AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE: Hirsch Goodman, an editor of the Jerusalem Report who has been a persistent critic of Sharon and Netanyahu, had the following exchange with a Norweigan radio host while the battle of Jenin was raging:

"How," I was asked, "is the Israeli media covering the massacre in Jenin?""Are you so sure there is a massacre in Jenin?" I replied.
"Of course I’m sure, I read it here in our morning papers and see it on television: Hundreds have been killed. It’s a massacre."
"You think Israeli troops would commit a massacre?" I asked.
"It looks like it," he responded.
"Are we on air live?"
"Yes," he said.
"Well f... you," I said.

Regarding the Norweigan boycott of Israeli products in reaction to the non-existent "massacre," Goodman states:

The Europeans, and the European press in particular, owe Israel an apology. They lied. There was no massacre in Jenin. There was probably less collateral damage in almost two weeks of fighting in dense urban areas than in one day of NATO bombardment of Belgrade. It took 18 months of violence and almost 500 killed, two-thirds of them civilians, before Israel went into Jenin. The allies did not wait that long before they reduced Milosevic’s Yugoslavia to rubble.
So if there is going to be a boycott, perhaps Jewish caterers should stop serving Norwegian salmon and Danish herring and Belgian chocolates and French champagne, and Jewish tourists choose other destinations for their vacation this year. As for those Germans who seemed only too happy to start Jew-bashing again, perhaps there is still some work to be done on that Holocaust thing. Remember?