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Use of human shields by terrorists (view source)
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And it worked brilliantly. The international media which dutifully reported on Israel’s “disproportionate response”, the human cost, the carnage in Gaza, largely ignored the fact that the citizens of a democratic country spent days and nights in bomb shelters, and completely ignored the reason why Gazans have no bomb shelters. Not through lack of money, but rather because Hamas needs Gazans to die to achieve its objective – the excision and destruction of Israel.
And it worked brilliantly. The international media which dutifully reported on Israel’s “disproportionate response”, the human cost, the carnage in Gaza, largely ignored the fact that the citizens of a democratic country spent days and nights in bomb shelters, and completely ignored the reason why Gazans have no bomb shelters. Not through lack of money, but rather because Hamas needs Gazans to die to achieve its objective – the excision and destruction of Israel.
Online has become even more of a cesspool of antisemitism...</blockquote></ref><ref>Richard Landes (@richard_landes) Tweeted [https://twitter.com/richard_landes/status/640915923222687745?s=20 Sep 7, 2015]:
Online has become even more of a cesspool of antisemitism...</blockquote></ref><ref>Mark Silverberg, " [https://marksilverberg.com/unhrc-report-ignores-the-implications-of-the-gaza-war UNHRC Report ignores the implications of the Gaza war]," June 24, 2015.<br><i>
What is not addressed in the Report however is the rationale behind Hamas’s use of human shields and civilian infrastructures as an integral part of its war tactics. Hamas made it clear to Gaza’s civilians that those fleeing the fighting would be considered collaborators (which, in Gaza, is the equivalent of a death sentence) if they didn’t stay put. As Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan said in May: “The Arab nations came to understand that they will not be able to defeat Israel on the battlefield, and therefore decided to transfer the battlefield to the civilian population. The only change on the Palestinian side was an under-the-radar tactical change, but this change still adheres to their original agenda – the total rejection of the Jewish state. Instead of tank battles in distant deserts, the Palestinians transferred their battles to densely populated areas where the civilians serve as human shields.”
This tactic is part of what several Middle-East scholars have termed the “dead baby” strategy. A widely circulated cartoon makes this point effectively:
[http://gatestoneinstitute.org/pics/large/165.jpg]</i></ref><ref>Richard Landes (@richard_landes) Tweeted [https://twitter.com/richard_landes/status/640915923222687745?s=20 Sep 7, 2015]:
Will Chris Gunness ever be held to account for his role in Hamas' cannibalistic "dead baby" strategy? http://t.co/zyiJm7c2L0 </ref><ref>Richard Kemp (@COLRICHARDKEMP) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/COLRICHARDKEMP/status/491612158933733377?s=20 July 22, 2014]):
Will Chris Gunness ever be held to account for his role in Hamas' cannibalistic "dead baby" strategy? http://t.co/zyiJm7c2L0 </ref><ref>Richard Kemp (@COLRICHARDKEMP) Tweeted ([https://twitter.com/COLRICHARDKEMP/status/491612158933733377?s=20 July 22, 2014]):
.@shashj Inflammatory comments encourage violence in Europe; validating Hamas dead baby strategy encourages wider use of human shields.</ref>
.@shashj Inflammatory comments encourage violence in Europe; validating Hamas dead baby strategy encourages wider use of human shields.</ref>