“The U.N. General Assembly scheduled an emergency session Tuesday, with Arab and developing nations pressing to condemn Israel for alleged atrocities in the Jenin refugee camp and for blocking a U.N. fact-finding mission from looking into the fighting in the camp.

A draft resolution introduced by Sudan on behalf of the Arab Group of nations and by South Africa on behalf of the Nonaligned Movement of developing countries would ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan to submit a report on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities within two weeks,” The Nando Times reports.

The Arab Group decided to take the proposal to the 189-nation General Assembly, where support for the Palestinians is stronger than in the more powerful Security Council. The assembly’s resolutions cannot be vetoed but are not legally binding.

The Palestinians claim that Israeli troops committed atrocities during the April attack, an accusation Israel vehemently denies, saying its forces tried to minimize civilian casualties.

By the Palestinian Authority’s own reckoning, 56 Palestinians died in the Israeli military’s Jenin incursion — the overwhelming majority of whom were confirmed combatants. 33 Israeli soldiers died.

Still, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, shrieking and insistent dissemblage as a political tool has become so inveterate in the Arab world (precisely because it has proven so successful as a means of galvanizing “international opinion”) that Arab spokesmen rarely bother even disguising it anymore.

The one concession Arab spokespeople have made to the “massacre” narrative they peddled in the immediate aftermath of the Jenin incursion is to alter their characterization of Israeli military action a bit, replacing “massacre” with “atrocities” — while denying they’d ever leveled charges of a massacre (liars!) in the first place (as Palestinian mouthpiece Hasan Rahman did last evening during his predictable FOXNews filibuster).

Meanwhile, the UN will largely ignore the Arafat Files gathered by Israeli intelligence — evidence of Yasser Arafat’s actual participation in real “massacres,” “atrocities,” and “war crimes” — other than to issue some general condemnation of violence that draws false equivalencies between Palestinian terror factories and the Israeli self defense.

Sickening.

More, from Tiger Lily.

Related: Dov Fischer’s “The Overseers of Jenin“; Charles Krauthammer’s “Kofi’s Choice.”

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