Posted on 04/18/2002 8:14:41 PM PDT by Phil V.
Does you wife know you cruise on the net? There is no moral equivalency for Israel to lose. They have always held the moral high ground. Except among the Euroweenie Lefties and their sockpuppets. :)
Major Zangen said that four of the Israeli dead in Jenin were medical officers, killed while treating the wounded. He described how a six-year-old boy ran towards soldiers carrying a bag that turned out to contain a booby trap, and said that Palestinian fighters used an elderly man and a woman as human shields during the street fighting.
"And people think we are the ones who are killing the innocent," he said. "We sacrificed our own soldiers to prevent, as much as possible, damage to civilians."
Funny how the Palestinians cry foul about the lack of medics, when just a week ago the red cresent society (Palestinian ambulance corp) were complaining that the PLO was firing on them to keep them from picking up the bodies. They depend on very short term memory don't they? Israel tried to do house to house searches and arrests here, after announcing to the world and the town 24 hours in advance that the civilians needed to leave. Now the media is repeating the Palestinians saying "we were trapped in the town, we could not leave". What is with this? Do they believe that repeating a lie erases history?
Then we got to hear 5 days of "hundreds of dead rotting in the streets!", till the media went in and found 2 for the cameras. Now it is a slaughter against...buildings. All the while the media drones a humanitarian disaster beyond belief! A "refugee camp", full of multi story stone buildings? How many Americans can afford brick houses? Sheesh. What a joke!
The media whine about how the Palestinians are going to get even more enraged and kill more Jews, but strangely, the only ones whipping up the rage ARE the media. You want the Palestinians to be free quicker, you want less death, release reporting, not retoric. But then the millions of dollars of TV time would not be generated. Why the whole media industry over here would dry up and blow away. That would be a humanitarian disaster that would release a plague of leftist reporters to spread around the world! That my friends, is a human disaster of epic proportions.
Um, you're kidding, right? Haven't you read the Arab press for the past two decades or so?
Anyway, this is a hit job on Israel. Disparate quotes making the Brigadier a "liar." Of course they left the dead in the streets on purpose - it's effective propaganda. And it worked. Let's be objective about it.
For an Arab view of what happened in Jenin, from an Arab newspaper, check out this article:
Not in most areas that is for sure. But where we have bases we need for an assualt on Iran or Iraq, we do need to worry. Check this thread out:
Marine email: 5 of us held off crowd of 3,000 at US embassy in Bahrain.
The Israeli seminar posters throw up a lot of garbage in the first 30 replies or so. Scroll down to find the freeper who sent me the email. Does seem to be real.
. . . when the transfer is effected. . .
. . . when the walls are built . . .
. . . when the hate is a distant memory . . .
. . . when the Holy Land's people think more about the promise of tomorrow than the sins of yesterday I will visit and celebrate with you.
Stay safe, friend.
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And the proof is...
The Palis should stop trying to fight a war they lost a generation ago and start trying to prove they're worthy of joining the community of nations.
Just as revealing was the reaction from the European media. In the American press, you read things like: "An observer to the bomb-blast scene described a dead young girl, perhaps 10 or 12, lying on the ground with her eyes open, looking as if she was surprised." For Europe, on the other hand, the main significance of this development was that it was "unhelpful" to the "peace process". Before I'm accused of being more upset about dead Jewish than dead Muslim kids, let me say that I take people at their own estimation: in the Palestinian Authority schools, they teach their children about the glories of martyrdom; indeed, the careers guidance counsellor appears to have little information on alternative employment prospects; at social events, the moppets are dressed up as junior jihadi, with toy detonators and play bombs. It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. So does Saddam Hussein, whose government (the subject of an admiring article in this week's Spectator) gives $25,000 to the family of each Palestinian suicide bomber. So does the Arab League, which at last year's summit passed a resolution hailing the "spirit of sacrifice" of the Palestinian "martyrs" and thus licensed Wednesday's massacre. As for the "peace process", those Europeans who, just a few months ago, were urging the Americans to cease operations for Ramadan evidently feel no compunction to demand from Chairman Arafat and his dark subsidiaries any similar "bombing pause" for Passover.
In the days after September 11, we were told that Muslims had great respect for their fellow "people of the book" - ie, Jews and Christians. This ought to be so: after all, the dramatis personae of the Koran include Abraham, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus and the Virgin Mary. It's one thing to believe that the Israelis are occupiers and oppressors and that the Zionist state should not exist. But no Muslim with any understanding of his shared heritage could in good conscience blow up a Passover Seder. It marks a new low in the Palestinians' descent into nihilism - though, as usual, the silence of the imams is deafening. As for the nonchalance of the Europeans, that too should not surprise us: in my experience, the Continent's Christians, practising and nominal, find the ceremonies of Jewish life faintly creepy, notwithstanding that these were also the rituals by which their own Saviour lived.
But this year, when the Christians' solar calendar and the Jews' lunar calendar have coincided and Easter and Passover fall together, it's a safe bet that George W Bush will make the connection. The first time I ever heard him speak, he spoke openly about his faith and about Christ in a way that would be unimaginable for a British politician. He will know all the details - "the baby tried to crawl away, but it died, too".......................
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