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Terrorist use of human shields, Palestinian civilians

Hamas, not Israel, should be tried for war crimes



While the Israeli-Hamas war raged on, we saw the usual idiots making unfounded anti-Israeli condemnations. The criticisms come at a time when Hamas terrorists are using Palestinian civilians as human shields to block Israeli fire. This is also a time when Hamas is using this war and their propaganda to cover their deliberate murders of Palestinian civilians who are part of the Fatah organization.

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Despite these happenings, the first condemnation of Israel comes from the International Red Cross (IRC), who recently broke their professional neutrality by publicly blaming Israel for not allowing them access to a danger zone to treat the wounded.  The implication being that Israelis are heartless and uncaring about the Palestinian civilians caught in the crossfire.        Despite the IRC's loss of objectivity, there is another reason why they are wrong about Israel.  First, any check of news articles going back to the beginning of this war, will reveal that Israelis have allowed humanitarian groups to treat the injured and even allowed Palestinians to evacuate certain areas to enter hospitals for treatment.  Also, Israel has warned civilians of impending strikes since before the war began.  Further Israel has shown great caution about civilian lives in past wars while the terrorists have shown none.  Hence, Israel's overall record shows that Israeli soldiers are conscientious towards civilian casualties.       That, and the fact there is a war brewing, adds credence to Israel's claim that it refused the IRC entry into that particular danger zone because there was too much fighting there.  The IRC workers have enough commonsense to understand that war could have endangered their lives upon entry.  Yet they pretend that Israelis are preventing their entry out of callousness.  Why? Irrational bias against Israel and a possible sympathy towards the Hamas terrorists.  The IRC merely used civilian casualties as the convenient excuse to openly condemn Israel, especially when Israel was struggling to defend itself from terrorists.  In the process, the IRC was silent about Hamas staring the war and causing Palestinian and Israeli deaths.  This reveals the IRC's lack of moral clarity.      Hence, there is good reason to assume the IRC has more hatred for Israeli self-defenders than for the murderous terrorists.  This in turn strengthens the possibility that the IRC is sympathetic towards Hamas.  This greater hatred for Israel (and possible terrorist sympathy) comes at a time when Hamas started the war against Israeli civilians, used Palestinians to block Israeli fire, and murdered Palestinian members of the Fatah organization.  Condemning Israel at such a time shows that the IRC is building on the terrorists' actions in adding extra pressure on Israelis whose lives are being attacked.  This is morally disgraceful on the IRC’s part.  In effect, if not intent, the IRC relied on the terrorist attacks to emphasize their anti-Israeli criticisms. This is like a third person criticizing a mugging victim who is currently being beaten by a thug.          The other erroneous criticism Israel haters level at Israelis is that Israel is using disproportionate force.  Some people are supporting this claim by citing the greater number of Palestinian deaths than Israeli deaths.  Yet the greater numbers of Palestinian deaths occur only because of the two reasons mentioned earlier: 1) Hamas is constantly hiding behind civilians’ homes, hospitals, etc. and 2) Hamas is deliberately murdering Palestinians who are part of the moderate Fatah organization.  Clifford D. May of the Scripps Howard News Service discusses this in his article, “Hamas' Other War.” A copy of this article can be found at the defenddemocracy.org website.  Add to Hamas's murder tactics the fact that decades of fighting terrorists has enabled Israel to have a very efficient warning system for Israeli civilians and you can understand why there have been significantly lower Israeli civilian casualties than Palestinian ones.  But more Israeli civilians will die if Hamas rocket fire continues---hence, the necessity for Israel to continue defending itself.      Because of their use of Palestinians as human shields to block Israeli fire, Hamas terrorists are the only ones blameworthy of Palestinian (and Israeli) civilian deaths.  Hamas, not Israel, should be tried for war crimes.         Israel's fight against terror aids America's fight against terrorism.  If Israel permanently defeats Hamas terrorists, then that is one more group of terrorists that US enemy Iran can potentially use against Americans.  Helping Israel defeat their terrorist enemies also guarantees that America will not lose a valuable ally in the war on terrorism. But Israel must ignore the current ceasefire and continue fighting until Hamas terrorists are permanently defeated. Otherwise, Hamas will re-continue their rocket attacks in the future.


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George Koukeas is a freelance writer focusing on political news and commentary and has been published in newspapers, magazines and websites. 


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