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May. 1st, 2002 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioJenin 'massacre' reduced to death toll of 56
(Washington Times [I previously wrote Post -- sorry!])
JENIN, West Bank — Palestinian officials yesterday put the death toll at 56 in the two-week Israeli assault on Jenin, dropping claims of a massacre of 500 that had sparked demands for a U.N. investigation.
[...]
The destruction, pictured graphically on television, appeared linked to Israeli bulldozing of the houses from which the remnant of the resistance forces were firing.
In fact, it covers the size of a large football field and constitutes only about 10 percent of the housing in the camp, and a far smaller proportion of the housing in the city, which was largely left untouched by the Israeli incursion.
[...]
The propaganda war continues, meanwhile, in the refugee camp itself. Families whose homes had been destroyed were ordered to sit and lie inside tents pitched near the destruction, to be available for interviews and filming with foreign reporters and photographers. At dusk, with the press opportunities concluded, they returned to houses offered to them in the undamaged city or in the rest of the refugee camp.
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(Washington Times [I previously wrote Post -- sorry!])
JENIN, West Bank — Palestinian officials yesterday put the death toll at 56 in the two-week Israeli assault on Jenin, dropping claims of a massacre of 500 that had sparked demands for a U.N. investigation.
[...]
The destruction, pictured graphically on television, appeared linked to Israeli bulldozing of the houses from which the remnant of the resistance forces were firing.
In fact, it covers the size of a large football field and constitutes only about 10 percent of the housing in the camp, and a far smaller proportion of the housing in the city, which was largely left untouched by the Israeli incursion.
[...]
The propaganda war continues, meanwhile, in the refugee camp itself. Families whose homes had been destroyed were ordered to sit and lie inside tents pitched near the destruction, to be available for interviews and filming with foreign reporters and photographers. At dusk, with the press opportunities concluded, they returned to houses offered to them in the undamaged city or in the rest of the refugee camp.
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Date: 2002-05-01 09:28 pm (UTC)Washington Times. I don't know enough about them and their editorial line to know how to read this story, but they're the Moonies' newspaper.
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Date: 2002-05-02 07:49 am (UTC)Whoops. Thank you for pointing this out.
I don't know either paper (Post or Times) very well. Moonies' paper? I didn't know they had one. Do you mean officially (i.e. this is their publishing arm), or more "subversively" (they own a lot of stock and are thus expected to influence content)?
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Date: 2002-05-02 03:51 pm (UTC)The Times was founded by Sun Myung Moon in 1982 (http://www.unification.net/1997/970616.html), and it gained some notice in 1980s Washington for its hard-line anti-Communism. I don't read it, so I really have no idea whether this story can be taken at face value. I haven't seen a Palestinian recantation reported anywhere else, but I also haven't been impressed by my newspapers' coverage.
(Insight magazine is another Moon publication (http://www.unification.net/misc/orgns.html) you may have run into. Well-made glossy right-wing news magazine.)
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Date: 2002-05-04 09:07 pm (UTC)