THE BEAST OF JENINMOSHE NISSIN

Covering up Israeli war crimes

All during the mbuttacre, the Israelis who were driving mbuttive, 60-ton, armored bulldozers had been busily tearing down houses and burying people alive. After April 9, however, they went into overdrive. One civilian Israeli bulldozer operator named Moshe Nissim was particularly maniacal. Using the alias "Kurdi Bear" for communications with Israeli soldiers, he drank bottle after bottle of whiskey as he destroyed house after house in the terrorized refugee camp. Protected by the might of the Israeli Army, fueled by his "liquid courage" and possessed by something vile, the Israeli nut case worked for 75 straight hours, night and day, ripping walls out, crushing houses down and burying Palestinian people alive - people who knew they'd be shot dead by Israeli soldiers if they tried to escape their houses.

Afterwards, Moshe Nissim was so pleased with himself that he wrote an article for Yediot Aharonot, an Israeli newspaper, in which he boasted of his heroic exploits. Freely admitting that he had brought an ample supply of booze to fortify himself for the task, he nevertheless insisted that he saw no people underneath his bulldozer blade. Obviously however, considering what a hallucinatory state he must have been in, drinking bottles of whiskey and going without sleep for 75 hours, it's not likely he would have found it easy to distinguish a human being from the broken rubble and clouds of dust, nor heard their desperate screams over the roar of the giant bulldozer engine. In an attempt to portray himself as a fine and righteous, moral human being, however, he claimed that he "felt sorry" for Palestinian children. And yet he admitted quite openly that he "had no mercy" for any of their parents he might have buried alive.

Moshe Nissim wrote further:

"Even a pregnant woman - shoot her without mercy, if she has a person behind her. This is the way I thought in Jenin." This is the way most Israeli soldiers think, not just this drunken hypocrite.

In the end, the hate-and-alcohol-intoxicated Israeli psychopath flattened so many Palestinian houses that there was a huge, completely devastated area in the center of the refugee camp. Far from having any shame, Moshe Nissim says he gave a "gift" to the Palestinians, because now they have a nice, big, open "football field" in which to play.

Aftermath

When the psychopathic bulldozer operators left and the bestial Israeli soldiers were finally finished with their sadistic dissolution, they strutted proudly out of the hell-realm they had created, grinning and waving victory salutes, telling each other what brave heroes they all were. Naturally Ariel Sharon was proud of his fellow baby-persons, and he praised "our wonderful soldiers" for the great job they did.

Israeli tanks finally withdrew from the suffering camp, but they kept it surrounded, and entertained themselves through the long dull hours of guard duty by firing occasional rounds at people who tried to return to their destroyed houses, searching for survivors. Also from safe distances, equally cowardly Israeli snipers shot at Palestinian people who were desperately digging with their bare hands through the mbuttive piles of twisted, broken rubble in hopes of finding their loved ones still alive.

When relief workers were finally allowed by the Israelis to enter the devastated camp, they were shaken by what they found. Corpses were lying all over the place, crawling with flies and worms, and the smell of rotting human flesh was everywhere. Particularly around and upon the mounds of bulldozed houses, people could smell the decaying corpses in the rubble below their feet.

Terje Roed-Larsen, the UN special envoy, said:

"We have expert people here who have been in war zones and earthquakes, and they say they have never seen anything like it. It is horrifying beyond belief."

The Jenin refugee camp was home to 13,000 people, most of whom were refugees (and the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees) from the Haifa area - from which they fled Israeli terrorism in 1948.