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WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- After the Israeli Army launched its retaliatory strike into the Palestinian Authority-ruled West Bank in early April, the international media was filled with reports that the Israelis had possibly or probably killed hundreds, even thousands, of Palestinian civilians. The reports were later disproved and even the PA itself revised its own official figure for Palestinans killed in the fierce fighting down to only 56.

Here, United Press International traces the course of this "media myth" and the reasons it became so influential and was so widely believed.

1 posted on 05/22/2002 6:46:41 PM PDT by My Identity
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To: My Identity
For Part I, go here.

For Part II, go here.

For Part III, go here.
2 posted on 05/22/2002 6:49:31 PM PDT by My Identity
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To: My Identity
For a dose of truth:
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part I
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668601/posts
Non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence
Steyn: The UN is running out of blind eyes to turn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669411/posts
Interesting link on UN backpedaling
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part II
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669632/posts
Palestinians drop their hyped-up "massacre" charges
The Massacre That Never Was
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668572/posts
The testimony of pathological liars
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part III
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672189/posts
Jimmy "International Fiasco" Carter, has an opinion
There was No Massacre in Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668650/posts
The Elite, The Paid, The Gullible all accept Pali lies
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part IV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672160/posts
Yet more non-evidence and Pali fabrication of evidence
NY POST: THE MASSACRE THAT WASN'T
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667529/posts
Peres: There wasn't a house that wasn't booby-trapped
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part V
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673145/posts
The Pali's contradict themselves and blame it on Israel
Steyn: It's time to snap out of Arab fantasy land
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669063/posts
Some great Oriana Fallaci quotes/links as well
WSJ: The Massacre That Wasn't - Part VI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/678521/posts
Pali grave digging and UN jury rigging
Jenin's 'Massacre' Death Toll Reduced to 56
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675752/posts
Say it slow: Israelis told the truth, Palis told lies

An interesting juxtaposition of tales:
Message From An Israeli On The Front Lines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673234/posts
"Entire families exploded themselves! It was horrific."
Palestinian Fighter admits: No Massacre in Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/671903/posts
2,000 bombs and booby-traps placed in the camp
Pediatrician: terrorists used children in Jenin camp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670962/posts
Doc: IDF did everything possible to avoid civilian harm
Palestinians Booby-Trap Wheelchair in Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670810/posts
NOTE: The wheelchair was occupied!!
Jenin War Diary of a Hasidic Soldier - Part I
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672951/posts
Israeli citizen-soldier describes what went on in Jenin
Massacre Claims Unsupported by Pali Fighters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675129/posts
Pali eyewitnesses all support the Israeli version
Jenin War Diary of a Hasidic Soldier - Part II
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/678298/posts
There is no army as humane as the IDF
Palestinian fighter's version of the Jenin battle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672896/posts
Pali Plan: Trap Israeli soldiers, then blow them up

Yellow Journalism: Sensationalism, Yes!   Truth, No!
How the L.A. Times and CNN Distorted Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/681552/posts
First, you start with an agenda...
Jenin: The Big Lie. Fighting the Media War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/667296/posts
World media falls for Goebbels's 'Big Lie' ... Again
The Media and 'The Massacre'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668719/posts
Quick to report fantasy, slow to correct errors
Atrocities of the British Press
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669206/posts
Huge amounts of ink devoted to unverified Pali tales
Reporters Back Down From 'Massacre' Reports
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668509/posts
World press forced to face the truth: No Massacre
The Big Jenin Lie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/679694/posts
Putrid Pali Propaganda Promptly Panned - GO FR!

We're from the UN.   We're Here to Help.
The Overseers of Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675737/posts
Camps run by UN are centers for terror bombings
U.N.'s Point Man In Jenin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673541/posts
Arafat's militia gangs rely on Mr. Roed-Larsen
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675043/posts
Surprise! The UN has a not-so-hidden agenda
The Jenin Probe Ends
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675737/posts
UN unhappy about Israel's possible exhoneration

And so, in conclusion:
The 'Jenin Massacre' Hoax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/677148/posts
Living in a world of monstrous moral inversion
The Phantom Massacre
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672761/posts
War Crimes in Jenin were committed by the Palis
Terrorists admit they carried out atrocities
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/679306/posts
Fanatics brutalize women, children, old men
Jenin's War Criminals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/675340/posts
What the Palestinians did was the real war crime

3 posted on 05/22/2002 6:51:09 PM PDT by My Identity
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To: My Identity
If staged massacres got the USA to kill Christian Serbs on behalf of Albanian Muslims why should it not work in getting the USA to bomb Jews on behlaf of Muslim Palestinians?? "Berliner Zeitung" Disputes Massacre Claims: Racak a Hoax
4 posted on 05/22/2002 8:57:48 PM PDT by Spar
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To: My Identity
Thanks for continuing your excellent work! I disagree with the writer only in one matter:

The BBC uncritically swallowed the Massacre Myth.

The BBC (et al.) didn't "swallow" the Massacre Myth; the BBC perpetrated the Massacre Myth. These characters are not passive; for them, lying is an active matter.

Allegations of War

5 posted on 05/22/2002 9:44:39 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: My Identity
Thanks for posting these up. It's great ammo to use on the lefties.
6 posted on 05/22/2002 10:25:44 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: My Identity;Yehuda
Everyone knows the Arab Muslims lie. To lie is no dishonor in their culture, though they definitly know it is a dishonor in ours, and that our expectation is that egregious lies, easily disproved, won't be told, in order to avoid shame. Lying is no shame to the Arabs. Getting caught in a lie is no shame to Arabs.

Which brings us to the Left-leaning media around the world.

Socialists are ideologues walking backwards while facing forwards. Backwards toward totalitarian Communism. And it's a fact that Communists have the same attitude about lying that Muslims do, except that when they're caught, they tell bigger lies to cover up their lies.

So the Left-leaning media lies easily and often, targeting those lies to destroy the U.S., and any country allying itself with the U.S., especially Israel, is gonna get caught smack in the middle of those lies.

The Arabs and the Lefties both are criminals, and support each other when they have a common enemy, usually us.

In America, we know all this. It comes to us with our mother's milk. We aren't the dummies the Arabs and socialists wish for.

9 posted on 05/23/2002 10:27:49 PM PDT by WaterDragon
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