today the israeli army killed more innocent palestinians. the main stream stories failed to mention critical background.
pro-zionists say its ok for israel to assasinate, but not palestine. (me i think all killing is bad). far more palestinians have been kiiled than israelis. FAR FAR more have been injured. Palestinians fear genocide is ISRAEL'S PLAN. (nazis started with walls).
why isnt this on the front page? its clearly the days top news story, (even in the USA corporate press). Is daily kos predjudiced against palestine?
2 stories from october 2001 below the fold:
http://www.cuttingedge.org/....
Israel's tourism minister, a retired general who advocated the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, was assassinated Wednesday in a hotel hallway - a killing claimed by a radical Palestinian group. Rehavam Zeevi, 75, was the first Cabinet minister to be slain by Palestinians. His killing provoked outrage in Israel and raised the specter of a new outburst of violence at a time when Israel and the Palestinians are trying to patch up a shaky U.S.-supported truce deal."
"Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged 'a war to the finish against the terrorists, their helpers and those who sent them'.
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http://www.commondreams.org/....
Published October 26, 2001 in the Independent/UK
Messy and Brutal End to Israel's 'Surgical Strike'
by Phil Reeves in Beit Rima
The young Gazan policeman was either up the carob tree, or trying to hide under it, when he was caught in the eye of a helicopter search light, and the Israeli guns opened up on him.
The scores of bullet-tears in the tree's branches, and the spats of blood on the ground below â" respectfully encircled yesterday by a makeshift shrine â" do not reveal whether he fell out of it, or died beneath it.
But all the signs suggested he was running away, stumbling across the side of the hill in the darkness, through the thorn bushes and olives groves, desperate to escape the Israeli forces storming into the village he was supposed to protect.
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Israeli officials portrayed its military assault on the West Bank village of Beit Rima as an operation to flush out the assassins of Rechavam Zeevi, the ultra-nationalist Tourism Minister killed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) nine days ago.
But it was a messy, brutal, large-scale and flamboyant military raid with tanks, helicopters, and APCs rather than a surgical undercover night-time operation targeting the "nests" of terror that Israel is so fond of talking about.
It left five men dead who may or may not have fired at the troops piling into their village – accounts were unclear – in violation of a ceasefire that has been far more frequently breached than observed.
But there was no evidence that they had anything to do with the minister's murder. Two of them – both policemen from Gaza – died in the orchard outside the village's eastern edge, almost certainly as they were trying to escape; the other three were members of Yasser Arafat's paramilitary national security forces, none of whom came from the village.
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