THE MASSACRE THAT WASN'T

New York Post ^ | 4/17/02

[kattracks]

April 17, 2002 -- For days, Palestinian, U.N. and aid-group officials declared flatly that Israeli troops had perpetrated a horrendous massacre of innocent civilians at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

Once outside observers were allowed into the camp, they charged, it would be clear that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's soldiers had committed a monstrous war crime that would eclipse the killing fields of Kosovo.

[xm177e2]

Sharon didn't want the reporters there, because he knew they'd try to screw him. They did anyway. Oh well. The important thing is that the mission has been accomplished.

[The Great Satan]

I seem to recall that the Post was pretty happy to push the muslims' lies during our attack on Serbia. What goes around, comes around.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Any time now, all those reporters and newspapers who printed and reported stories of 'massacres' will retract them, and apologize to the IDF, to Sharon, and the Israeli people. -- Not!

[Imal]

Sadly, the damage to Israel's image already has been done. Far too many people already believe the legend of the Jenin massacre, and international media reports - especially in Europe - refuse to acknowledge the truth.

Par for the course throughout history. Israel's "image" with Europeans hasn't changed at all; it's the same old same old. In fact, by historical standards, this is a walk in the park for the Israelis.

The people who repeatedly jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon, such as Kofi Annan and the various bellyachers of the EU, have developed an image of their own, and it's quite clear where their sentiments lie.

Bottom line: everyone knows it's a lie, and a great excuse for another glorious round of good old-fashioned Jew-bashing. Not to mention a fine chance to get into bed with terrorists and indulge their darker tastes. Hoo haw. Have fun boys.

But don't think you're actually fooling anyone with a functioning neuron in their head.

Imal

[DoughtyOne]

Glad to see reports like this confirm what I suspected all along. Combat is tough. I think the Israelis conducted themselves as they should have. Bombing facilites were found. Houses were boobytraped. Combat ensued. Terrorists died. Good. I am sorry that Israeli soldiers had to die to accomplish this though.

[backhoe]

I noticed yesterday that the Arab apologists who plague talk radio were avoiding the "Camp of the Dead" talking point in favor of "Sharon's just a Murderer, Palestinians are Freedom Fighers, and All We have are Rocks versus Israeli Tanks" variant of spin. FWIW!

[Jethro Tull]

It isn't suprising that John Podhoretz would take this editorial position. After all his father (Norman), his mother (Midge Rosenthal Decter), and Irving Kristol are the "Founding Fathers" of the neo-conservative movement.

Something awful happened in Jenin and we'll discover the truth in due time.

The question for some on this forum is, can the truth be recognized and accepted?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The question for some on this forum is, can the truth be recognized and accepted?

The question has been answered, there was no massacre, the question is whether or not you will recognize the truth, Dr. Goebbels?

[section9]

Massacre? What massacre.

The only massacre I saw was to the truth in rags like The Guardian.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Cachelot]

Arafat's henchmen, confronted by the evidence, now claim that the Israelis secretly spirited away hundreds of bodies under cover of night.

"She turned me into a newt!"

A newt??

"I got better....."

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

When debating an opponent who makes a salient point, be sure to discredit that opponent by making some allusion to Nazism.

There are forces in the world bombing Jews, not Israelis, burning synagogues, in Europe, not Israel. There are European leaders saying that Jews, not Israelis, can't have their lives saved in France. The doors of the gas chambers are wide open, and this story was planted to push the world's Jewry into them. The poster I responded to, by furthering this propaganda, is consciously or unconsciously part of this revived Nazi activity, which has already returned France to its days as the Vichy Republic.

Unfortunately for people like you, the forces of decency are aroused. If you try too hard to push the Jews into these chambers, you may find yourselves there.

[MadelineZapeezda]

One U.N. official told Moore, "Everybody was thinking mass graves in the way we think of Kosovo." But, he added, "I don't think we have seen that."

They haven't seen it in Kosovo either.

[AmericaUnited]

Something awful happened in Jenin and we'll discover the truth in due time.

No, we discovered the truth today! No massacre happened. You believe a group, the PLO, that been shown to spew lie after lie after lie. Constant, never ending, pathological lying! Only fools and idiots believe anything they say.

What does this say about YOU that YOU believe them? What a laughing stock@!

[Jethro Tull]

"The question has been answered, there was no massacre, the question is whether or not you will recognize the truth, Dr. Goebbels?"

It's always a delight exposing you neocon swine to the light of truth.

So, I question the partiality of John Podhoretz's editorial in the New York Post, and you call me a nazi.

The Middle East butchery has further "Kristolized" the neocon "Israel First" position.

And this is good....

[Jethro Tull]

#18:

"No, we discovered the truth today! No massacre happened."

Signed,
Ariel Sharon