Re: [CTRL] Grisly evidence of a war crime in Jenin

[Edward Britton]

A couple of days ago, I remember being puzzled about the relatively recent flurry of clearly (in my mind at least) "anti-Israeli" or anti-"Semitic" e-mail flowing through this list.  People whose posts I'd been reading for years--people whom I would "normally" have classified as being "liberal" and consequently pro-Israeli--were taking a disturbing turn toward the "classic" dislike or even hatred of the Jewish state and it's people in a manner which I had grown accustomed to seeing as stereotypically "right wing."  I have seen this turn not only among members of this list, but also among a few of my closest friends.   

I was at a loss to explain or understand this phenomenon--until reports such as the one excerpted below began to find their way into the mainstream media.  I may remain perplexed about the ancient hatreds between Israelis and Arabs in general, but I am no longer confused about the cause for the current outrage.  Israel has become the monster it most reviled.  The victim of great horrors has become the perpetrator great horrors.


Other accounts:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-268533,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$IWRB3RYAAF115QFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2002/04/16/wmid16.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/04/16/ixport.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,685133,00.html


At 09:54 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:

-Caveat Lector-

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413

Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime
>From Phil Reeves in Jenin
16 April 2002

excerpt

A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has
finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of the
Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands of
people are still living amid the ruins.
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Edward   ><+>

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