"Only problem with that statement Jom is that the 3,500 number is an unverified estimate. "
It is unverifiable because the Israelis buried the bodies and built a sports stadium over the mass graves to ascertain that the exact figure would never be known.
The transient nature of these refugee camps makes it possible that the actual figure might be higher than this.
Not a problem, as far as I'm concerned, a massacre of unarmed people at this level is a crime against humanity comparable to the extermination of the Jewish people in everything other than numbers.
Why should it matter that there were ONLY 3,000 0r 2,000, 1,000 unarmed civil and massacred?
The massacre was carried out with the full co-operation of the Israeli Army - not just by them standing by and doing nothing, which would have been a crime anyway, but by them supplying access, transport, weapons and illumination.
A bit sick to suggest "but it might have been only...", but par for the course for you people and very, very reminiscent of the arguments put forward by David Irving and his ilk in order to excuse the massacre of the Jewish people by the Nazis.
I'm sure that you will continue playing your numbers game though - what else have you, other than Keith's outright denial?
Jim Carroll