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Friday, 23 January 2009


  Today’s spin--heartless Jews murder the innocent: In its weekly Friday digest,
  the Canadian Islamic Congress posts this report, from UK rag The Guardian,
  about the immense loss of life in Gaza, much of it comprised of children. The piece’s
  headline is a mini maudlin masterpiece: “They’ve killed us; me, Amal and Soso.
  They’ve gone to heaven.” What follows is insidious anti-Zionist propaganda, 
  something at which both the Guardian and the CIC excel:

Four-year- old Samer Abed Rabbo lay half-covered by a blanket yesterday in
her hospital bed, as she tried to explain the bullets that crippled her and killed her two sisters.
Samer was hit by a bullet in the back that damaged her spinal cord and left her arms and legs paralyzed, probably permanently. Her sisters Amal, aged two, and Suad, eight (nicknamed Soso), were killed outright when their house in northern Gaza came under attack from an Israeli tank last week.

"They killed us," Samer said. "We're dead. Me, Amal and Soso. They've gone to heaven " The Jews destroyed the house and I don't want to go back there. I love Amal and Soso."

Israel's military says it does not target civilians and blames Hamas, the Islamist movement that runs Gaza, for the high civilian casualty toll, because it fights from within urban areas. The Israeli military is in turn accused of using its immense firepower indiscriminately in built-up areas packed with civilian families trying to shelter from the fighting. More than half of Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants are children.

The extraordinary number of civilian deaths " particularly among children -- is for many a defining and shocking feature of this brutal offensive, which began in force on December 27. Today (mid- January) some 1200 and at least one-third of them are children. Up to 5,000 Gazans of all ages are among the injured, again at least one-third (and likely up to half) of them children. Many of the children have injuries that will leave them permanently disabled, facing more operations and months or years of rehabilitation therapy " both of which are very hard to come by in the impoverished Palestinian territories…
  I can’t say for sure whether Amal and Soso have indeed gone to heaven (and if
  they have, may they rest in peace), or whether their deaths were fabricated for
  propaganda purposes. However, it seems clear that, as per usual, the Palestinians
  have, for obvious reasons, inflated the number of deaths. An Honest Reporting alert,
  citing a YNet News report, casts doubt on the veracity of Hamas’s figures: 

…“The number of deceased stands at no more than 500 to 600. Most of them are youths between the ages of 17 to 23 who were recruited to the ranks of Hamas, who sent them to the slaughter," according to the newspaper article....

A Tal al-Hawa resident told the newspaper's reporter, "Armed Hamas men sought out a good position for provoking the Israelis. There were mostly teenagers, aged 16 or 17, and armed. They couldn't do a thing against a tank or a jet. They knew they are much weaker, but they fired at our houses so that they could blame Israel for war crimes."

The reporter for the Italian newspaper also quoted reporters in the Strip who told of Hamas' exaggerated figures, "We have already said to Hamas commanders – why do you insist on inflating the number of victims?"

These same reporters mentioned that the truth that will come out is likely to be similar to what occurred in Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin. "Then, there was first talk of 1,500 deaths. But then it turned out that there were only 54, 45 of which were armed men," the Palestinian reporters told the Italian newspaper…

  Not that for Zion-haters accuracy and the truth make a bit of difference, since the Big
  Lie is so much more effective in making their case.

  Update: What really happened to the Amals and Sosos.

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