Word: jenine
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Israel may have let Arafat out to quiet demands from the U.N. that it allow a fact-finding mission to investigate the Jenin refugee camp, which Israel invaded last month. Although Palestinians have charged that a massacre took place in the camp, there is no evidence to suggest that any such massacre happened. The camp was a center for terrorist activity, and the Israelis took heavy losses in the fight there. Twenty-three Israeli soldiers were killed during house-to-house fighting. Palestinian terrorists had booby-trapped many houses and streets in the camp and reportedly used non-combatants...
More understandable, though no less disturbing, is the Staff’s position that Israel was right to reject a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate the recent fighting in Jenin. The Staff says that the U.N. is biased against Israel. And to a very limited extent, the Staff is right; many of the countries in the U.N. certainly see Israel as the aggressor, rather than the victim, in the Palestinian conflict—though it is far from certain that this perspective would prevent any investigative mission from honestly evaluating the facts. In a conflict riddled with misunderstanding...
...Staff wishes to deny the U.N. the chance to investigate human rights abuses in Jenin, it must envision a limited role indeed for the worldwide organization. If the U.N. should not investigate potential human rights abuses and massacres, what group would the Staff choose for such an important task? And if the fact that Israel is the target of the inquiry particularly troubles the Staff, why should Israel be evaluated by a different organization than other nations? The United Nations is imperfect, as are all institutions, but creating an ad hoc commission packed with Israel’s allies would...
...Jenin Massacre—as it will one day be known—was perpetrated from April 3-April 19. When the tanks finally departed and Jenin’s terrified residents began to slowly emerge from their homes (if those homes had not already been destroyed by bulldozers), they were greeted with the stench of rotting human corpses and a scene that United Nations Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen has described as “horrifying beyond belief...
...Hurry to Comply Ignoring a fresh U.S. call for a complete pullback from reoccupied Palestinian areas, Israel sent tanks and troops back into the city of Qalqiliya and three villages, while asking the U.N. to delay - pending clarifications - a fact-finding mission to investigate Israeli forces' attack on the Jenin refugee camp. Denying allegations of a massacre at Jenin, Israel insists that the U.N. inquiry include an investigation of Palestinian "terrorism" and that both sides agree on a framework for the U.N. team's activities. In Ramallah, the Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...