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To: AK2004 who wrote (146983)	5/7/2002 6:15:06 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576240

Suicide Bomber Destroys Israeli Club Blast Kills More Than 15, Wounds at Least 60 By EITAN HESS-ASHKENAZI .c The Associated Press RISHON LETZION, Israel (May 7) - A suicide attack shattered a pool hall in this Israeli city late Tuesday, killing more than 15 people and wounding at least 60, police said. The explosion occurred at 11:03 p.m., as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was meeting in Washington with President Bush. A police spokesman told Israel TV at least 15 people were killed in the attack 10 miles south of Tel Aviv. Al Manar TV in Lebanon said it received a claim of responsibility from the Islamic militant group Hamas. But Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Zahar said from his home in Gaza City that he could not confirm the claim, but ''if it is a martyrdom operation, it means that Israel has lost its war against the Palestinians and the Palestinian resistance has proved that it is capable of reaching the enemy everywhere.'' Since the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence erupted in September 2000, there have been nearly 60 suicide bombings. A suicide attack on March 27 that killed 28 people set off Israel's large-scale military operation in the West Bank two days later, aimed at uprooting what the Israelis called the ''terrorist infrastructure.'' The last suicide attack came on April 12 when a bomber blew herself up at a bus stop in Jerusalem, killing six people. That attack came with Secretary of State Colin Powell in the region tying to arrange an end to the violence. David Baker, an official at the prime minister's office, called Tuesday night's explosion ''another murderous attack against Israelis.'' ''It is clear that the Palestinian Authority has not given up its terror actions and has not given up its murderous path,'' he said. The blast went off at a three-story building in the heart of the industrial section of Rishon Letzion, a city that is home to some 100,000 people. Part of the ceiling on the top floor collapsed. A b sign outside read ''Sheffield Club, snooker, cafeteria.'' Meir Nitzan, the mayor of Rishon Letzion, said more than 60 people had been taken to hospitals. Yeruham Mandola, a spokesman with the Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom, said part of the three-story building had collapsed. ''Some of the wounded are trapped in the building,'' he said. Yeruham Mandola, a spokesman with the Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom, said part of the three-story building had collapsed. ''Some of the wounded are trapped in the building,'' Mandola said. An Israeli woman identified on Israel Radio as Hanit Azulai said she was on her way home when she heard ''a huge explosion.'' '' I turned the corner and I saw the whole building go up before my eyes.'' An Israeli man who gave his first name as Oren told the radio that he was near the scene at the time of the explosion. ''I just ran away from there. I don't know if it's a terror attack,'' he said. AP-NY-05-07-02 1742EDT Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

To: AK2004 who wrote (146983)	5/8/2002 10:16:32 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576240

The Big Jenin Lie The only good thing about the Jenin "massacre" was watching the propaganda being debunked in record time. by Richard Starr 05/08/2002 12:00:00 AM Richard Starr, managing editor PRECISELY A MONTH AGO, on April 8, the Palestinian news agency Wafa was reporting that Israel had committed the "massacre of the 21st century" in the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin. "Medical sources" informed Wafa of "hundreds of martyrs." This was a lie, concocted not only for local consumption--to keep the Palestinian people whipped up in a patriotic, Israel-hating frenzy--but mostly for export to the West. That same day, you could hear breathless reports of the supposed Israeli atrocities in Jenin being spread by Palestinian sources on NPR, CNN, and elsewhere. Typical was the hysteria of Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, on CNN: "There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp. . . . Just look at the TV and watch, watch what the--what the Israel forces are doing. . . . This is a war crime, clear war crime, witnessed by the whole world, preventing ambulances, preventing people from being buried. I mean this is an all-out assault against the whole population." No, this was an all-out assault on the truth. There was a pitched battle in Jenin. But the "hundreds" of martyrs were a cynical invention. The death toll was 56 Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and 23 Israeli soldiers. Unlike the celebrated foreign-dispatch lies of the 20th century--the New York Times's Walter Duranty Pulitzer-winning cover-up of Stalin's murderous Ukraine famine, say, or Herbert Matthews's 1957 reports of Senor Fidel Castro's hopes for a "democratic Cuba"--the Jenin fraud has been almost entirely inflated and then deflated in the short space of a month. I think it's safe to say that no one will win a Pulitzer for reporting on the (non-existent) "massacre of the 21st century." This was amateur-hour propaganda, and any reporter who fell for it should be mortified. Mostly that means British reporters. Full credit to the Guardian for allowing Sharon Sadeh to administer a well-deserved flogging to Fleet Street in its pages on Monday. "The Independent, the Guardian and the Times, in particular," writes Sadeh, "were quick to denounce Israel and made sensational accusations based on thin evidence, fitting a widely held stereotype of a defiant, brutal and don't-give-a-damn Israel." You can read the whole satisfying piece here. Not that American reporters were without sin. Screenwriter Daniel Jordan's description of the ax-grinding media in action is also worth a click. My favorite part is his description of this encounter between CNN's Sheila MacVicar and an Israeli soldier in Jenin: "One [Israeli] reservist sensed MacVicar's hostility. He was a soft-spoken man who approached her and introduced himself as the reserve unit's medical officer, Dr. David Zangen. He told her that when the fighting was over, they found photograph albums of children from roughly 6 years of age up through early and mid-teens. It was an album of photos of children who would be the next crop of suicide killers, with notations indicating when each of the children would be ripe. The reporter had no time for the doctor, however. "'Perhaps you should ask yourself why,'" she said, dismissing him. "'I do, madam,' he said, 'I ask myself why. I can't imagine it. I can't imagine sending one's child out to be a mass murderer who commits suicide to kill women and children.' "'Well, I can explain it,' said the reporter. 'For me it all comes down to one word, "occupation."' "'But madam,' the doctor said, 'Jenin hasn't been occupied for nine years.'" Oops. Richard Starr is a managing editor at The Weekly Standard. weeklystandard.com Link found at Message 17438685