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Originally posted by Undertoad
And since all evidence says there was no massacre, of course -- of COURSE they want military experts and not politicians to examine the evidence. (That's what this delay is all about.)
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The same tactics were successfully used to coverup the massacre of 5000 Palestinian women and children in Lebanon. The same tactics of keeping the press and UN away were also used in another rumored massacre of Egyptian prisioners in 1967.
The USS Liberty got too close to a 'rumored' massacre and was '''accidentally''' attacked by planes and then by torpedo boats for almost 1 and 1/2 hours.
The best way to coverup a massacre to is say that it is too dangerous for people who belong on the front line of the most dangerous battles - war correspondents. Anyone who says any battle is too dangerous for those correspondents is simply advocating a lie - and knows it. A battle is only too dangerous when the war correspondent says so. To claim otherwise is historically how crimes against humanity are covered up. Those who shoot at journalists - always Sharon's Israelis troops - are clearly suspect.
We want journalists from every nation in Jenin to report truth. Nothing claimed by a Likud Israel can be trusted without verification. Stalling a UN commmission is not about military men on the commission. Israel had already agreed the commission was properly staffed on Saturday. But an Israel that would be covering up crimes against humanity will stall every day - just like another war criminal - Saddam. So Likud conveniently said yes, then said no. Best way - just like Saddam did - to stall UN inspectors. Saddam - Sharon - what really is the difference? They both massacred innocent people. They both should be in The Hague for crimes against humanity. Both use same techniques to stall UN investigations. We just don't know which crimes against humanity Sharon may be guilty of this time.
Milosevik, Mlandic, et al did same stalling tactics successfully in their ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, etc. It was only when land was taken from them that we had any evidence of massacres. Massacres are so easy to coverup with enough time and if inspectors are denied access to possible grave sites.
Sharon uses same tactics. One difference. Honest countries will not invade Israel and locate mass graves. Without graves, then Undertoad can deny crimes against humanity - as if the Holocaust never existed. Without bodies, Undertoad would also have to deny the Holocaust existed - to be consistent in his logic. With enough time, Sharon can successfully coverup a massacre - as he has done previously.
We know something bad happened in Jenin. We know facts are being covered up. We just don't know how extreme and vile those crimes against humanity were.
True, we don't have any evidence of a massacre in Jenin just as we had no evidence early on of a massacre in Bosnia or Cambodia. That's right. It took years later to even learn of the Killing Fields.