screaming for a bulldozer to come, screaming for face masks, flashlights and body bags...

Dear Friends,

Would that i had my copy of Faustus here, to provide the exact quote that has been in my mind since i first stepped into the horror of anti-humanity that is now Jenin Camp, the exchange in which Mephistopholes points out to Faustus that hell already exists here on earth. After what i have witnessed there, i am beyond quotes, beyond words, almost but not quite beyond tears, which flowed last night even in my sleep. The Israelis conducted a ruthless, calculated massacre and left in its wake an abyss of sorrow, anger and vengefulness. If Sharon had himself entered Jenin and carried out these atrocities, the shock factor might not be so great, yet there were 20,000 israelis in that camp, operating under gestapo-like orders and thus, Israel is also going to suffer from this as well, as it must in the eyes of justice - if any justice can still be found in the world today.


At least half the camp has been flattened. The IDF set its bulldozers at the top of the hill and kept going until they reached the bottom. People were buried alive and the location of the bodies is done by a mixture of scenting out the corpses and getting recollections by survivors of who ran into which house, or under which set of stairs, during one or another F-16, Cobra or Apache attack. Three days ago a teenager was pulled out alive, but the rest of his family, all dead, are still under the rubble. i read that Shimon Peres is claiming only 3 non-combatants were killed and am truly stunned by the shameless embedded in such a statement. Based on what i have seen with my own eyes and smelled with my own nose, i think it is safe to safe there must be at least dozens, if not more, still laying under the pile. This does not include the places where people have told me they saw israeli soldiers dumping bodies into mass graves. We won't know the reality of this for some time, as it will be a while yet before people will turn their attention to someplace other than the pile.