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To: Principled; Spruce; tomahawk; hellinahandcart; feinswinesuksass; homeschool mama; aomagrat...
A sadly funny comment has shown up on this thread over at IndyMedia: a well meaning lib, working with Peace Now in Israel, earnestly tries to explain that facts matter. It seems he/she just doesn't "get it".
I have contacted both Amy Goodman (Democracy now) and Dennis Bernstein (KPFA, Flashpoints) about my finding [re: the Jenin non-massacre] and asked that they conduct complete investigations and not just publish the massacre claims as being reported from Palestinian and western sources (like UK independent). I offered to give them phone numbers of Israeli soldiers who were in Jenin, people who are not afraid to give their full name and tell their story (not the behavior one would expect from person guilty in war crimes)

To my surprise they did not want to interview them.

Dennis Bernstein has accused me as being a Sharon supporter and other things. Democracy now was more subtle, repeatedly telling me that it is not the "right time" to interview an Israeli doctor who was the chief medical officer in the Jenin operation and personally treated many Palestinians. They tried to find his political viewpoint before putting him on air and eventually delayed it (so far for two weeks)

I have wrote both Ms. Goodman and Mr. Bernstein that eventually the truth about Jenin will come out and will hurt their creditability. That I have found no evidence that there was "ethnic cleansing" - as was reported on KPFA or "Carpet Bombing" of the camp by F-16 - as was reported by Brian woods who was also on Democracy Now.

I now wonder, after finding that these reports are not true - was I fooled all these years in which I trusted Amy Goodman, Democracy Now and Dennis Bernstein – I hope not.


26 posted on 05/04/2002 8:59:44 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
I guess there are some well meaning people amongst the mass of knee jerk leftists. Real stupid, but well meaning. In any case, good catch. The leftist media crew has jobs waiting for them at CNN where they will fit right in.
34 posted on 05/04/2002 5:56:57 PM PDT by RippleFire
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