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Hamas' war crimes
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 10, 2009 | Alan M. Dershowitz

Posted on 01/10/2009 5:45:19 PM PST by Kaslin

In Gaza, it targets Israeli citizens with rockets, then shields its fighters behind Palestinian civilians.

A temporary cease-fire in Gaza that simply allows Hamas to obtain more lethal weapons will assure a repetition of Hamas' win-win tactic of firing rockets at Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields.

The best example of Hamas' double war crime tactic was Tuesday, when it succeeded in sending a rocket to a town less than 20 miles south of Tel Aviv and injuring a child. At the same time, it provoked Israel to attack a United Nations school from which Hamas was launching its rockets. Residents of the neighborhood said two Hamas fighters were in the area at the time, and the Israeli military said they had been killed, according to the New York Times.

The Hamas tactic of firing rockets from schools, hospitals and mosques dates back to 2005, when Israel ended its occupation of Gaza. Several months ago, the head of the Israeli air force showed me a videotape (now available on YouTube) of a Hamas terrorist deliberately moving his rocket launcher to the front of a U.N. school, firing a rocket and then running away, no doubt hoping that Israel would then respond by attacking the rocket launcher and thus killing Palestinian children in the school.

This is the Hamas dual strategy: to kill and injure as many Israeli civilians as possible by firing rockets indiscriminately at Israeli civilian targets, and to provoke Israel to kill as many Palestinian civilians as possible to garner world sympathy.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dershowitz; gaza; hamas; humanshields; islam; israel; jihad; leftists; unholyalliance

1 posted on 01/10/2009 5:45:19 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

wait..I have to clean my bifocals..an accusation of HAMAS war crimes (hiding behind women and childre) from the LA Times??

this will be refuted by the NY Times as soon as they can..


2 posted on 01/10/2009 5:49:12 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: Kaslin

Got all excited but then realized it was an opinion piece.


3 posted on 01/10/2009 5:49:26 PM PST by icwhatudo
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To: Kaslin
First the NYT article and now this one on the tactics of Hamas...what is going on?
4 posted on 01/10/2009 5:49:54 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Kaslin
For a moment, I thought the Los Angeles Times had come to it senses. Upon closer scrutiny, they momentarily allowed a die-hard liberal the favor of writing commentary against Hama.
5 posted on 01/10/2009 5:50:31 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: Kaslin

Muslim scum = muslim scum.


6 posted on 01/10/2009 5:50:55 PM PST by South40
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To: Kaslin
Residents of a Gaza neighborhood are confirming Israel's claim that Hamas militants had opened fire from the cover of a U.N. school

wkyt

7 posted on 01/10/2009 5:52:52 PM PST by SouthTexas
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To: 2banana

only thing I can think of is “the one” is getting ready to “rule” so all the “rules” have changed regarding reporting (no Republican in the WH)..

only thing that makes sense..


8 posted on 01/10/2009 5:53:45 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Never mind where the commentary was in. the importance is the author. Now in contrast check this one out

Israel Is Committing War Crimes

9 posted on 01/10/2009 6:00:22 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

More than likely, a lot of the dead civilians we’re hearing about in the “news” were killed by the Islamofascists themselves who know that the white, college boys in the western “media” would be all over the story in order to turn “world opinion” against the Israelis and the U.S. That’s the way murdering terrorists usually operate. They know that the white boys in the western “media” are their friends.


10 posted on 01/10/2009 6:00:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (CIA Director!....So easy, a caveman can do it!)
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To: Kaslin

Hamas cited for doing something bad?

I thought it was all the Juice fault?

/s


11 posted on 01/10/2009 6:22:12 PM PST by Canedawg
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To: Kaslin

Didn’t see one You Tube video of the UN school and Hamas firing rockets...wonder if they’re taking them off...where O where is the truth? Israeli’s slaughtering children?? What is wrong with my last sentence?


12 posted on 01/10/2009 6:58:07 PM PST by Karliner (Golda Meir: “The wars will stop when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate us.")
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To: Kaslin

I remember another country that fired rockets indiscriminately against civilians. Some of their cities wound up burned to the ground.


13 posted on 01/10/2009 7:10:05 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: SouthTexas
Residents of a Gaza neighborhood are confirming Israel's claim that Hamas militants had opened fire from the cover of a U.N. school

And not a word of complaint from the UN -- Get the UN out of the US NOW!!

14 posted on 01/10/2009 7:12:09 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: Kaslin
Photobucket It's a good thing Hamas uses rockets instead of these, because then there would be real trouble. / sarc
15 posted on 01/10/2009 7:28:00 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: sionnsar

And you won’t hear anything either!

Neither will you hear them rescind their claim that the Israelis killed one of their drivers even though the investigation pointed the finger at Hamas.

Nor will you hear a peep from them after they got caught trying to smuggle in fatigues disguised as humanitarian aid.


16 posted on 01/10/2009 7:34:42 PM PST by SouthTexas
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To: SouthTexas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI

This is the video of the October 29, 2007 mortar launches from the UN school in Gaza.


17 posted on 01/10/2009 7:48:54 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel

BTTT


18 posted on 01/10/2009 9:07:43 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY! Pray for Israel. Pray for the US.)
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