Posted on 07/31/2014 9:43:18 AM PDT by Dave346
If you want to judge a nation, look at how it treats its most vulnerable civilians. Hospitals are a good place to start.
Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, is housed in a converted British army barracks. Some 126 miles north is Israel’s Ziv Medical Center in Zefat.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, is using the civilian population as human shields. The terrorist group has placed its missiles in schools and mosques and, even more deplorably, burrowed its command center underneath the al-Shifa hospital.
Hamas‘ activities are taking place in plain sight. Just two weeks ago, The Washington Post described al-Shifa as “a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders.” These terrorist facilities are of course well known not only to the foreign journalists who interview Hamas fighters there, but also to the Israelis, who would by necessity consider such a location a legitimate target for any action against Hamas. However, the terrorist group has tried to immunize their headquarters by digging it under a hospital, leaving Israel no option but to target al-Shifa if they want to get rid of the Hamas terrorist leadership.
Hamas sees no downside in this arrangement. Knowing that Israel prioritizes protecting civilians, the terrorists can be reasonably confident that al-Shifa will not be targeted, and they can continue their murderous activities undisturbed. If the Israelis finally decide that these activities are intolerable and that to destroy Hamas they must target their headquarters, Hamas will have pictures of the quintessentially innocent martyrs — hospital patients unable to flee — to plaster across international media in their ongoing propaganda war to demonize the Jewish state.
The medical care and even survival of the Gazan people are of no concern to these terrorists, for whom casualties are not an unintended consequence of war, but rather a deliberate objective.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
War crimes! Is there were any better reason for a sovereign nation to protect itself from the barbarians at the gate?
Molech! The willful and bloody sacrifice of children.
Make sure the leaders are there. Then bomb the hospital into the 7th century.
Just say, “oops.”
The other is a RINO POS.
Anybody remember the first thing the Pallies did when the Jewish settlers were cleared out of Gaza in the last "Land for Peace" fiasco?
The settlers had acres of high tech greenhouses which were being used to grow produce for export cash which they left in nice, operable condition.
If you guessed "smash them up and render them useless" then go to the head of the class.
Bookmark.
After four decades of wanton demonicrats and RINOs advocating, legalizing, and funding the butchering of 55 million unborn children one shudders to think about what awaits the United States.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Actually they did one other thing just as quickly. Just to celebrate they fired some rockets into Israel. Yes, the rockets and grenades started already the first day after Israel left Gaza.
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