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Congress utilizes myth of "human shields" to justify war crimes
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 10/30/2014 | Stephen Zunes

Posted on 10/30/2014 6:33:42 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The international community, led by the United Nations and human rights groups, has expressed its outrage at attacks on civilians by both Hamas and Israel during this summer's fighting. Israeli forces killed nearly 1,500 civilians, including 500 children, during its seven-week bombardment of the crowded enclave known as the Gaza Strip. However, the right-wing Israeli government has repeatedly claimed the civilians killed by their forces during the war were a result of Hamas using "human shields," defined under international law as "Utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operation."

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The Palestinians are going to have to learn that when they lob missiles out of Gaza into Israel the Israelis are going to open a can of whoop ass and respond vigorously.
1 posted on 10/30/2014 6:33:42 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Funny how the Criminal UN and “human rights groups” Lump Isreal in with hamas for the killing of civilians. They cant bring themselevs to single out hamas becuase the UN are animals just like they are


2 posted on 10/30/2014 6:38:20 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: artichokegrower

When you put military equipment next to a school, and an attack against that equipment blows up the school, it is the one who placed the equipment there that committed the war crime.


3 posted on 10/30/2014 6:38:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ronnie raygun

Well, yeah. Look at the numbers of Arab and Muslim countries, and add on many of those that want stuff from those countries...and you get a majority in the UN.


4 posted on 10/30/2014 6:40:58 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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"The Santa Cruz Sentinel"

Confiscate the Santa Cruz Leftist hipsters pot, and they won't have the time, or inclination to whine about Pali human shields.

5 posted on 10/30/2014 6:44:47 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: artichokegrower

Hmmmmm...

Believe Israel....?

Or believe the lying, ill-educated, bottom of the SAT barrel liberal scum MSM?

Choices...choices.


6 posted on 10/30/2014 6:47:21 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: artichokegrower

Lets see. If the bad guys use women and kids as shields than Israel should just back off and let the bad guys kill them? But won’t that promote the use of human shields in the future? Which is the real war crime?


7 posted on 10/30/2014 7:00:33 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: artichokegrower

Moonbat Sentinel?


8 posted on 10/30/2014 7:22:01 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: artichokegrower

Dresden 1945, Tokyo 1945. STFU, Zunes.


9 posted on 10/30/2014 8:41:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: kiryandil

Anti-Semitism (along with selfish eco-Nimbyism) was the very foundation of the progressive movement that took over Santa Cruz County in the 1970s. The “Resource Center For Nonviolence” was established as an anti-Israel bastion and they ran political campaigns out of the building.


10 posted on 10/30/2014 8:50:55 PM PDT by BlopAndStop
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