Wednesday, January 28, 2009

That Hamas Body Armor Advert



Found over at Pam of Atlas Shrugs

7 comments:

Jameel @ The Muqata said...

As bad as it is -- Hamas is really worse.

g said...

First of all, this is no "satire" for any human it's not funny.

Second, read this...

Israel accused of using Palestinian children as human shieldsConal Urquhart in Tel Aviv guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 March 2007 11.48 GMT Article history

Sameh Amira is escorted by heavily armed Israeli soldiers on a door-to-door sweep in Nablus, providing some of the strongest evidence to date that the Israeli army is still using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA

The Israeli army is investigating whether its troops used two Palestinian children as human shields during a house search operation in the West Bank following claims by the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem.

The use of human shields to deter gunmen from opening fire on soldiers was banned by Israel's supreme court and forbidden by the army. However the practice, in which soldiers force Palestinians to approach, enter and search buildings where they believe gunmen may be hiding, remains common.


Israelis soldiers were filmed using Sameh Amira, 24, as a human shield on February 25, during a week-long raid into the West Bank city of Nablus. Mr Amira was made to search homes in the city's casbah, or old city, during a search for wanted men and bomb-making laboratories. The casbah in the centre of the city was placed under curfew for two days and a Palestinian man was shot dead when he went onto the roof of his home.


Mr Amira's cousin, 15-year-old Amid Amira, told B'Tselem that soldiers also forced him to search three houses, making him enter rooms, empty cupboards and open windows.


An 11-year-old girl, Jihan Dadush, told B'Tselem that soldiers took her from her home three days later, on February 28, forcing her to open the door of a neighboring apartment and enter ahead of them. The soldiers then took her home, she said.


In her testimony to B'Tselem, Jihan said that after the soldiers left, "I was shaking with fear. I was afraid they would kill me or put me in jail. The only thing I wanted to do was sleep. I am afraid that the soldiers will come back and take me".


B'Tselem said that it was clear from the testimonies that the soldiers believed the houses presented a risk and that they were therefore knowingly placing the Palestinians in danger.


Sarit Michaeli, a spokeswoman for B'Tselem said that the group had written to the judge advocate-general to demand a thorough investigation of the use of human shields. "The use of civilians especially a 11-year-old is very problematic and we want the army to investigate it properly using military police rather than an internal inquiry mechanism."


In August 2002, a 19-year-old Palestinian student, Nidal Daraghmeh, was killed when troops in the West Bank town of Tubas forced him to knock on the door of a neighbouring building where a Hamas fugitive was hiding. Gunfire erupted and Daraghmeh was killed.

Yesh Din, another Israeli human rights group, has reported that the Israeli army used peaceful Palestinian villages to carry out training exercises. The group said that the villagers were harassed and scared as two battalions of reservists acted out a battle in their midst for three hours. The exercises were carried out without warning in the early morning in the villages of Beit Lid and Safarin last month

Anonymous said...

This is no comparison Galia, you may not like what the Israeli soldiers are doing and we can argue about the morality of using the enemy as shields but the comparison would be if Israeli soldiers if they took their own children and used them as human shields. That’s just cowardly and sick. To sacrifice you own children just to gain brownie points on CNN!!??. That’s not morally debatable, that’s just a sign of a sick death driven society.

Anonymous said...

Oh, Galia

By the way, you can read this.
Jan 29, 2009 Gaza victims describe human shield use.

Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields.


They told the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper that for years Hamas had used their property and homes as military installations from which the group would launch rockets into Israel, dig tunnels and store arms. According to the victims, those who tried to object were shot in the legs by Hamas operatives.

Palestinian Media Watch quoted the official Palestinian Authority daily, Al-Hayat al-Jadida as reporting on January 27, "The Abd Rabbo family kept quiet while Hamas fighters turned their farm in the Gaza strip into a fortress. Right now they are waiting for the aid promised by the [Hamas] movement after Israel bombed the farm and turned it into ruins."

According to the report, the hill on which the Abd Rabbo family lives overlooks Sderot, making it an ideal military position for Hamas fighters.

The Abd Rabbo family members emphasized to the paper that they were not Hamas activists and that they were still loyal to the Fatah movement, but that they had been unable to prevent the armed squads from entering their neighborhood at night.

g said...

Moshe,
I dont believe that Palestinians using their own children as human shields. I think that palestinian men are just like any other men, i am married to a Palestinian man and he loves children dearly and he would rather die himself then would let anyone to hurt his child or me his wife.
I believe the notion of Palestinians using human shields is part of israeli propaganda with a purpose to demonize ARabs and create an image of enemy.
I don't trust Palestinian Media Watch,
"Palestinian Media Watch has been playing the critical role of documenting the contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages to their own people in Arabic. The world’s view of the Palestinian Authority, to a significant degree, is the result of Palestinian Media Watch research'
and we know how distorted that is.
It's run by Jews, if you want to read impartial news read http://www.btselem.org/English/ Jewish run website.

g said...

Maybe Jews just projecting your own sickness onto others?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJa_vMbKllk

Anonymous said...

The never answer by "palestianism" propagamdists to:


What would happen if mighty [yet humane] Israel wouldn't be so careful in not hitting the unnamed?