Annan to Disband U.N. Mission to Jenin

Thanks for posting the pictures of Yassir and Kofi being "cozy".

21 posted on 04/30/2002 4:27:40 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

To: DontMessWithMyCountry

You just lucky I didn't post the pic of Kofi as lawn jockey!

22 posted on 04/30/2002 4:30:31 PM PDT by dennisw

Translation: the Palestinians have concluded that even a loaded "fact-finding" mission by the UN won't support their claims, so they are abandoning it before it backfires on them.

The Israelis blocked the UN fact-finding mission.

23 posted on 04/30/2002 4:35:16 PM PDT by ThreeOfSeven

While I want to accept the Israelis recounting of what happened in Jenin, I wish some international body could be relied upon to give some account. I truly suspect that "innocents" may have been buried . . . but not necessarily because of any malice on the bad of the Israelis. I mean, from from I've read, civilians were either forced or chose to remain in Jenin and were pinned down in firefights, etc. I find it entirely rational that the Israelis asked people to leave repeatedly (why wouldn't they? . . . fewer people would mean fewer bombers, fewer bystanders getting hit, fewer killers in town to kill their own soldiers).

That said, we all know that 80% of the developed world (the Muslim world not being developed) will construe this as Israel covering up. Is the world truly so polarized and politicized over this that no independent review is possible? How about some Australian experts? (I never hear Australians talk about this conflict, maybe they would be viewed as independent.) I guess one thing that has been bothering me from the beginning is the Israelis initial explanation for not letting journalists, etc. in - that it was too dangerous and there were still too many booby traps. What?

Wouldn't that have proven the point? A few EU journalists blasted to bits by booby traps may have been an indication that the Israelis were dealing with some very bad apples and that bulldozing may have been the best alternative. Why in the world would the Israelis want to sanitize everything unless something ... uh ... less than broadcastable had happened? Now, don't get me wrong, I don't know what happened (and the pictures seem to tell an interesting story of very localized destruction), but the Israelis have been handling this like total pr fools. Have they just given up on the pr battle?

24 posted on 04/30/2002 4:42:26 PM PDT by hoyaloya

26 posted on 04/30/2002 4:46:22 PM PDT by spqrzilla9

The Palestinians were reburying corpses to inflate the number of dead, and passing around $$$$$ as bribes to get people to give false testimony. And the UN is a rogues gallery. To Hell with them.

27 posted on 04/30/2002 4:48:42 PM PDT by veronica

.... I truly suspect that "innocents" may have been buried....

There are no innocents. The whole concept of innocence is bogus.

28 posted on 04/30/2002 4:50:01 PM PDT by bert

You have misrepresented the Israel court's decision, unsurprisingly.

30 posted on 04/30/2002 4:58:09 PM PDT by spqrzilla9

You are all mixed up. As usual. The IDF wanted to bury bodies as a matter of sanitation. The Palestinians wanted to use the bodies for PR purposes. Of course Israel gave in to the Palestinians out of decency. I think the UN should investigate the Passover Massacre, speaking of Massacres.

31 posted on 04/30/2002 4:59:05 PM PDT by veronica

Sheesh...the Republican congressman from AZ (can't recall name, sounded great on Fox yesterday) has it totally right: there's way TOO MUCH emphasis on Israel and what the Israelis are doing and not nearly enough questioning by the media and the UN on what the Palestinians are doing. Why isn't the UN nearly as interested in the homicide bombers and Arafat? Ridiculous. If the Security Council "imposes" an "inquiry committee" on Israel it signals it's time for every liberty, freedom-loving country to finally kiss that piece-of-cr*p institution buh bye!!

32 posted on 04/30/2002 4:59:25 PM PDT by PLK

Yeah, and the Israeli Supreme Court

You know something, Stealthy? You have a serious problem :)).

33 posted on 04/30/2002 5:03:26 PM PDT by Cachelot

Is the world truly so polarized and politicized over this that no independent review is possible?

Think of it as analogous to Cuba offering to monitor our "re-counts" during the failed attempt by the Dems to steal the Florida election (which they actually did, as I recall). This makes as much sense as that. Why would Israel EVER allow some bogus "committee" from the U.N., made up of at least one Syrian by the way (Syrians are sworn enemies of Israel), to come into their democratic, civilized nation, and make any pronouncements of right or wrong to them? Especially since Israel is the nation being attacked by homocidal, suicidal, fanatic Islamists???? I just don't understand this attitude. Sorry.

35 posted on 04/30/2002 5:04:40 PM PDT by PLK

Palestinians and Israelis share the gene that makes them act irrationally at the most inopportune times. Jenin is not something I'd risk economic sanctions over with an ecomomy already in the dump.

The wise move would be to accept the A-holes from the UN, and get slammed—rather than be made to look like you did something much, much worse and reallyget slammed.

Now the Palestinians can say with certitude that the IDF did a Mongol number on the camp and likely make it stick. A debatable record is better than an undebatable myth.

36 posted on 04/30/2002 5:07:31 PM PDT by lavrenti

To: lavrenti;Stealthy;Admin moderator

Palestinians and Israelis share the gene that makes them act irrationally

Don't tell me. There's a full moon tonite ...

37 posted on 04/30/2002 5:11:16 PM PDT by Cachelot

Your post gets removed by the Mods and you repost it? That's certainly respectful of the forum. BTW - which Israelis do you mean in your post above? The Arab Israelis? The Bedouins? The South African immigrants?

39 posted on 04/30/2002 5:19:11 PM PDT by veronica

When do you get off duty, Cachelot? 6 PST or 7 PST?

Obsessing, are we? Sorry, Stealthy :). Not for you to know. Go play on Polinco :))).

40 posted on 04/30/2002 5:22:05 PM PDT by Cachelot

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