- In the wake of the "Sabbath Massacre" Americans
are getting a censored and very misleading report of who was killed in
Hebron. All 12 of the Israelis killed were commanders or soldiers of the
occupation army, members of the notorious Israeli "border police,"
or armed-settlers.
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- The vicious armed settlers are always escorted and protected
by well armed soldiers as they occupy Hebron and humiliate Palestinians
on a daily basis [see below].
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- The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Palestinians had carried
out a "Sabbath massacre." What Americans are not being told is
that all 12 Israelis killed in the massacre were all well-armed and uniformed
soldiers who were escorting well-armed settlers. The fact that these settlers
and soldiers are in Hebron in violation of international law and a host
of U.N. Security Council resolutions has also been omitted in the U.S.
mass media.
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- As the Israeli paper Ha'aretz reported on its English
website: "Twelve Israelis were killed and 14 wounded Friday evening
when Palestinian gunmen opened fire and tossed grenades at a group of Jewish
settlers and IDF soldiers escorting themAmong the Israelis killed were
two IDF officers, including Hebron Brigade Commander Colonel Dror Weinberg,
38, a Border police officer, two soldiers, four Border Police troops and
three civilian members of the Jewish settlement in Hebron who were part
of an emergency security team, Israel Radio reported."
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- >From this Ha'aretz report we can see that all 12
Israelis killed were armed-men, and that 9 of them were actually uniformed
soldiers who are part of the illegal military occupation of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
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- The continued Israeli presence in the West Bank town
of Hebron is illegal and in flagrant defiance of a raft of U.N. Security
Council resolutions going back more than 35 years.
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- The Israelis who died in Hebron on Friday night were
not simply innocent "Jewish worshippers" as Associated Press
would have us believe. AP clearly left out the most important details from
the Israel Radio report and did everything to portray the dead as religious,
innocent, and unarmed Jews returning from Sabbath prayers. This is extremely
misleading and provides a good example of how the U.S. media constantly
distorts what really happens in Palestine under the brutal Israeli occupation:
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- "HEBRON, West Bank Nov. 16 (AP)- Jewish worshippers
walking out of a shrine in the West Bank city of Hebron were caught in
a hail of bullets fired by Palestinian militants an ambush that killed
12 Israelis and wounded 15.There was gunfire from left and right, from
every possible angle, they were shooting at us from above," one man,
who gave his name only as Arik, told Army Radio. "The group of Jews
were slaughtered." [from 11/16 AP report]
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- What is omitted is the fact that the 12 dead Israelis
were all part of the extremely well-armed and brutal occupation force that
has forced itself into the Palestinian West Bank town of Hebron and imposed
itself with brute force on the more than 130,000 Palestinian Moslems that
have lived in that lovely town for hundreds of years.
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- One of the dead was clearly a senior commander of the
illegal Israeli force in the area. From a less biased perspective, the
ambush was a normal and legitimate response to an illegal and brutal military
occupation from people who have suffered under foreign rule for decades.
It was a punishing military response from brave Palestinian freedom fighters
who simply outsmarted and outgunned the Israeli military.
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- Clearly, the reason the U.S. media has omitted the fact
that all of the Israelis killed were soldiers or armed settlers is because
the facts do not reflect well on the highly-vaunted Israeli army. The massacre
occurred when brave Palestinian civilians killed a dozen well-armed professional
soldiers and militant settlers.
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- Had this been a colonial American attack on British soldiers
in 1776 it would be recorded in American history books as an honor to brave
American patriot fighters.
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- Sic Semper Tyrannis is the universal motto of patriots
fighting military occupation.
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