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The soldier in question had only a few block region of destruction to view, therefore, since he admits he was in the the thick of it -- and since he freely admits he did not see even tens of bodies -- I suspect the bodies he smelled were of combatants.

Your conclusion doesn't follow. The bodies could just as easily have been non-combatants killed by Israeli fire or buried in the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli missiles and bulldozers. When UN special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen went to Jenin he described some of what he saw:

"The stench of decaying corpses are all over the place."

"I saw personally about a 12-year-old boy being dug out, his body totally destroyed."

"I saw two brothers digging under the rubble for their father and their brothers."

"There are people all over the place digging with their hands looking for their relatives and dear ones."

Unless you and your ilk can produce hard evidence of this so-called 'massacre', all you are engaging in is a smear campaign.

The tally of dead, missing, and captive Palestinians in Jenin (and elsewhere) is still being compiled. The search for dead and injured continues. Hopefully, Israel will stop hindering aid workers and medical teams and extend full and immediate cooperation to investigators and the UN fact-finding mission. Let the chips fall where they may.

You could come up with the same anecdotal 'evidence' from any and I repeat ANY war EVER.

*THIS* is your evidence of a 'massacre'????

Scientifically trained, you are not. That much is evident.

The tally of dead, missing, and captive Palestinians in Jenin (and elsewhere) is still being compiled. The search for dead and injured continues. Hopefully, Israel will stop hindering aid workers and medical teams and extend full and immediate cooperation to investigators and the UN fact-finding mission. Let the chips fall where they may.

Very fine. You hold up your list of armed combatants (as such are defined in the 3rd Geneva Convention of 1947) during a lawful war, and then let us hold that list up against the list of known dead and wounded civilians killed in terrorist attacks in Israel.

The body of a 12 year old totally destroyed? Maybe he was following in the footsteps of his 10 year old "brother" and destroyed his own body. Seems to me that if you can get a 10 year old to blow themselves up...you can get a 12 year old to fire a gun...so that proves nothing. Did the "envoy" also tour the areas where Israeli children's bodies were destroyed?

In a war...it doesn't matter how old the person firing the weapon at you is...you kill them. Only here does it seem to matter. I will have a little more respect for your beloved "UN inspectors" when they become equally outraged at the thousands of christians who have been killed (read: massacred) in the sudan and somalia. Amazing how this doesn't get them fired up but a gun battle in which collateral damage was the result (because the gunmen were hiding behind the skirts of women and the toys of children) does!

When you start firing rpg's and machine guns from a house...you then invite destruction of said house. When you fire from behind women and children...and then those women and children die...it is YOUR fault...not the other guy.

Again...I will give ear to what these bozos say when they show me they can be unbiased. That means going into the sudan and helping the thousands or tens of thousands (and I am being conservative in the estimate) who have been slaughtered because of their religion. And here you sit screaming about a few hundred (and not even that....) who died in a combat zone because their "men" were using them as human shields...which BTW seems to happen a lot in the arab world. "Milk Factories" and "hospitals" abound.

Cowards.