"But as is alleged to be the case at Qana, initial civilian-death claims -- Palestinains originally said hundereds had been killed -- were exaggerated. Even among the 52 non-combatants believed to have actually died in the fighting, later investigation revealed that many had perished, not at the hands of Israeli troops, but in the blasts of booby-traps set by Palestinian terrorists themselves to defend their hideouts.
Despite this, international media and organizations such as the Red Cross and the UN quickly accepted the claims by terror organizations of widespread civilian losses at Bethlehem and Jenin, and never bothered to correct the record when facts proved their reports unjustified."
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friday, August 04, 2006
"Qana, revisited":