In and amidst European and UN handwringing about what went down in the Jenin Refugee Camp, here’s a truly fascinating interview in Al Ahram, an Egyptian newspaper, with a Palestinian bomb-maker.
The article, in playing up the glorious freedom fighters of Jenin, makes one thing quite clear — it was a battle, not a massacre. A battle in which the Palestinian militants had heavily mined the streets, booby-trapped the houses, and used civilians to lure Israeli patrols into ambushes.
That the Israelis won is a sign of their having a military advantage to begin with, and the will to use it. That they simply didn’t bomb the camp into sooty rubble is a sign of who was more interested in causing a massacre.
In case the story up and vanishes, check out the quotes and commentary at Little Green Footballs. He says it all better than I could. An earlier article on the chief UN handwringer is equally telling.
I emailed the url to the RMN.