http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/ Comments - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:47:16 +0000 http://greywolf.instablogs.com http://greywolf.instablogs.com Michael Davison
Take, for example, Dir Yassin: in 1990, Bir Zeit University (a Palestnian University) published a study declaring that Dir Yassin was not a ”massacre”, but a pitched battle with high casualties on both sides. This was the result of a 5-year study in which hundreds of Arab survivors and witnesses were interviewed. After publication of the study in Arabic and an abstract in English on Bir Zeit’s web site, the PLO demanded that it be removed. A 1998 documentary by the BBC (no friend of Israel) reached the same conclusion independently.

The ”Jenin Massacre” of 2002: Initial Palestinian reports of casualties claimed 5,500 civilians killed, but independent investigations by the UN and Human Rights organizations found a total of 56 dead, of whom less than 20 were civilians.

There’s no need to lie about the scope of deaths in the Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 10 million Christians from Eastern Europe and Russia, almost 1 million gypsies, several thousand Catholic priests and Christian ministers from all the conquered countries and tens of thousands of partisans and civilians murdered in the Nazi-conquered countries make it the most infamous wholesale murder spree in history.

On the other hand, comparing Palestinians claims against actual comfirmed casualties over the years shows an exaggeration factor of at least 2, and in some isolated cases a factor of as much as 100 (like the ”Jenin Massacre” that never happened). Parenthetically, more Palestinians have killed Palestinians over the years than the IDF has– although here, too, there are many lies in Palestinian claims. Hundreds of cases investigated have shown deaths initially claimed to be due to IDF actions have turned out to be ”work accidents” (incompetent bomb-makers killing themselves and others), internal feuds, extralegal lynchings of ”suspected collaborators”, honor killings and even natural causes totally unrelated to any political situation.

If the Palestinians were suffering a real Holocaust, there would be no need for them to lie in this manner. Making such a comparision, as this employee did, is just perpetuating lies invented for propaganda purposes - while perhaps giving visitors the impression that his words represented the museum’s official policy. Making comparisons to the Armenian genocide by the Turks or the genocide in Somalia would have been more appropriate– and much more accurate.

Now before you ask, no, I am not denying that Palestinians get killed by the IDF. What I AM saying is that the Palestinians often exaggerate the numbers and lie about the circumstances– and this has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt too many times to be debatable.]]> I would agree with the firing for only one reason: while the Holocaust is throughly documented with tens of thousands of pictures, thousands of hours of newsreel films on camp liberations and several hundred thousand video memoirs of survivors, even the examples in this article of Palestinian suffering have erros or outright lies.



Take, for example, Dir Yassin: in 1990, Bir Zeit University (a Palestnian University) published a study declaring that Dir Yassin was not a ”massacre”, but a pitched battle with high casualties on both sides. This was the result of a 5-year study in which hundreds of Arab survivors and witnesses were interviewed. After publication of the study in Arabic and an abstract in English on Bir Zeit’s web site, the PLO demanded that it be removed. A 1998 documentary by the BBC (no friend of Israel) reached the same conclusion independently.



The ”Jenin Massacre” of 2002: Initial Palestinian reports of casualties claimed 5,500 civilians killed, but independent investigations by the UN and Human Rights organizations found a total of 56 dead, of whom less than 20 were civilians.



There’s no need to lie about the scope of deaths in the Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 10 million Christians from Eastern Europe and Russia, almost 1 million gypsies, several thousand Catholic priests and Christian ministers from all the conquered countries and tens of thousands of partisans and civilians murdered in the Nazi-conquered countries make it the most infamous wholesale murder spree in history.



On the other hand, comparing Palestinians claims against actual comfirmed casualties over the years shows an exaggeration factor of at least 2, and in some isolated cases a factor of as much as 100 (like the ”Jenin Massacre” that never happened). Parenthetically, more Palestinians have killed Palestinians over the years than the IDF has– although here, too, there are many lies in Palestinian claims. Hundreds of cases investigated have shown deaths initially claimed to be due to IDF actions have turned out to be ”work accidents” (incompetent bomb-makers killing themselves and others), internal feuds, extralegal lynchings of ”suspected collaborators”, honor killings and even natural causes totally unrelated to any political situation.



If the Palestinians were suffering a real Holocaust, there would be no need for them to lie in this manner. Making such a comparision, as this employee did, is just perpetuating lies invented for propaganda purposes - while perhaps giving visitors the impression that his words represented the museum’s official policy. Making comparisons to the Armenian genocide by the Turks or the genocide in Somalia would have been more appropriate– and much more accurate.



Now before you ask, no, I am not denying that Palestinians get killed by the IDF. What I AM saying is that the Palestinians often exaggerate the numbers and lie about the circumstances– and this has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt too many times to be debatable.

]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000