Jul
27th
2006
hezbollah and the IDF: compare tactics
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True, true. Now it would be nice if the rest of the world could see the difference. To the terrorists, the ends justify the means.
This is probably the best illustration of the difference between Palestinian and Israeli soldiers that I have seen. Thanks for posting!
Here is an article everyone needs to read:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/438291p-369296c.html
I deplore the use of children as human shields. All who do this should be punished according to the gravity of their sin. However, I guess that the Israelis have caught on to this tactic and use it as well.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4825319/
http://www.btselem.org/english/Human_Shields/20060720_Human_Shields_in_Beit_Hanun.asp
curtis, i’m so proud of you for branching out to more mainstream sources like newsweek. i’m sure that took a lot of soul searching.
that first story, while apparently an isolated incident, sounds horrible. i wonder why newsweek doesn’t have the picture, though, if “human rights groups” got ahold of it? i would like to see the picture.
the second story is pretty much bunk.
how is that using someone as a human shield? they put the civilians out of the direct line of fire and behind them (see the picture showing their tactics, above). the only human shield they allegedly used was the 43 year-old, who one soldier forced to open some doors inside the building. presumably she lived there and knew the people inside? did they ask her to communicate with the people inside before she opened the doors? was the reason they asked her to open the doors that they thought the people inside each one would open fire, or is that just the author’s assumption? he seems to kind of loosely assume: “apparently out of fear that….”
the latter doesn’t seem to be an egregious use of human shields. i’d like to know a little more about the first instance, if you can find that information.
Another must read.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2006/07/28/israel:_keep_rolling
Now the soldier represented on the left…is he strictly Palestinian or does he simply represent Israel’s Arab enemies? (article title being Hezbollah…)
I loved that article, Ryan! The Hammer always Rocks! Now about this kid used as a human shield in the Newsweek article. Isn’t Newsweek the same publication that published the Koran-being-flushed-down-the-toilet hoax? How many people got killed because of that story? Now how many innocents will be killed because of this new propoganda?
Whatever the cost, whatever it takes, Islamofascism must be defeated.
Wow, Lucy,
Any past mistake and you automatically discount any subsequent reporting that doesn’t fit your view of the world from that source. In that case, you’d better discount the entire western media that reported verbatim faulty government information on WMD’s in Iraq.
This cartoon really depicts the ignorance of the right. Of course this is a caricature of the guerilla tactics being waged by the Palistinians. The problem with the right is that they don’t realize is that guerilla warfare is what smart groups do when they are fighting an enemy with using a disproportionate force. It’s common throughout history. If George had done his homework he might have noticed this. Oh I forgot he chickened out of Vietnam. Cheney too. Wolfowitz too. etc., etc. etc.
To suggest that the Palestinians actually hate their children is ludicrous. The dehumanization of people with cartoons such as this really goes beyond the pale.
some of this intelligent and admirable guerilla fighting is now (allegedly) here in the US: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5226390.stm
Well I see what your problem is now. You suffer from that terrible myopia that afflicts so many in the White House. You have never understood the enemby. I thought that was rule number one in warfare. Understand your enemy. Know what his motivations are. Know every last detail about him. That’s what we should have learned in Vietnam. What fighting within civillian populations actually worked effectively form them. No kidding. Did you expect them to line up and march out in their red coats? Unfortunately this administration was playing hooky when the Viet Cong was working their magic. Those that weren’t had the wool pulled over their eyes by Cheney and Co with their slam dunk case.
As far as the few bad apples who actually do hide behind children, again, to suggest that the Palistinians or Muslims in general do not love their children is beyond ridiculous. You know, they too can make sweeping generalizations (and indeed they do) about us based on the Abu Graibs. The murders and rapes the few soldiers have committed. It’s nice to see you stooping to their level to label everyone based on the actions of a few. Then you whine when they do the same.
like these few isolated acts terrorists have committed against civilians:
like the (what was it?) seven americans convicted in the abu-graib scandal and the two or three involved in the recent iraq rape-killing, these very, very, very few heinous incidents perpetrated by islamic militants are just giving us a bad impression of al-qaeda. we’re all getting our panties in a bunch about nothing.
Try the 40,000 to 100,000 Iraqi civillians killed because of the ignorance and lies of Bushitler. The kill rate of innocent people is worse now than when Sadam was in office.
Torture was endemic in the 82nd Airborne at Abu-Graib. Everyone there participated apparently.
“Since then, the Army has opened more than 400 inquiries into detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, and punished 230 enlisted soldiers and officers.”
Sounds like a bit bigger than what you describe above eh Travis?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/politics/24abuse.html?ei=5089&en=5b2cfb87ee611c97&ex=1285214400&pagewanted=print
What is Israel’s condition before the Lord in these days with its onslaught against Lebanon and Gaza (and possibly to include Syria in upcoming days)?
Here is what Isaiah has to say from Chapter 59:
Sound familiar?
By the way, I found an article discussing the Israel Lobby and it’s power.
http://www.counterpunch.org/hayden07202006.html
[...] –Steven Valentine, comment, July 2006 [link] Travis, Travis, Travis….That really is a Coultergeist. This self-righteous tone of yours is really immature (Coulteresque….beyond silly)….You are in no position to make any sort of judgment. The idea of you on a righteous throne is laughable. Again, you need to develop some critical thinking skills. I know that is difficult at BYU where you all get the cookie cutter education but it can be done…. Actually Travis I was admitted to BYU and received a “Y†scholarship. Thank heavens I chose not to get a cookie cutter education; I have critical thinking skills unlike so many I see coming out of that place. Maybe I can loan some to you (or Napolean (sic) Dynamite) Are you saying that your jokes are in poor taste like many of those of Letterman and Leno? I would agree there. Wow, this was an immature post. [...]