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Originally posted by Undertoad
The official story is that, if the folks involved are not on the terrorist list, they can come out whenever they like.
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Tell that to Palestinian policemen, not terrorists, who early on sought refuge in the church. Long ago when the invasion of Palestine began, Israelis captured five Palestinian policemen and executed them with shots to the side of the head. Is this true? It was reported as accurate from a western news service. But does truth even matter? Those Palestinian policemen saw Israelis previously murder other comrades (before the invasion) only because they were Palestinian policemen. Now one from The Cellar will tell those policemen that it is safe to leave the church? Who are they going to believe? History, or the word of Israelis commanded by Ariel Sharon?
I cannot blame any Palestinian for staying inside that church - regardless of what they have done previously. Just down the street from Arafat is an American woman whose carpets were pissed on by Israeli troops after she claimed to be American. There is nothing trustworthy or honorable about current Israeli thugs because they are commanded by and reflect the attitudes of the mass murder and now outright "liar directly in the face of George Jr" - Ariel Sharon.
Lets keep this in perspective. Anywhere that an Israeli soldier goes, a war correspondent must be permitted - as is standard in wars far more danageous. War correspondents and their resulting honesty are historically the enemy of Ariel Sharon. But some would claim, despite facts, that Palestine is too dangerous for war correspondents. True. Israelis were doing most shooting at correspondents. Only Israelis killed war correspondents. Israelis openly shot up the NBC News amored car knowing full well who was in it. The only significant threat to war correspondents were the attitude of Sharon and the actions of his thugs - soldiers that are racists.
It is not too dangerous to keep Palestinian women and children trapped in the same 'too dangerous' location? Of course. To many Israeli commanders, all Palestinians are the enemy - even though reality says otherwise. Israelis fear to have journalists see facts until the battlefield has been sanitized - as demonstrated by comments from a Norwegian observer. And so The Ecomomist notes of a building, being used for dead bodies, then collapsed by Israeli D-9s. The Israelis were reported removing the bodies. Why? Is it really too dangerous for war correspondents - or too dangerous for Israel if the world sees evidence of a massacre?
Israel lists something like 48 Palestinians dead in Jenin. However, testimonies I have read in so many western publications - each event clearly different - amounts to about the same number. Have I read of every Palestinian death? And were so many of those women and children part of the 95% who were combatants - as Israel claims?
One thing is clear. Information from the Israeli side has no credibility unless it can be independently verified. This is what has changed with the election of a dichead. Israel is not just a racist nation. Its government statements are no longer credible. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management - which is why it is not safe for any Palestinian to leave that church without an international escort - of war correspondents.
Remember those war correspondents - people with so much credibility that Israel's Likud government fears them.