Re: virus: U.N. Jenin Report "Flawed" - HumanRightsWatch

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 12:32:29 MDT


On 4 Aug 2002 at 10:58, Mermaid . wrote:

> 1.IDF entered Jenin(which is not Israeli territory).
>
More suicide bombers had come from Jenin that any other Palestinian
city. This torrent had to be stopped at the source; the factories that
build the explosive belts, and the recruiters of suicide bombers.
>
> 2.Palestinian civilians were killed.
>
The incursion was occasioned by the many suicide bombings in which
Israeli civilians were killed.
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> 3.Soldiers cannot have an expectation of safety when they wage war.
>
Neither can there be a guarantee that noncombatants who remain in a
war zone will not be endangered.
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> 4.Civilians do.
>
If Israel's intention was to kill noncombatant Palestinians, they could
have done a much better job of it. I believe that the final Palestinian
count in Jenin was 33 combatants and 19 non.
>
>5.Israel is the aggressor and oppressor at Jenin.
>
It did what it felt it had to do to dam the river of suicide bombers issuing
from there.
>
>
>
> From: joedees@bellsouth.net
> Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: U.N. Jenin Report "Flawed" - HumanRightsWatch
> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 12:14:19 -0500
>
> Of course this rises to the level of religio-political dogma with
> some: there MUST have been a massacre in Jenin, I intensely feel it in
> my bones, WHEN/WHEREVER Israel launches an incursion, a massacre
> occurs, it MUST occur, its just GOTTA BE that way, so any report that
> disagrees MUST be flawed. I got an idea! Let's go ahead anf
> investigate, so we can report that the other heretical report IS
> flawed, and that a massacre DID occur, as MUST be the case!
>
> ALSO
> [Joe Dees]This perspective would be more convincing had there not been
> TV news clips of Palestinian fighters in Jenin before the battle
> bragging about all the ambushes and booby traps they had set and how
> they were looking forward to killing Israeli soldiers (something they
> subsequently did, with the ais of ambushes and booby traps).
>
>
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