We are not in a position to determine which press source is more
reliable. That being said, the safe way is to restrict ourselves to
those facts on which the sources agree. Calling this squad terrorists,
calling their act murder, presuming that the squad was from Al-Aqsa,
gratuitously making the link with Fateh and Arafat, making the technical
determination the the missiles were specifically Qassam rockets all seem
to be strategies to inflame the issue with unverified facts.
Ec
Harry Smith wrote:
I need your help. Zero0000 is insisting upon a
verison of events that is based upon a single report
in AFP. The BBC, NYT, HaAretz, INN all disagree with
Zero0000's version. This is detailed in a table on
[[Talk:Current Events]]. Zero0000 is also
insisting, that a different article in HaAretz is a
retraction of an earlier one...there is no indication
of such in the article itself. While that article
details other deaths in this horrible conflict,
nowhere does it discuss the incident of Hassan Zaanin.
Zero0000's version:
* An 18-year-old [[Palestinian]], Hassan Zaanin, is
shot dead in Beit Hanoun in the [[Gaza Strip]] when
heand his familiy attempt to stop Palestinian gunmen
from planting an anti-tank explosive outside their
house.[http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/455715.html
(Haaretz)]
[
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3920181.stm
(BBC)]
My version:
* [[Palestinian terrorism|Palestinian terrorist]]s
of the [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]] an armed branch
of
[[Yasser Arafat]]'s [[Fatah]] organization,
[[murder]] 16-year-old [[Palestinian]] Hassan
Al-Za'nin and shoot several members of his family,
when the family refuses to allow the terrorists to use
the Al-Za'nin property as a [[Qassam rocket]] launch
site.
[
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3920181.stm
(BBC)]
[
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/international/middleeast/23CND-MIDE.html?…
(NYT)]
[
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=66197 (INN)]
[
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/455377.html
(HaAretz)]
To prevent me from insisting that the more common
version be used, he is blocking IP addresses that I
use. Please help in preventing Zero0000 from doing
this.