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.
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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?h... (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.