Unilateral attacks

Undertoad · 04-29-2002, 10:39 PM

Just keep going man. The latest to weigh in today were the folks from Human Rights Watch. I assume you have some respect for this organization. They're on scene specfically out to find rights abuses and to document everything as carefully as possible.

They count 52 bodies. That's 2 less than Israel's own count. And 1448 less than the highest estimate given by Palestinian spokesmen... and 448 less than the number repeated most often by Palestinian spokesmen.

They do have rights concerns, and some of them are fairly serious. But... no massacre. They say 20 civilian deaths. I suppose someone has worked out a working definition of that word.

The more you know...

That Egyptian weekly report from the engineer said 50 houses were booby-trapped. HRW says the booby traps are definitely Palestinian in origin. HRW says Israeli forces destroyed 150 houses. That satellite photo looks about right. Are things starting to make sense yet? No massacre.

04-29-2002, 10:39 PM	#15
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Just keep going man. The latest to weigh in today were the folks from Human Rights Watch. I assume you have some respect for this organization. They're on scene specfically out to find rights abuses and to document everything as carefully as possible. They count 52 bodies. That's 2 less than Israel's own count. And 1448 less than the highest estimate given by Palestinian spokesmen... and 448 less than the number repeated most often by Palestinian spokesmen. They do have rights concerns, and some of them are fairly serious. But... no massacre. They say 20 civilian deaths. I suppose someone has worked out a working definition of that word. The more you know... That Egyptian weekly report from the engineer said 50 houses were booby-trapped. HRW says the booby traps are definitely Palestinian in origin. HRW says Israeli forces destroyed 150 houses. That satellite photo looks about right. Are things starting to make sense yet? No massacre.

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