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Please name one country, other than America, who doesn't suspect a tragedy happened in Jenin.

Oh hell, I believe three tragedies happened in Jenin.

1.The Israelis did not have JDAMs at their disposal to take out the Pallie terrorists from above.

2.As a result, the IDF had to go house-to-house. As a result, 15 IDF reservists were killed who did not have to be.

3.Some Pallie terrorists actually escaped. The only good terr is a dead terr, ya' know.

Damn, Jethro, you're right. There was tragedy all around!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

#53:

Death Toll Unknown After Jenin Raid

Date: 04-16-2002;
Publication: AP Online; Author: LAURA KING,

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While the number of dead remains a mystery, the magnitude of the destruction is an unassailable reality. In what had been a neighborhood in the middle of the camp, where concrete houses stood so close together that two people could barely pass in the alleyways, a zone roughly the size of two football fields was pounded into ruin.

But no one knows yet whether the enormous property damage _ the pulverizing of perhaps 60 homes and apartment buildings, each of them two to four stories high _ translates into a correspondingly large loss of life.

"How can you assess something like this?" said Jessica Barry of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who was in the camp on Tuesday, gesturing toward mountains of wreckage strewn with dust-covered belongings: books, shoes, cooking pots. "It's too vast for one organization to do."

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Oh hell, I believe three tragedies happened in Jenin.

1.The Israelis did not have JDAMs at their disposal to take out the Pallie terrorists from above.

While I love all the support for Israel here, let's just be careful not to go so far as to imply Israel goes house to house while the U.S. bombs. The U.S. uses JDAM's against military facilities, caves, etc., not built up areas still dense with civilians.

Military situations are rarely identical. For example, the Palestinians are even worse with bobbytrapping houses and hiding behind civilians then were the Taliban. Israel went house to house because the alternative was a real massacre of a kind neither the U.S. nor Israel would commit. Of course, the Europeans are already reacting to this like Israel did use JDAM's, and facts won't matter much over there. God bless America.