to: Peace is what we need
Israel wants peace too. Don't forget that.

While Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk are brilliant and probing writers and researchers, they share a blind spot with many on the left who see only oppression, humiliation, occupation, apartheid, torture, and human rights violations when they look at Israel, but rarely condemn Palestinian violence or human rights abuses. Fisk got a shocking surprise one day when he witnessed a mob of Palestinians dragging one of their own off to a lynching for "collaborating" with Israel. When he tried to take a photo, he was told that would get him killed. Generally, he uses the word "occupation" to describe areas that rightfully should be called disputed territories. This is only one example of his anti-Israel bias.

I am not surprised that either of them wrote the forward to Ilan Pappe's book--searching for Jenin.

Regarding Pappe's book ---which says "we may never know how many were killed in Jenin" lets look at what was reported early on by the Palestinian Authority. First their spokesman said 1500 Palestinians had been killed. Then he said "1000" had been killed. Then he said "500" had been killed. When the final list was presented by the PA, it had 56 names. The IDF had said 52 Palestininans had been killed in the battle of Jenin in 2002 all along. BTW 32 IDF were also killed and the Palestinians used a 12 yr-old suicide bomber there as well.

So when such an outrageous exaggeration of a death toll which had been trumpted by leftist sources (including by George on her Free Radio Santa Cruz show)was exposed for the lies they were, what does a leftist "expert" do? He reports "We may never know..." to continue the emotional inertia that Israel committed a massacre in Jenin. BTW the Jenin camp was home to more suicide bombers than any other place in the PA.