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Thread #153638   Message #3648982
Posted By: Teribus
07-Aug-14 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
""I denied nothing, but pointed out that no reliable source has reported it."
Which is as good as denying it" - Christmas


Ehmmm Christmas no it is not as good as denying it and you damn well know that - it means exactly what it says - that the source is questionable, it is unsubstantiated and as such cannot be accepted at face value.

"- it's use was reported worldwide and it was a known fact from Israeli sources that it was an Israeli weapon" - Christmas

Oh good, then perhaps you could supply references to back-up those claims (You won't of course, because they don't exist - you just make shit up). Just because something is reported does not necessarily mean that it is true or even factual (Doubt that Christmas? Then tell us how true and factually accurate all the "Reports" were of the hundreds of refugees supposedly killed in Jenin)

For those who don't know the story, or those who wish to conveniently forget it:

"The Battle of Jenin took place in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank in April 1–11, 2002. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the camp, and other areas under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, during the Second Intifada, as part of Operation Defensive Shield. The Jenin camp was targeted after Israel alleged that it had "served as a launch site for numerous terrorist attacks against both Israeli civilians and Israeli towns and villages in the area."

On April 7, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat suggested to CNN that some 500 Palestinians had been killed in the camp. Five days later, when the fighting stopped, PA Secretary Ahmed Abdel Rahman told UPI that the number was in the thousands, hinting, along with other Palestinian figures, that Israel had snatched bodies, buried Palestinians in mass graves and under the rubble of ruined buildings, and otherwise conducted on a scale compatible with genocide."

Stories of hundreds of civilians being killed in their homes as they were demolished spread throughout international media. Subsequent investigations found no evidence to substantiate claims of a massacre, and official totals from Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed between 52 and 54 Palestinians, mostly gunmen, and 23 IDF soldiers as having been killed in the fighting"


Take what the Palestinian Authority and Hamas tells you with a truckload of salt. Between 640 and 960 Hamas rockets fall short and land inside Gaza and they kill or injure nobody? Yeah "And the Band played believe it if you can".