Friday, May 03, 2002

Call for permanent Jenin presence. The disbanded UN fact-finding mission to Jenin calls for an international presence in Palestinian refugee camps. [BBC News: world] There already is an international presence. The UN funds and adminsters them (thus ensuring that terrorists are well fed and housed), and the Red Crescent takes care of their medical needs (and also the need for covert transportation of explosives). comment () trackback ()  1:34:49 PM     Israeli Troops Attack Hamas Hideout. Israeli troops swooped down on a Hamas hide-out in the West Bank's largest city Friday, while Orthodox Christians in biblical Bethlehem marked a somber Good Friday with no sign of a break in the siege of the Church of the Nativity, now entering its second month. [AP World News] This article from the US media does mention that Israeli casualty. Still no mention that I've seen in the BBC, though. comment () trackback ()  10:04:25 AM     Israeli drone films Palestinians faking funeral in Jenin. "In a press briefing Thursday, IDF Intelligence Officer Colonel Miri Eisen screened a four minute tape of a staged Palestinian... [The news, Uncensored.] The "corpse" gets up on his own after the "pallbearers" drop him. The article also mentions that the Palestinians are digging up bodies from a nearby cemetary in order to fake a mass grave. Ironically, a friend had suggested they might do something like that last weekend. So far my fear has not yet materialized, that the PLO might simply round up a few hundred of their own people and murder them to fake a massacre. comment () trackback ()  10:00:16 AM     Israeli officer killed as IDF arrests terror suspects in Nablus. "Battalion Commander Major Avihu Ya`akov, 24, from Kfar Hasidim, was killed Friday, as the IDF entered Nablus and arrested several... [The news, Uncensored.] The page asks why the international media haven't mentioned the Israeli officer's death, only the two Palestinians. I think it's because journalist types don't care too much about soldiers' lives, because soldiers are expected to get killed. Journalists care much more about "civilians," even if they are really terrorists. comment () trackback ()  9:50:17 AM     Indian jet crashes into office building. At least seven people are killed as an Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jet crashes into an office building in the northern state of Punjab. [BBC News: world] Apparently the cause was a malfunction. MiG-21s have been in service for decades, but most of the countries that use them are very oppresive. I wonder how many more incidents like this have happened that we never heard about? comment () trackback ()  9:37:34 AM

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