-Caveat Lector-
This is exactly what I thought happened at the time! There were far, far
too many kids in the streets mixed among the Palestinians, even those trying
to draw fire by throwing rocks. I also saw the women shouting to news
reporter "Yes, I want to sacrifice my children to eliminate the Jews." How
else could children do anything to the heavily armed Jewish forces other
than as sacrificial PR lambs? It is the same as using them to clear mine
fields then screaming about the mines injuring innocent children.
Why does not the UN intervene in this use of children since that is a great
concern of theirs? They should be condemning the use of these youngest of
human shields.
Also, despite the speculation, there is not yet one shred of evidence that
Israel was behind the bombing of the USS Cole but what fun some folks have
blaming them for everything that happens. Show me proof! But then so many
"just know" these things! Yeah, sure you do. I'd rather meet a Jew in a
dark alley as an Arab any time! And I hope the British do not think those
British casualties we killed with our own misdirected "friendly fire" in the
Gulf War were deliberate. I hope they can forgive us and not be dragging it
up over and over again at every chance like some are doing with the USS
Liberty, ad nauseum.
Our mistake was more recent and we should have had better technology and
intelligence. I can't remember if we killed 15 or 23 but those are the
numbers that come to my mind. We are hardly in a position to "cast stones"
in this regard, no pun intended.
JMHO,
Amelia
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From: "J Taylor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:04 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Fw: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
-Caveat Lector-
Arutz-7 news: PALESTINIANS, NOT ISRAELIS, KILLED THE 12-YEAR-OLD BOY
31 October 2000
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/fnews.htm
An IDF investigation and re-enactment appears to show conclusively that
the
12-year-old boy from Gaza, Muhammad al-Dura, was not shot by Israeli
soldiers
* but was rather the victim of a cruel plot staged by Palestinian
sharp-shooters and a television cameraman.
The incident in question occurred on Oct. 6, when the boy and his father
happened to be walking past the scene of a major battle between
Palestinian
snipers and Israeli soldiers. Former IDF sniper Yosef Doriel, who
initiated
the re-enactment, said that he had several reasons to suspect that it
was
not the Israelis who shot the boy. "For one thing, the boy and his
father
were hiding behind and to the left of a barrel that was between them and
the
Israeli forces," he told Arutz-7 today. "In the video clip, you see four
clean bullet holes to the side of them. These were not shot by the
Israelis
- they are 'clean' and full holes, not mere grazes that would have been
formed by the 30-degree angle of the Israelis - but rather by
Palestinians
(stationed more directly in front of the father and son) to make sure
that
the two would stay put. Suddenly, you see the boy lying down in his
father's
lap, with another bullet hole in the wall directly behind him - again,
it
could not have come from the IDF position, which was behind the barrel
and
to the side, but only from the Palestinian position, which was more
directly
in front of the father and son. This is the bullet that went through his
stomach and out of his back. At that point in the video, you can hear
the
firing - but the Israeli position was far away! Rather, what happened
was
that a Palestinian advanced to a spot very close to the photographer,
and
shot the fatal shot. You can also notice that at that moment of the
fatal
shots, the photographer suddenly 'shook' and the picture was blurred - a
signal that the shots came from close to him."
Doriel and a fellow physicist, Nachum Shachaf, proposed that O.C.
Southern
Command Yom Tov Samiyeh oversee a re-enactment of the entire incident,
complete with the barrel and life-size dummies. Doriel concludes: "The
Palestinian forces staged the event. The Israelis were firing, for
sure -
but the fatal shots came not from them, but from the Palestinian
position
in
front of the boy, behind the cameraman."
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