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erekat a practiced liar if ever there was one spoke first of 3 000 palestinian dead then of 500 without bothering to check the international media just lapped his figures up the british media was particularly emotive in its reporting they devoted page upon page day after day to tales of mass murders common graves summary executions and war crimes israel was invariably compared to the nazis to al qaeda and to the taliban one report even compared the thousands of supposedly missing palestinians to the disappeared of argentina the possibility that yasser arafat s claim that the palestinians had suffered jeningrad might be to put it mildly somewhat exaggerated seems not to have been considered 800 000 russians died during the 900 day siege of leningrad 1 3 million died in stalingrad collectively this misreporting was an assault on the truth on a par with the new york times s walter duranty s infamous cover up of the man made famine inflicted by stalin on millions of ukrainians in the 1930s there were malicious and slanderous reports against israel in the american media too with arafat s propagandists given hundreds of hours on television to air their incredible tales of israeli atrocities but at least some american journalists attempted to be fair on april 16 newsday s reporter in jenin edward gargan wrote there is little evidence to suggest that israeli troops conducted a massacre of the dimensions alleged by palestinian officials molly moore of the washington post reported no evidence has yet surfaced to support allegations by palestinian groups and aid organizations of large scale massacres or executions compare this with some of the things which appeared in the british media on the very same day april 16 under the headline amid the ruins the grisly evidence of a war crime the jerusalem correspondent for the london independent phil reeves began his dispatch from jenin a monstrous war crime that israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight has finally been exposed he continued the sweet and ghastly reek of rotting human bodies is everywhere evidence that it is a human tomb the people say there are hundreds of corpses entombed beneath the dust reeves spoke of killing fields an image more usually associated with pol pot s cambodia forgetting to tell his readers that arafat s representatives like those of the other totalitarian regimes that surround israel have a habit of lying a lot he quoted palestinians who spoke of mass murder and executions reeves didn t bother to quote any israeli source whatsoever in his story in another report reeves didn t even feel the need to quote palestinian sources at all when he wrote about israeli atrocities committed in the jenin refugee camp where its army has killed and injured hundreds of palestinians left and right unite against israel but it wasn t only journalists of the left who indulged in israel baiting the right wing daily telegraph which some in the u k have dubbed the daily tel aviv ograph because its editorials are frequently sympathetic to israel was hardly any less misleading in its news coverage running headlines such as hundreds of victims were buried by bulldozer in mass grave in a story on april 15 entitled horror stories from the siege of jenin the paper s correspondent david blair took at face value what he called detailed accounts by palestinians that israeli troops had executed nine men blair quotes one woman telling him that palestinians were stripped to their underwear they were searched bound hand and foot placed against a wall and killed with single shots to the head on the next day april 16 blair quoted a family friend of one supposedly executed man israeli soldiers had stripped him to his underwear pushed him against a wall and shot him he also informed telegraph readers that two thirds of the camp had been destroyed in fact as the satellite photos show the destruction took place in one small area of the camp the quality british press spoke with almost wall to wall unanimity the evening standard s sam kiley conjured up witnesses to speak of israel s staggering brutality and callous murder the times s janine di giovanni suggested that israel s mission to destroy suicide bomb making factories in jenin a town from which at the palestinians own admission 28 suicide bombers had already set out was an excuse by ariel sharon to attack children with chickenpox the guardian s suzanne goldenberg wrote the scale of destruction is almost beyond imagination in case british readers didn t get the message from their news reporters the editorial writers spelled it out loud and clear on april 17 the guardian s lead editorial compared the israeli incursion in jenin with the attack on the world trade center on september 11 jenin wrote the guardian was every bit as repellent in its particulars no less distressing and every bit as man made jenin camp looks like the scene of a crime jenin already has that aura of infamy that attaches to a crime of especial notoriety continued this once liberal paper which used to pride itself on its honesty and one of whose former editors coined the phrase comment is free facts are sacred the poisoning of water supplies whereas the guardian s editorial writers compared the jewish state to al qaeda evening standard commentators merely compared the israeli government to the taliban writing on april 15 a n wilson one of the evening standard s leading columnists accused israel of the poisoning of water supplies a libel dangerously reminiscent of ancient anti semitic myths and wrote we are talking here of massacre and a cover up of genocide he also attempted to pit christians against jews by accusing israel of the willful burning of several church buildings and making the perhaps even more incredible assertion that many young muslims in palestine are the children of anglican christians educated at st george s jerusalem who felt that their parents mild faith was not enough to fight the oppressor then before casually switching to write about how much money catherine zeta jones is paying her nanny wilson wrote last week we saw the israeli troops destroy monuments in nablus of ancient importance the scene where jesus spoke to a samaritan woman at the well it is the equivalent of the taliban destroying buddhist sculpture perhaps wilson had forgotten that the only monument destroyed in nablus since arafat launched his war against israel in september 2000 was the ancient jewish site of joseph s tomb torn down by a palestinian mob while arafat s security forces looked on other commentators threw in the holocaust turning it against israel yasmin alibhai brown a leading columnist for the independent wrote april 15 i would suggest that ariel sharon should be tried for crimes against humanity and be damned for so debasing the profoundly important legacy of the holocaust which was meant to stop forever nations turning themselves into ethnic killing machines many of the hostile comments were leveled at the u s why for god s sake can t mr powell do the decent thing and demand an explanation for the extraordinary sinister events that have taken place in jenin does he really have to debase himself in this way does he think that meeting arafat or refusing to do so takes precedence over the enormous slaughter that has overwhelmed the palestinians wrote robert fisk in the independent staining the star of david with blood in the wake of the media attacks came the politicians speaking in the house of commons on april 16 gerald kaufman a veteran labor member of parliament and a former shadow foreign secretary announced that ariel sharon was a war criminal who led a repulsive government to nods of approval from his fellow parliamentarians kaufman who is jewish said the methods of barbarism against the palestinians supposedly employed by the israeli army were staining the star of david with blood speaking on behalf of the opposition conservative party john gummer a former cabinet minister also lashed out at israel he said he was basing his admonition on the evidence before us was gummer perhaps referring to the twisted news reports he may have watched from the bbc s correspondent orla guerin or maybe his evidence stemmed from the account given by ann clwyd a labour mp who on return from a fleeting fact finding mission to jenin told parliament she had a croaky voice and this was all the fault of dust caused by israeli tanks clwyd had joined a succession of vip visitors parading through jenin members of the european parliament u s church leaders amnesty international secretary general irene khan bianca jagger ex wife of pop music legend mick jagger clwyd s voice wasn t sufficiently croaky though to prevent her from calling on all european states to withdraw their ambassadors from israel not to be outdone by politicians britain s esteemed academics went further tom paulin who lectures in 19th and 20th century literature at oxford university opined that the u s born jews who live on the west bank of the river jordan should be shot dead they are nazis racists he said adding though one might have thought this was unnecessary after his previous comment i feel nothing but hatred for them paulin is also one of bbc television s regular commentators on the arts the bbc says they will continue to invite him even after these remarks oxford university has taken no action against him only one witness on closer examination the facts on which many of the media reports were based facts that no doubt played a role in inspiring such hateful remarks as paulin s reveal an even greater scandal the british media appear to have based much of its evidence of genocide on a single individual kamal anis a labourer the times kamal anis 28 the daily telegraph a quiet sad looking young man called kamal anis the independent and referred to the same supposed victim the burned remains of a man bashar the evening standard bashir died in agony the times a man named only as bashar once lived there the daily telegraph the independent kamal anis saw the israeli soldiers pile 30 bodies beneath a half wrecked house when the pile was complete they bulldozed the building bringing its ruins down on the corpses then they flattened the area with a tank the times kamal anis says the israelis levelled the place he saw them pile bodies into a mass grave dump earth on top then ran over it to flatten it evidently as can be seen from the following reports british journalists hadn t been speaking to the same palestinian witnesses as american journalists the los angeles times palestinians in jenin painted a picture of a vicious house to house battle in which israeli soldiers faced palestinian gunmen intermixed with the camp s civilian population the boston globe following extensive interviews with civilians and fighters in jenin none reported seeing large numbers of civilians killed on the other hand referring to the deaths of israeli soldiers in jenin abdel rahman sa adi an islamic jihad grenade thrower told the globe this was a massacre of the jews not of us some in the american press also mentioned the video filmed by the israeli army and shown on israeli television of palestinians moving corpses of people who had previously died of natural causes rather than in the course of the jenin fighting into graveyards around the camp to fabricate evidence in advance of the now cancelled u n fact finding mission but if europeans readers don t trust american journalists perhaps they are ready to believe the testimony given in the arab press take for example the extensive interview with a palestinian bomb maker omar in the leading egyptian newspaper al ahram we had more than 50 houses booby trapped around the jenin camp omar said we chose old and empty buildings and the houses of men who were wanted by israel because we knew the soldiers would search for them we cut off lengths of mains water pipes and packed them with explosives and nails then we placed them about four meters apart throughout the houses in cupboards under sinks in sofas the women went out to tell the soldiers that we had run out of bullets and were leaving the women alerted the fighters as the soldiers reached the booby trapped area perhaps what is most shocking though is that the british press had closed their ears to the israelis themselves a society with one of the most vigorous and self critical democracies in the world in the words of kenneth preiss a professor at ben gurion university please inform the reporters trying to figure out if the israeli army is trying to hide a massacre of palestinians that israel s citizen army includes journalists members of parliament professors doctors human rights activists members of every political party and every other kind of person all within sight and cell phone distance of home and editorial offices were the slightest infringements to have taken place there would be demonstrations outside the prime minister s office in no time only an intellectual could be so stupid george orwell once remarked to a communist fellow traveler with whom he was having a dispute you must be an intellectual only an intellectual could say something so stupid this observation has relevance in regard to the middle east too so far only the nonintellectual tabloids have grasped the essential difference between right and wrong the difference between a deliberate intent to kill civilians such as that ordered by chairman arafat over the past four decades and the unintentional deaths of civilians in the course of legitimate battle on both sides of the atlantic the mass market papers have corrected the lies of their supposedly superior broadsheets on april 17 the new york post carried an editorial entitled the massacre that wasn t in london the most popular british daily paper the sun published a lengthy editorial april 15 pointing out that israelis are scared to death they have never truly trusted britain and with some of the people we employ in the foreign office why the hell should they countries throughout europe are still in denial about murdering their entire jewish population the sun added and it was time to dispel the conspiracy theory that jews run the world the headline of the sun s editorial was the jewish faith is not an evil religion one might think such a headline was unnecessary in twenty first century britain but apparently it is not one would hope that some honest reflection about their reporting by those european and american journalists who are genuinely motivated by a desire to help palestinians as opposed to those whose primary motive is demonizing jews will enable them to realize that propagating the falsehoods of arafat s propagandists does nothing to further the legitimate aspirations of ordinary palestinians any more than parroting the lies of stalin helped ordinary russians tom gross is a former jerusalem correspondent for the london sunday telegraph and new york daily news posted by jeff weintraub at 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