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I'm never quite so pro-Israeli as when I'm reading an Edward Said anti-Israel piece:
On 8 March, hitherto the bloodiest day for Palestinians of the 16-month Intifada, CNN's main evening news specified the death of 40 "people" and failed even to mention the death of several Red Crescent workers killed while their ambulances were prevented by Israeli tanks from getting to the wounded.
This allegation would bother me more if I hadn't just recently read this at andrewsullivan.com:
Reserve soldiers at a mobile roadblock today captured a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance driver who was caught transporting an explosive belt of the type detonated by suicide bombers, Israel Radio reported. The ambulance was stopped and searched between Nablus and Ramallah, and soldiers found the explosive belt under a stretcher upon which a Palestinian boy was lying. The boy's family was with him in the ambulance. The ambulance driver, Islam Jibril, a resident of the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, told interrogators he received the belt from Muhammad Titti, a senior Tanzim activist close to Palestinian Authority West Bank security chief Marwan Barghouti. The belt contained some 10 kilograms of explosives.
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Ah, but do you trust Israel Radio? This could easily be an after-the-fact spin campaign.
Not that I'm saying the Palestinians are a bunch of Boy Scouts.
Posted by schnitz @ 03/28/2002 02:06 PM PST
And just because the Intifada is using Red Crescent uniforms doesn't mean the dead Red Crescent workers weren't innocently trying to prevent bloodshed.
Posted by Schnitz @ 03/28/2002 02:09 PM PST
First, I'm not aware of the two quotes being about the same incident, so the spin would be more subtle than covering up a snafu. Still, it is indeed possible.
My point, though, is that if Red Crescent trucks are indeed carrying explosives, then violence against them seems less tragic and more a by-product of the decision to involve them in a combative way (even if not all of them are involved).
Posted by Sean @ 03/28/2002 05:06 PM PST
media reports of second incident in original post:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=146300
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/27/LatestNews/LatestNews.46007.html
both obtained from:
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2636
Posted by Sean @ 03/28/2002 05:57 PM PST
Fair enough.
I guess I overstated my point a bit. I'm not really pro- either side. All I'm trying to say is: them sands are shifty. It's real easy to accidentially buy into propaganda from either side here. Be careful out there buckaroos.
Posted by Schnitz @ 03/28/2002 07:18 PM PST