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To: SilentZ who wrote (145180)	4/16/2002 12:40:29 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578294

>I disagree.......the media has been very responsible.....at least the ones I have been watching...CNBC, MSNBC and CNN. I have not heard one word of massacres. I have. For instance, a CNN reporter was speaking from outside of Jenin this weekend, and apparently a bit bitter over the fact that he wasn't being allowed into the city, complained that the IDF was obviously carrying out atrocities, or else they'd be letting the press in. I suspect we saw similar reports and what I got out of it is that they were suspicious because the Israelis would not let them in and that the Palestinians were claiming a massacre. Later, however, it was said that the Palestinians had claimed 500 were dead but they think the body count will be closer to 100. And let me just say, it never helps when the military gets paranoid and wants to keep the press out. Look what happened with our military in Afghanistan......there were similar complaints and people began to speculate the worse. I don't think the Israeli military are getting special treatment in this area. He said that he didn't think it was worse than the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in '82... implying that that massacre was carried out by Israel when it in fact was not, but the Palestinians said it was and the press believes it. Are you saying that Israel did not play a role in these massacres? Apparently you do, too... as that was the one event that gave Sharon his nickname that you refer to. And apparently an Israeli tribunal agreed.......they found Sharon guilty of indirectly being responsible for those massacres...or is that revisionist history as well? ted