Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Honest Reporting has done their usual yeoman's work in addressing and debunking the latest calumnies against the IDF, one in from the Israeli press, the second from the usual British suspect, The Guardian: "War Crimes" and Shoddy Journalism.
The first involves supposed admissions of war crimes committed by IDF troops in Gaza (also addressed by CAMERA here: Charges of IDF "Wanton Killing" Crumble). The second is a response to a supposed "investigation" by The Guardian into IDF action in Gaza, also ably addressed at length by Melanie Phillips here: The Guardian goes to Pallywood.
When it comes to calumny against Israel (or the US for that matter), a skeptical examination of the evidence is rarely in the offing. Any accusation will do.
There is this report
IDF Investigation Refutes the Testimonies About Gaza Killings.
Published in Maariv 03/23/2009
Officers from the brigade suspect that fighters who remained in the lower
story of the Palestinian house thought that he hit the the women, and from
there the rumor that a sniper killed a mother and her two daughters spread.
Regarding the second incident, in which it was claimed that soldiers went up to the roof to entertain themselves with firing and killed an elderly Palestinian woman, the brigade commander investigation found that there was no such incident.