A successful ambush resulted on the
deaths of 12 Israelis and the wounding of a larger number. In the aftermath of the raid, dozens of
Palestinians, including some of the attackers, died and were wounded and the
systematic destruction of up to 100 houses has been reported.
The public has received at lease three
different accounts of this event.
Is it possible to know who is telling the truth about the 15th of
November massacre in
both suggest, if not actually stating outright, that those Israelis killed were
civilian “settlers” who were being protected by the military as they returned to
their homes. This is the report
Americans heard, and most people have never heard anything
different.
The Palestinian account is quite
different. The Palestinian Chronicle, a partisan but usually factual Internet
journal, claims those killed were all members of the Israel Defense Force–in
other words, the military–who were in a corridor within
Arba, having escorted the “settlers” home, and that the ?civilian? settlers were
not even attacked.
The third story came from the same
source as the fist, The Israeli ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and it does
not match the first story. The MFA
switched stories. Who is not
telling the truth, and what is the significance of the lie?
To settle the issue, We Hold These
Truths has examined the official
2002
Government WebPages ( www.idf.il ), which
appears to set the matter straight.
In a government-released story entitled “IDF commanders lead the way,”
the Israeli government admits that nine of the twelve killed, who all had been
called civilians, were in fact military personnel, including a Colonel. The story, couched in heroic terms,
admits the soldiers were doing their duty in conducting the settler?s home,
because “the people of Kiryat Arba had received permission to pray in the Cave
of the Patriarchs.” It names Col.
Dror Weinberg among the dead and further states: “The terror attack in
government lists the names and ranks of 11 killed of which 8 had military
rank. Later releases form the
Israeli press identifies the remaining three men were in fact armed and trained
security guard for the ?settlement.?
But if those killed were on military on
duty within enemy (Palestinian) territory where Kiryat Arba is located, how then
can those who won the battle be “terrorists,” as the IDF claims?
To get a clearer picture, let us look
at the story of this event as presented in the Palestinian Chronicle, where Ali
Abunimah, wrote a November 17, 2002
Letter to NPR News:
?NPRs reporting on the Palestinian
attack in
inaccurate I have come across. As
late as Sunday morning, NPR was still reporting as fact utterly false Israeli
government claims of an ambush and massacre of ?Jewish worshippers” in the
occupied
Bank
“In fact, what occurred on Friday was a
carefully planned ambush against Israeli occupation forces, after all the
settlers had returned safely to the colony of Kiryat Arba. All reports now indicate that the 12
killed the all fourteen injured Israelis were also armed
combatants.?
“Even after this became clear, NPR
continues to report false information and has failed to correct its earlier
mistakes. “On Saturday evenings
Weekend All Things Considered, host Joe Palca interviewed NPR reporter Jackie
Northam in
Neither in the introduction, nor in their chat did either Palca or
Northam point out what had by then been known since early morning — that all
twelve of those killed in the attack were armed occupation troops or armed,
combatant settlers.?
“Palca repeated the false charge that
“Palestinian gunmen” had opened fire on “Jewish worshippers walking home from
religious services,” and Northam, who was in
feel, and the understanding Israelis have for the harsh measures taken in the
occupied territories by the Israeli government. ?
“Linda Gradsteins report on Weekend
Edition Sunday repeated the completely debunked claims. Gradstein claimed that “Fridays attack
has chilled the Israeli public,” and her report featured Israeli journalist
David Horowitz, claiming, again utterly falsely, that those who were attacked
were “people coming back from prayers” and that they were “attacked as they were
walking to their homes.”
“All the evidence indicates that this
is a complete lie, manufactured by the Israeli foreign ministry for the
consumption of a complacent and unprofessional media. NPR has swallowed it whole.” -end quote
Palestine Chronicle
The Electronic Intifada also published
an expose of
worshippers in
pro-Israel) newspaper account, which stated:
“THE ATTACK IN
2002
“The attack actually began several
minutes after all of the worshippers had already returned safely to Kiryat
Arba. The twelve Israeli casualties
in
that residents of Kibbutz Metzer were, nor did they die in the same manner in
which young settlers were murdered in Hermesh. Those killed Friday were killed in
combat. All of the victims were
armed fighters, who were more or less trained. They fell victim to a well-planned
ambush that included both machine-gun fire and grenades, which trapped them in a
compromising situation they found hard to overcome. There is a vast difference between what
happened on Friday night and the horrific massacres carried out by Palestinian
terrorists in civilian settlements.” end The Electronic Intifada
-http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article878.shtml).
THE
CONCLUDE:
“There is simply no possible excuse for
NPR, which, unlike so many other news organizations, actually sent a reporter to
spin for so long. If your reporters
are just going to read out Israeli government press releases, that can be done
much more cheaply from a studio in Washington.” -end PC
The facts are indisputable and are not
even contested by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They lied, there is no other
explanation. The techniques used by
the MFA in describing what was, in fact, a very important military encounter,
was exposed in several articles written by your editor. We showed that the MFA consistently
implies that any and all Israelis killed are civilians, and this news is
invariably carried by the prostitute US press as fact. Then, sometimes as little as a half day
later, the Israeli Defense Forces comes clean with names and ranks of those
killed, as any army must do. Gut
the truth is rarely repeated in the
story as the “facts,” believed by American readers.
There is nothing unusual in this story,
except for the massive Israeli losses, which are among the largest we can find
in the Israeli records. Shame on
National Public Radio for spreading a lie that benefits
Now
retaliation against Palestinians everywhere. Duped Americans will say, “Well, dont
they have a right to defend themselves?”
In fact, it is the Palestinians who are defending themselves against the
usurpers and thieves of their land, as well as those who defend them. It is the IDF that is spreading terror,
as is shown from the following accounts of outright retribution carried out
against the innocent.
The following account of massive and
brutal retribution from The Palestine Monitor, only one day after the
Americans:
?ISRAELI FORCES KILL PALESTINIANS IN
?Israeli forces were out in full force
yesterday and today, killing seven Palestinians in
are expected as the Israeli military plans a retaliation against civilians for
yesterdays attack against the occupying army and illegal Israeli settlers in
At about
shelled and fired randomly at civilian homes just east of
According to eyewitnesses,
her laundry to dry, when tanks approached on her street. The minute she saw the tanks, she tried
to escape by running to the stairs.
Before she could get to the stairs, she
was shot in the chest.
There is now total curfew throughout
with Israeli snipers occupying houses in the city and in Balata refugee
camp.
Israeli forces continue to divide the
city into two parts (west and east), with numerous checkpoints between them
denying residents free access.
Ambulances are not permitted to move between the eastern and western part
of
Also in
yesterday shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers, killing him instantly. He had
been throwing stones at Israeli tanks.
Jenin
Ibrahim Bassam Asadeh, 16, was killed
at about 7.30 this morning as he was leaving Jenin refugee camp, after clashes
with Israeli forces trying to enter the camp. Ibrahim was a member of Islamic
Jihad. He was killed by live
ammunition shots to his chest and abdomen.
Two others were injured in the attack.
Ibrahims 16-year-old brother, Abdel
Karim, was killed two months ago in the Israeli invasion of Jenin. Ibrahims
7-year-old cousin, Bassam, was also killed by Israeli forces in Jenin in June
this year, three days after his grandmother died of shock when Israeli forces
invaded her house.
Mahmoud Sulaiman Obeid, 32, was
assassinated yesterday evening in his home when the Israeli forces entered the
house and executed him in front of his parents. According to eyewitnesses, the
soldiers forced his father at gunpoint to drag the body of his son out of the
house before they took the body away.
After yesterdays attack against the
occupying army and Jewish settlers illegally residing in
clashes with Israeli forces in the area — it is thought that they were the
individuals responsible for the attacks on the illegal Jewish settlers. It is not yet known exactly how they
died, as the Israeli forces have taken their bodies.
After the incident, Israeli forces
entered the entire city of
at homes. No injuries were reported. Currently there is a complete curfew
throughout
entire city. There are fears that there will be a massive Israeli operation in
the city tonight.? -end quote from
Palestine Monitor.
WHTT EDITOR
RETURNS TO CONCLUDE:
Again, shame on the prostituted US
Press, which facilitated more murder and tragedy by their complicity in this
huge lie that can not be excused.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a propaganda arm of the
killed, but they caused the story to be circulated that all killed were
civilians because it serves their purpose.
Then, once the misinformation has reached the American public, the
corrected story was allowed to surface in Israle, but the false images are never
corrected in the eyes of the American public.
If this was an isolated incident we
could conclude that the MFA fooled the American press, but this is standard
practice. The Zionist US press must
want to be fooled. This same game
is replayed time and time again when there is a bombing in
which is clearly the majority of cases.
We hold these truths published detailed articles about IDF propaganda
involving several bombing incidents that were painted with the same brush. You can read these accounts on our
Website, one we dubbed
LIAR,
LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
lies because lying is their business; but why does the American press supports
these lies, always without question?
Because our press, like
dominated.
Further stories about the massive
retribution by the Israeli military against civilians, including bulldozing
dozens of homed of unrelated parties are chilling in their brutality is all
available to those who go looking for it, but are rarely heard by
Americans. This writer?s first
experience with the
There, in my hotel room, I watched an early morning CNN International TV
report showing two smoking Palestinian ambulances, destroyed by Israeli Abram
tanks on the
civilians from an Israeli Missile raid.
The once blue vehicles were hardly recognizable. The Israelis had destroyed them before
dawn with US weapons of mass destruction.
All passengers were killed, including a 57 year-old
Doctor.
But this CNN
International report was not shown in the
in fact that only in
sound like the ambulances were to blame for their own destruction. In
going ?too fast?, and in the
transporting terrorists.? Later I
was shown an ambulance bone yard in
were salvaged.
Palestinian?s medical facilities and terrorizing the staffs. The
up.
