Here is some of Tanya Reinhart's "reporting" from April 30, 2002 printed in "Counterpunch". She wrote:
" What did clearly happen in Jenin is that the army simply ignored the fact that there were an unknown number of individuals and families in the areas which were bombarded day and night by missiles from "Cobra" helicopters, or even in some of the houses erased by bulldozers to pave way for the tanks. No one came to shoot them individually; they were just buried under their bombarded or bulldozed homes. Others died of their wounds in the alleys, or cried for days under the ruins, until their voices faded away."
Anyone who has followed up the 2002 incursion into Jenin knows that the Palestinians grossly exaggerated the number of people killed --saying first there were 1500 killed, then 1000, then 500. I think the final number was 56 with 49 of them armed combatants.
Reinhart fully believes this "massacre" took place. In her entire article she fails to mention that more suicide bombers originated from the Jenin camp than anywhere else.
Reinhart goes out of her way to villify Israel but conveniently ignores basic facts that affect how the general public sees the conflict.
If an ambulance is stopped, Reinhart assumes it is because the evil Israelis are denying medical care to a wounded Palestinian grandmother ---and never mentions that terrorists use ambulances to transport arms, bombs, and terrorists over borders in order to carry out massacres of Israeli civilians. She didn't mention that the IDF offered to donate blood to the Jenin hospital only to have it rejected as the Palestinian refused to use "Jewish blood." The IDF then air-lifted blood in from Jordan for the injured.
But if you want to hear a lop-sided, fact-free, Israel-bash, go to this event. Tanya can dish it out bigtime. But then this is the kind of "scholarship" the Resource Center for Nonviolence regularly serves up.
Re: Israeli scholar Tanya Reinhart visits Santa Cruz, June 27
Date Edited: 12 Jun 2004 06:51:02 AM
" What did clearly happen in Jenin is that the army simply ignored the fact that there were an unknown number of individuals and families in the areas which were bombarded day and night by missiles from "Cobra" helicopters, or even in some of the houses erased by bulldozers to pave way for the tanks. No one came to shoot them individually; they were just buried under their bombarded or bulldozed homes. Others died of their wounds in the alleys, or cried for days under the ruins, until their voices faded away."
Anyone who has followed up the 2002 incursion into Jenin knows that the Palestinians grossly exaggerated the number of people killed --saying first there were 1500 killed, then 1000, then 500. I think the final number was 56 with 49 of them armed combatants.
Reinhart fully believes this "massacre" took place. In her entire article she fails to mention that more suicide bombers originated from the Jenin camp than anywhere else.
Reinhart goes out of her way to villify Israel but conveniently ignores basic facts that affect how the general public sees the conflict.
If an ambulance is stopped, Reinhart assumes it is because the evil Israelis are denying medical care to a wounded Palestinian grandmother ---and never mentions that terrorists use ambulances to transport arms, bombs, and terrorists over borders in order to carry out massacres of Israeli civilians. She didn't mention that the IDF offered to donate blood to the Jenin hospital only to have it rejected as the Palestinian refused to use "Jewish blood." The IDF then air-lifted blood in from Jordan for the injured.
But if you want to hear a lop-sided, fact-free, Israel-bash, go to this event. Tanya can dish it out bigtime. But then this is the kind of "scholarship" the Resource Center for Nonviolence regularly serves up.
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