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This editorial describes Israel's situation pretty well, I'm afraid. (But the Palestinian situation with less empathy: harm to civilians may literally have been "minimal", but that's a sizeable minimum.)

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[cellio]

I'd like to know more about what's behind the following two claims, which cannot, plausibly, both be true: (a) Palestinians claiming 500 or more civilians dead in Jenin, and (b) the reports yesterday that Palestinian relief workers went into Jenin and found 14 bodies. Where are the others? How many are there *really*? (I don't think either 500 or 14 is correct.)

Sadly, Israel has often been its own worst enemy with respect to PR. They should have let journalists in much earlier to see for themselves, because I'm pretty sure the evidence would actually support Israel more than the Palestinians. Nobody is squeaky clean here, but if Israel wanted to just kill Palestinians, there are *much* more effective ways to do it.

[stresskitten.livejournal.com]

I think that the relief workers who are collecting bodies (and I thought it was only the Red Cross, escorted by the IDF at all times) have only been allowed into very limited parts of the camp so far, because the IDF is saying that most areas are still too dangerous. The claims that 500 or more people were massacred generally say that the bodies are buried under the bulldozed houses, and especially that the IDF used the bulldozers to make mass graves. To investigate such claims the relief workers would need far more freedom than they are currently getting