Srebrenicia, Qana and Jenin [Archives:2002/17/Focus]

COMMON SENSE
by Hassan Al-Haifi
These are three towns that reflect the inhumanity of man to man. What is more significant in all three massacres is that the ugly Zionist hand was at play, either directly or indirectly, in all. Moreover they represent a sad reality in the world today that innocent people are allowed to be victims of cold-blooded murder to satisfy the whims of bloodthirsty chauvinists. Incidentally, the anniversaries of all the three calamities fall on the same month, if not the same week.
People might wonder, what is the relationship of the madness perpetrated by Slobodan Melosovitch in the beautiful green rolling hills of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the equal insanity of the likes of Ariel Sharon in Palestine and in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon? The answer to that is very simple. It is no secret that the Zionist regime in Tel Aviv did not hesitate in providing technical and moral assistance to the Serbs of the former Yugoslavia in the latters campaign to regain the glory of the Serb Nation through ethnic cleansing a well-engrained element of Zionist thought. In fact during that period, when the world was in outrage at what Melosovitch and his gang of hoodlums were doing in Bosnia and Kesovo, one did not hear one word of outcry against the Serbs in Israel for carrying similar atrocities.
As for Qana, for example, it is clear that the Zionists were trying to make up for their failure in quelling the courageous struggle put up by the Lebanese resistance movement. The well organized and disciplined Hizbullah was dealing deadly blows against the occupier of their land, who never expected to confront such a challenge from an Arab opponent. Thus they figured by introducing terror to the Lebanese population, they would force Hizbullah to reduce the ferocity of their attack on the Israeli Defense Forces positions in occupied Lebanon.
So they sent their jet fighters to unleash their deadly load on some of the civilian population, who had sought cover in the United Nations Camp at Qana. Surely, the Israelis knew that the area was a UN post. But, to the Zionists, the thirst for blood would not be stopped! They struck the camp with their sophisticated state-of-the-art technology and rendered death to 150 Lebanese civilians, including women and children: a horrible display of western civilization and culture, which Israel insists it is upholding.
Now we come to Jenin. Jenin is no more than another link in the series of crimes that have been perpetrated by the Zionist establishment in the Holy Land. From F-16s, Apaches and to tanks and bulldozers, the Israelis clearly wanted to display that they are the real masters of terror in the world today. Hundreds of Palestinians, mostly civilians were slaughtered needlessly. The worst part of this heinous crime is that the victims of the Jenin massacre were already refugees who had fled from previous Zionist massacres, at places such as Deir Yassin and other Palestinian villages subjected to in the destruction of the earlier days of the Zionist state.
It is difficult for anyone to find how the Zionists find any justification in perpetrating murder to defend themselves against helpless refugees, and wreak destruction to the most humble of human dwellings in the name of fighting terror. And it is high time that the world awakens to the menace that the Zionist regime represents in the region and to the progress of peace and human cohesion throughout the world.
Notwithstanding all the corpses, the Zionists pulled out of Jenin to cover-up their madness there. Now the atrocity will not be forgotten by most of the world, least of all the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab World. Even President Bush, as much as he sympathizes and insists on the rationality of the Zionist war against the Palestinian state, could not help but succumb to the idea of sending an investigating group or fact finding mission to the West Bank to determine if a massacre was indeed perpetrated there. All we wish to say is that Colin Powell should have taken a walk through the refugee camp. His nose will surely guide him to the truth there. The Israelis have killed so many people in Jenin, that the rubble they were buried under could not be removed to pull them out of the area to be buried in hidden graves that are known only to the Mosad. Moreover, even the Israelis could not bear the stench of death unleashed by their own hands, so they decided to evacuate the village.

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