Rattling the Cage: The moral superiority of an F-16

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 2009 0204 | By LARRY DERFNER

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Ordinarily, we Israelis tell ourselves that we are morally superior to the Palestinians because they're terrorists and we're not, they deliberately target civilians and we don't. After this last war in Gaza, though, we can't really tell that to ourselves because it's not very convincing.

After all, Hamas only killed three civilians with rockets during the war, while we killed several hundred Gazan civilians with all sorts of hi-tech weapons. Hamas did very little property damage here, while we destroyed thousands upon thousands of Gazan homes and civic buildings. So the argument that the Palestinians fight civilians and we don't is a little too farfetched, a little too ridiculous, to convince ourselves of our moral superiority in Operation Cast Lead.

This time, we don't talk so much about terrorism, about how the Hamasniks made war against our civilians. Instead, we talk about human shields, about how the Hamasniks used Palestinian civilians for protection while they were fighting our soldiers. The point remains - they fight dirty and we fight clean.

As I've written, we're distorting the meaning of the term "human shields" for propaganda purposes. Palestinian civilians offered little or no protection to Hamas fighters during the war: The civilian death, injury and property damage toll in Gaza makes that pretty clear. During the war, we heard time and again from the army that the standing order was to "fire at the source of incoming fire"

SO IF the Palestinians weren't fighting a terror war this time because they were up against an army,

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Thanks justiceseeker93.

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GAZA: Speaking of Hamas, [WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO] here's a shocking reality you are not likely to see in the mainstream media. Yes, these are same murderous thugs seen here forcing captives to leap from buildings who also deliberately and routinely target Israeli civilians with rockets and suicide bombers. Yet the press portrays them as victims and the Israelis (who go to enormous lengths to avoid civilian casualties) as aggressors?

Video Hamas killing Fatah members in Gaza

OK for Palestinians to kill other Palestinians

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Larry The Demented Doofus..