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On the one hand the Israeli tactic has been to exaggerate the claims Palestinians have made about Jenin, saying that some talked about thousands killed (there have been no such charges), and on the other, the Israelis are saying that if they did not deliberately massacre hundreds of civilians then there were no war crimes at all and no case to answer. Much is being made of the reports that 'only' some fifty bodies have been found. The first hand reports I heard from Jenin, from Kathy Kelly and Jeff Guntzel, including photographs of funerals, are that people, unable to wait any longer for the international aid that never came are burying their own dead. In an area which has been described by many witnesses as resembling one struck by a serious earthquake, people are digging with their bare hands and cannot get deep down to the basements where whole families were said to be hiding. Israel still refuses to allow heavy equipment into the camp. And the reports that Israel took away bodies also need to be investigated.

{and hey! some rabbi back east says Jews should boycott the NYtimes,or something. the urge to surrender to blanket prejudice is getting stronger as this shit deepens. I have to force myself to remember how many brave people are linked through no fault of their own to the cowards who shriek their fear so publicly. and hide behind the victims of Aryan euthanasia. literally using the dead as shields for their own cowardice. that disgust so easily becomes something wrong. and like that room full of gasoline the present moment reeks of potential disaster. conflagration. holocaust. apocalypse. }