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Hamas explains using civilians as human shields
Palestinian Media Watch ^ | December 29 2008 | Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Posted on 12/29/2008 9:13:16 AM PST by knighthawk

Hamas explains using civilians as human shields: "We desire death as you desire life." [Feb. 29, 2008]

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."

[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 29, 2008]


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hamas; humanshields; islam; israel; jihad
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1 posted on 12/29/2008 9:13:17 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: MizSterious; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...

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2 posted on 12/29/2008 9:13:39 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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3 posted on 12/29/2008 9:16:12 AM PST by null and void (Petroglyphs. The original cliffs notes...)
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To: knighthawk

Whatever their little hearts desire.


4 posted on 12/29/2008 9:16:12 AM PST by newbolt
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To: newbolt

“Whatever their little hearts desire.”

- - - and their little pea-brains


5 posted on 12/29/2008 9:17:56 AM PST by RoadTest (The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Jer.17:9)
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To: knighthawk

If they desire death more than life, why do they need land? Generally that is for living on....


6 posted on 12/29/2008 9:19:43 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: knighthawk

Cowards, all of them.


7 posted on 12/29/2008 9:20:08 AM PST by irishfox
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To: knighthawk

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.”

I believe the Israelis can accommodate that desire...

Colonel, USAFR


8 posted on 12/29/2008 9:20:16 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: knighthawk

This is so nuts.

If they desire death, then Israel should be their best friend right about now, what with granting them their wishes and all.


9 posted on 12/29/2008 9:21:38 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: knighthawk
The reason is they are cowards.

מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין

10 posted on 12/29/2008 9:25:17 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: knighthawk

If the Pallies desire death so much, why all the fuss? Aren’t their fondest desires being granted?


11 posted on 12/29/2008 9:25:26 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: knighthawk

“We desire death as you desire life.”
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Then why put your women and children in front of you in battle? Why hide then? Why escape when the Israelis are breathing down your neck? Why fire rockets and then run?
It appears that leadership doesn’t desire death at all. They volunteer their population to take up that worthy task.


12 posted on 12/29/2008 9:25:57 AM PST by Joan Kerrey
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To: knighthawk

“Kill them all. Nits make lice”... col. Chivington

“Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet.” (”Kill them all. God will know his own.” )....
Arnaud-Amaury, the Abbot of Citeaux,


14 posted on 12/29/2008 9:38:02 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (NEVER FORGET TREASON!)
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To: jagusafr
“I believe the Israelis can accommodate that desire...”

And should. Immediately. Unfortunately, not all Palestinians really want to die. Probably not even the folks asking to die. Hamas & Hezbollah need to be obliterated, and then maybe we can find out how the rest of them really feel.

WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)

15 posted on 12/29/2008 9:39:50 AM PST by Old Student (We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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To: knighthawk

I feel much less guilty, then, about my desire to see them all vanish from the face of the Earth. They want to die, I want them to die, we’re all in agreement.


16 posted on 12/29/2008 9:43:24 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
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To: Old Student

Agreed. I’ve always thought that the people who are oppressed by their own leaders need to step up to the plate and start taking action before they ask for help from outsiders - and thanks for your service.

Colonel, USAFR


17 posted on 12/29/2008 9:44:15 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: knighthawk

Satan sure has a quirky sense of humor.


18 posted on 12/29/2008 9:45:35 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Resist the Obamination!)
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To: knighthawk

Whom are we to say their logic is wrong? I say let them live and die by it.

Of course the only problem with this will be the next step of them taking hostages and using them, oops they have done this already also.

Wake up people these terrorist are in no way Gods chosen, unless your God is pure evil. Learn about there culture and learn they will lie in your face and strength is the only way to ensure your Life and your children’s lives.


19 posted on 12/29/2008 9:47:27 AM PST by jafojeffsurf (By the Way Happy New Year)
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To: knighthawk

Islam was started by a coward and still oeprates under cowardice.


20 posted on 12/29/2008 9:55:33 AM PST by CodeToad
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