Reply #88: Speaking of empurpled prose and propaganda... [View All]

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But in the over-all view, the casualties were extraordinarily mild, totaling no more than about eighty on both sides, and without a great degree of restraint on the part of the Israeli forces, this could not have been the case.

I personally wouldn't call Jenin a massacre, but a war crime (despite yr protestations to the contrary, human rights groups do believe that Israel committed grave violations in law, and as they're much clearly less partisan than yrself and much more qualified in the matter, they hold a lot more weight). But the number of casualties has nothing at all to do with whether something is a massacre or not. And yr meaning of massacre - 'Most if not all'?? Okay, so the Port Arthur massacre really wasn't a massacre according to yr use of the term....