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In and amidst European and UN handwringing about what went down in the Jenin Refugee Camp, here’s a truly fascinating interview <\/a>in Al Ahram<\/i>, an Egyptian newspaper, with a Palestinian bomb-maker.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In case the story up and vanishes, check out the quotes and commentary at Little Green Footballs<\/a>. He says it all better than I could. An earlier article on the chief UN handwringer<\/a> is equally telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1833,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/23\/the_battle.html","url_meta":{"origin":1860,"position":0},"title":"The Battle","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Apr-02 8:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Excerpts from an interview with an Islamic Jihad militant taken prisoner at Jenin. 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