Human Rights Watch: No evidence of massacre in Jenin

Jerusalem Post ^ | 4/28/2002 | Jerusalem Post

[backhoe]

Speaking of rolling, coasting, and brakes, when we lived out there, my brother-in-law's cars consisted of a 1974 Volvo, a station wagon of ancient, forgotten vintage, and a 1963 Caddy Fleetwood- which was my favorite to drive up & down the hills.

When that monster would crest a hill and start lumbering down, all the little eco-boxes would scatter before it like chickens before a hawk!

Speaking of OS's... this?

A book I highly recommend is Windows Secrets

I will try to hunt down... Win 95 drives me nuts with all its "different ways to do the same dam' thing..."

Found this:

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And FWIW, I emailed Fox about Star... we could use her in our corner.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Go to a used book store...out here Half Price Books is Awesome...People will have dumped older versions of the book already so they probably won't even list '95 on the internet anymore...just be SURE the book comes with the software disk if you're going to be using that release for a while...the utilities are indispensable. The Secrets 95 book was the first one I read and just blew me away...I left it at the company I worked for...I still haven't upgraded to XP because I can't afford the software AND the latest book of Secrets...One without the other is not satisfactory...give me Documentation over stability...anyday!

[sleavelessinseattle]

Speaking of rolling, coasting, and brakes, when we lived out there, my brother-in-law's cars consisted of a 1974 Volvo, a station wagon of ancient, forgotten vintage, and a 1963 Caddy Fleetwood- which was my favorite to drive up & down the hills. When that monster would crest a hill and start lumbering down, all the little eco-boxes would scatter before it like chickens before a hawk!

Now you're talking! My parents gave me their Checker Marathon when I turned 16...They painted it black! I immediately put a Mercedes hood ornament on it...People would go nuts looking at it! I learned about car construction...I use to hit things when I got frustrated, and I used to bang my fist on that big hunk of steel and it never even moved...Then I got a Chevy Montecarlo and had an engine problem one day and just slapped the side and put a huge Dent in the metal...OOPS...They don't make em like that anymore...Glad I never hit anyone with that beast...it would have looked like Christine!

[Cachelot]

"There is simply no evidence of a massacre. But we are worried that Israel will use this fact to whitewash the enormous amount of damage done to the civilian sector."

Non-babelfish translation: "There was no massacre! This is simply a catastrophe, we had relied on this for the continued UN offensive against Israel. Even if our Hamas/Al-Aqsa friends carry a few extra corpses into Jenin it is doubtful if it will be enough. What to do, what to do...."

[ecomcon]

mas·sa·cre

Pronunciation Key (ms-kr) n.

1. The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.

2. The slaughter of a large number of animals.

3. Informal. A severe defeat, as in a sports event.

[RightOnline]

You bring up a perfectly legitimate point. However, you are basing your point (points, actually) on an assumption that may be erroneous: that the snipers were actually knowingly targeting civilians.

This ignores too many crucial factors: lack of uniforms (combatants indistinguishable from the "locals"; ask any Vietnam vet about this one); the "fog of war"; combatants deliberately hiding behind civilians or suddenly ducking amongst them; snipers do miss on occasion, etc., etc.

If the Israeli snipers were out to "off" civilians, then I can assure you that there would have far more casualties among the local populace.

Your concerns are perfectly valid, but IMHO, not borne out by the facts as we know them.