There is a certain obvious retrogression in the visages...
Posted on 12/29/2008 11:34:15 AM PST by PRePublic
Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
"We desire death as you desire life."
The UN announcement that 51 civilians have died in the conflict in Gaza must be understood in the context of Hamas's declared ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters. Indeed, Hamas continues to emphasize and promote the religious ideology that death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued.
The goal is to convince Palestinians, including women and children, not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters. Hamas's placement of its military installations and fighters among civilians reflects this ideology, and has led to these 51 deaths.
A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a "death industry" at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians "desire death" with the same intensity that Israelis "desire life."
The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: "For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life."http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html
I think history has proven time and again that those who fight to live are always stronger than those who fight to die.
There is a certain obvious retrogression in the visages...
HAMAS knows that they will not be held responsible for endangering their own women and children by hiding amongst them when they fire rockets/mortars.
They hope that their own civilians will be hurt as a result, because they have every reason to expect to successfully flog these losses for political capital.
Westerners who play into this are more to blame than the terrorists who perpetrate the carnage. By creating an incentive to continue this, Western apologists have the lion’s share of innocent blood on their hands.
That photo looks like Patients in a locked Psychiatric Facility.
Just as the Hezbollah succeeded in gathering support as martyrs in their SICK world.
so no need for guilt trips
Otherwise known as "UN Member Nation residents", or "Obama voters".
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