Hamas Spokersman admits in using Children as human Shields In order to avoid civilian casualties, #Israel sends warning messages before attacking terrorist targets advising civilians to leave. #Israel prefers to attack empty buildings used to manufacture rockets, even taking into consideration that the terrorists too will be warned and their lives spared. Hamas, on the other hand, calls on civilians to come and to protect with their bodies (#HumanShield) the precise locations they expect Israel to attack. Since they know that Israel will usually strike from the air, they send the children to the roofs to prevent the air force from targeting that building. To enlighten those who may have harbored any doubts, Fathi Ahmad Hammad, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said it with pride: Palestinians deliberately use women and children as human shields. The enemies of Allah do not know that the #Palestinian people has developed its methods of death and death-seeking. For the #Paliestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed #human_shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the #Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death like you desire life. Hammad is a leader of the Izzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and in 2006 was elected to the Palestinian Parliament as a #Hamas representative. He is also director of Al-Aqsa TV, which aired his comments on February 29. Hammad disclosed Hamas strategy, which some have suspected but few have actually believed: use people, especially women and children, UN facilities and the press as human shields. This strategy has been immensely successful. Fire at Israel cities from school yards, and make Israel choose between allowing its own children to be targets or risking harm to others. Now we know beyond a doubt that Hamas knows what it is doing, and is doing it intentionally. But people still will not believe. The prevailing attitude is typified in the words of Javier Solana, head of foreign policy for the European Union: I cannot imagine that the religious imperative, the real religious imperative, can make anybody destroy another country. Therefore that is an abuse of religion. I dont think the essence of Hamas is the destruction of Israel. The essence of Hamas is the liberation of the Palestinians, the liberation of their people, not the destruction of Israel. This is the mistake Westerners, profoundly ignorant of history, make over and over again: to assume that all cultures everywhere hold the same values they do. This is a dangerous form of ethnocentrism. Perhaps if Solana had been listening, he would have heard how Hamas repeatedly proclaims its intention to destroy Israel. He might have seen the following on the Hamas web site: Israel will rise and will remain erect until #Islam eliminates it. Our struggle against the #Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave. The time will not come until #Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a #Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 06:02:27 +0000