'A Tower of Falsehoods': When a 'massacre' is not a massacre.(evaluation of claims that Israelis committed atrocities in Jenin)

Jenin is an attractive, rather sleepy town set amid the beautiful hills of the West Bank. For some time now, Palestinian extremists have found the refugee camp there a good cover from which to prepare and launch suicide bombers against Israel. Mao Tse-tung said that guerrillas ought to move among the locals as fish swim in the sea. Following that precept, Palestinian terrorists set up shop at Jenin. Established about 50 years ago, the camp has evolved into something like an Arab village of its own, with winding alleys, shops, two- and three-story houses, a busy communal life. I haven't been back for several years, but when I was last there the inhabitants well understood ...