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[mises]

Wow. 10 pages and multiple threads about 500 dead. I guess Jews really are news.

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Jandar]

I'm glad to see that trevor is finally coming around.

Maybe other misguided souls will see the error of their ways.

[bangbayed]

[Trevor]

An interesting thing happens when a person does a little online research regarding anything to do with Israel or the holocaust. Typically, the first, or one of the first search results is from Wikipedia. Click on it � consistently there is a heading that says �This article is in dispute.� Clearly there is an enormous struggle over the historical record, even on Wikipedia.

Whose disputing every possible negative word they can find on the internet about Israel? It�s obviously organized and quite methodical. I don�t know, but were you aware that the Israeli government spends a great deal writing and editing the Wiki? They have been caught several times. A computer linked to the Israeli government twice tried to delete an entire article about the West Bank wall that was critical of the policy. An edit from the same address also modified the entry for Hizbollah describing all its operations as being "mostly military in nature".

Soruces:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/wikipedia-and-the-art-of-censorship-462070.html

Here's some more information on Israeli governemnt's edits to the Wiki:

http://conflictblotter.com/2007/08/22/israels-wikipedia-editors/


why am I bringing this up?

Well, yesterday I posted several links regarding the Jenin Massacre. Almost immediately came a reply from one of the thread�s less articulate Israel supporters: �There was no massacre,� he said.

A Jenin Denier, let�s call him.

But the tactic is not without its merits. Now the onus is on me to prove whether or not there was a massacre. Unfortunately, I wasn�t there. Who was there? Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. Each calling the other a liar. Not so easy to prove anything.

Let�s take another example: former prime minister Golda Meir who, in 1969, said the Palestinians didn�t exist:

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
-- Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

And


"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."
-- Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.


Denial at its finest! And it worked! Who was there to say �tain�t so Golda.�

Years later someone had to go and write a book to prove that Palestinians existed!

What strikes me about this is how Israel�s own denial seems to be overlooked so often. Ultimately someone had to go back and do the legwork to literally prove that the Palestinians existed. By that time, Golda was dead, the six day war was over, and the Issue had moved and nobody cared anymore.

Here�s a report on Jenin that I think most people will find valid enough.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article394547.ece

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