Merkava tanks, army Jeep patrols, and armoured personnel carriers. Reporters caught trying to get in were escorted out....
Question: what happened?
If indeed an atrocity has been committed, the blame - rightly or wrongly -- will be placed on America's shoulders.
It is only a short step from there to see that any vengeance to be had will be visited upon Americans.
What, pray tell, is 'this'. The only action being alleged is that there are buildings that have been blown up. Since when is that a war crime?
Ridiculous.
Now that was a war crime!!
Israel will be accused continuously UNTIL some legal/national opeation finds a means to charge the leaders with war crimes. Israel has played the fool, trying to be "merciful" and should have bombed from the air as we did in afghanistan... leaving so little that resembles human remains and building structures, that no credible evidence exists... and none of the remaining sour grapes losers who started THIS war by sacrificing their children to sadaams money for murder scheme.
They all needed to die... alexander said "NEVER leave an enemy standing.... never" and he was right.
The sheep obeyed orders yesterday and marched down to DC to wave Israeli flags and get their pictures taken. Pictures which will be shown in every Muslim nation. Americans cheering on the IDF interspersed with pictures of dead children (if there are no dead kids, Arabs will create some. If there were not war crimes, that doesn't matter either. Arabs will say there were. These imagines Americans so willingly gave them are too good to pass up).
America is evil. Israel is evil. Democracy and freedom from terrorists is evil... only the hate and murderous jihad of communists and islamists is good...
We clearly deserve their hatred and anger, for we are the mighty haves, and they are the myriads of have nots. Their mighty god... "kill your kids" will have his revenge on us evil "promoters of license and immorality." That is what it is, because they SAY so... and they MUST be telling the truth, for they are the mighty, the invincible, the poorest bastards on the face of the earth, now sanctified by worldwide sainthood via the title of "VICTIMS." < /sarcasm >
YES, the palestinians have inflated the death toll numbers, by killing their own people... and will now blame their dead children, who they have sacrificed to the god of victimhood status, on Israelis defending their homes from invading murderors.
I don't know....but several people including myself suspected this strategy of "war crimes" would be use, and lo and behold, here it is....if it worked against Slobo, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, or some stupid cliche like that...
...As the evening hush fell over these killing fields...
This is unbelievable. "Ominously," they don't even find anyone wounded. So they label it a "war crime," with "killing fields." What a blatant example of media spin.
Well Larry, when they come for us, are you going to run to them yelling "I'm on your side! I'm on your side!?" It does not matter if you agree with our strategy or our tactics. This is a war between civilizations, soon to be a full-fledged war, possibly on a scale exceeding WWI and WWII. The only thing that can stop it now will be a preemptive takeout strike by us or surrender on our parts. When the balloon goes up, you are either going to be in the trenches with us, and the Jews, or you are going to be in the trenches with the Islamists. Neutrals will be shot at by both sides, so you will have to decide which side you are on.
Can I have some fries with that "vengeance"?
We are still talking about the same Palestenians that danced on the streets on 9/11, aren't we?
I have less than zero sympathy.
Right, let's give in to the terrorists and cease to gather anywhere in the USA.
At least we (civilized humans) don't dance in the streets at the news of death.
roflmao. twas funny.
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