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from The Wrap, Guardian Unlimited's round-up of today's papers. >>> 'MONSTROUS WAR CRIME' ALLEGED IN JENIN "Nothing prepares you for the smallness of a dead body," writes the Times's Middle East correspondent who, like several of her colleagues, managed to dodge Israeli snipers yesterday to inspect the wreckage of the Jenin refugee camp. "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." The other broadsheets report the same horrors. "The sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere," writes the Independent's Phil Reeves, who accuses the Israelis of trying to cover up a "monstrous war crime". They appear to confirm reports - emphatically denied by the Israeli military - that bodies were bulldozed into the ground. A Palestinian tells the Guardian's correspondent that she had seen a detailed map showing the houses the Israeli troops intended to bulldoze. Her home was occupied by soldiers who entered by punching a hole in her neighbour's wall. "I don't have another land," one of them wrote on the wall in "neat blue ink" before he left. "I saw some children who were wounded take four days to die," a Palestinian labourer tells the Times, "bleeding to death because there was no one here to tend them." The FT, in a quietly damning editorial, criticises Israel's refusal to allow access to ambulances. No reliable tally of the dead and injured is available, but at least 3,000 of Jenin's Palestinians are homeless, it says. Israel's offensive "smacks of revenge, not containment", the paper says, and the country's international standing has been "gravely damaged". Evidence of diplomatic progress is, as ever, scant. The International Herald Tribune reports that the US envoy Colin Powell now envisages peace talks without Yasser Arafat: the Palestinian leader could be replaced by an official of his choosing. Israel, meanwhile, has made its "biggest catch of the West Bank offensive" - Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader whom it accuses of plotting suicide bombings while masquerading as a politician. Ariel Sharon said his troops would pull out of Jenin and Nablus "within a week" but would remain in Nablus and Bethlehem for a while yet. * The lunar landscape that was Jenin http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,685133,00.html * Times: Inside the camp of the dead http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-268533,00.html * FT: A humanitarian emergency http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT334S7N20D&live=true * Tribune: Top Fatah leader arrested by Israel http://www.iht.com/articles/54800.html ===== Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace. Weekly peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland. Starts & ends at the colonnade between Grand & Lakeshore Avenues, 3 P.M., every Sunday. Info: (510)763-8712, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or http://www.webwm.com/LMNOP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
