"JohnHuang2" On Israeli "Atrocities"

Fact-resistant Qana-rrhea outbreak in Media


*"Gaunt and exhausted, tormented with the worry about his missing family, Jamal Fayed yesterday wondered round the vast heap of reeking detritus," evidence of horrendous Israeli war crimes. -- The Independent

*"Israeli officials were desperately scrambling to explain the war crimes" they committed "as the international furore over the devastation rose to new heights yesterday." Evidence against Israel mounted yesterday when a British pathologist said that he suspects that allegations "that a large number of civilians died and are (still) under the rubble are highly credible." -- The Independent

*". . . the evidence of the Israeli army's absolute negligence in trying to protect civilian life is everywhere." -- The Economist

*"We are talking here of massacre, and a cover-up, of genocide." -- London Evening Standard

*"Rarely in more than a decade of war reporting from Bosnia, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, have I seen such deliberate destruction, such disrespect for human life." -- reporter for the London Times

*"Israel's campaign has actually -- has always -- been about: the irreversible conquest of (Arab) land and society." -- the Nation magazine, in a piece entitled, What Israel Has Done

*"Combating terrorism does not give a blank check to kill civilians. However just the cause is, there are illegitimate means, and the means that have been used here are illegitimate and morally repugnant." -- U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East

*The Israeli Defense Force has made a hellish battleground among the civilians . . . We are getting reports of pure horror . . . " -- Commissioner General of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency

*The international community cannot permit the wanton killings of "civilians and the destruction of the civilian infrastructure to support life. It cannot be right to wage war on civilian populations. The international community has a responsibility to protect, which it must discharge." -- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights

*"It is in Israel's interest to behave like a democracy that believes in the rule of law . . . Israelis can't trample over the rule of law, over the Geneva conventions, over what are generally regarded as acceptable norms of behaviour without it doing colossal damage to their reputation." -- European Union External Affairs Commissioner

*"I plead once again, for the respect of international law, including international humanitarian law, whenever force is used -- whether by States or by resistance movements." -- Kofi Annan to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

*"The increasing violence of the Zionist regime and their military operations against (Arabs) has shattered the hope of the (Arab youth.)" -- French ambassador to Tehran

*"What was more shocking to the world was the human tragedy caused by brutal military attacks (against innocent civilians) by Israeli forces." -- China's Permanent Representative to the U.N.

Whatever.

But! There is one problem with these "I-AM-SHOCKED-AND-REPULSED-AND-HORRIFIED" comments you've just read: They have nothing to do with Lebanon, Qana, Beirut or images of Helen Thomas. The remarks were about the "Jenin Massacre," which, though widely reported in the media, never happened.

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