Al-Ayyam is a pro-Fatah paper and will print anything if its
paid enough, much like other organs of Zionist propaganda I
suppose. Its cute that you talk about Fatah as if it won any
elections and is somehow representative of Palestinian interests.
Everybody knows Abbas is the chief of the Palestinian Judenrat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenrat
On the issue of Hamas using human shields, again, we have the
satanic Israeli thinkers to thank for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields#Gaza_and_the_West_Bank
"Amnesty International[3]
and Human Rights Watch[4]
assert the Israel Defense Forces used Palestinian civilians as human
shields during the 2002 Battle of Jenin. The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reported that "for a long period of time
following the outbreak of the second intifada, particularly during
Operation Defensive Shield, in
April 2002, the IDF systematically used Palestinian civilians as
human shields, forcing them to carry out military actions which
threatened their lives".[5][6]
The practice was outlawed by the Supreme Court of Israel in 2005 but
human rights groups insist the IDF continues to use it, although
they acknowledge the number of instances has dropped
sharply.[5][7]In
February 2007, Associated Press
Television News released footage of an incident involving Sameh
Amira, a 24-year-old Palestinian. The video appears to show the
West Bank resident serving as a human shield
for a group of Israeli soldiers.[7][8]
The video can be seen on the
AP website. The Israeli Army launched a criminal investigation
into the incident.[7]
In April 2007, the Israeli army suspended a commander after the
unit he was leading was accused of using Palestinians as human
shields in a West
Bank raid.[9]
In November 2006, Palestinian women volunteered as human shields
to allow the escape of Hamas gunmen
from Israeli forces in Beit
Hanoun in the Gaza
Strip. The armed Palestinians had barricaded themselves in a
mosque, which was surrounded by Israeli troops and
tanks. According to a Hamas spokeman, a crowd of women gathered
outside the mosque in response to an appeal on the local radio
station for women to protect the Hamas fighters. The Palestinian
gunmen escaped by dressing in women's clothes and hiding in the
large group.[10]"
OK. Now, let's talk about the Jenin Massacre.
The counting of casualties: Numbers from between 500-800
and16,000 people slaughtered.
The UN authors scoured through
second and third-hand resources, never visiting the camp or talking
to eyewitnesses. A report with such resources can hardly be
described as conclusive. (The
UN is repeating the same way of issuing its reports on the
Operation Lead Cast.)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
released the first report on the Jenin massacre but only after
seven days of investigation.
Many media reports on Jenin were biased against Israel,
inflating casualty numbers. TV screens around the world featured
Palestinian eyewitnesses who gave 'exact' details of blood-curdling
actions by IDF.
It took months of investigations for human rights org and UN to
finally issue reports to refute those Palestinian claims of a
massacre. There was no
massacre, no ethnic cleansing, no intentional destruction of
hospitals.
Final count:
Palestinian officials put the death toll at 56 only.
Human rights watch - 52 killed. While focusing
mainly on IDF actions(as usual), the report also stated
that:
Palestinian gunmen did
endanger civilians in the camp by using it as a base for planning
and launching attacks, planting IED within the camp and
intermingling with the civilians during the
comflict.
