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Hamas "Explains" Use of Civilians as Human Shields
newsblaze ^ | Dec 29, 2008

Posted on 12/29/2008 11:34:15 AM PST by PRePublic

Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

"We desire death as you desire life."

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."http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html


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1 posted on 12/29/2008 11:34:15 AM PST by PRePublic
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Satire?


2 posted on 12/29/2008 11:35:43 AM PST by Tigercap
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If they desire death, why all the whining when they get it???


3 posted on 12/29/2008 11:36:18 AM PST by Texican72
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"We desire death as you desire life."

Patton: Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

4 posted on 12/29/2008 11:36:22 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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Palestinians "desire death" with the same intensity that Israelis "desire life."

The solution is at hand!

5 posted on 12/29/2008 11:36:23 AM PST by ducdriver (99% of liberals give the other 1% a bad name.)
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....not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters.

IOW, we have lousy fighters.........

6 posted on 12/29/2008 11:37:24 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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To: PRePublic

H_A_M_A_S

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HAVING A MENTAL ANXIETY SYNDROME


7 posted on 12/29/2008 11:40:13 AM PST by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Seperation of Church and State)
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8 posted on 12/29/2008 11:42:15 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Proud member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!)
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To: Texican72

great point and lets hope Israel continues to do their best until each one of these damn 7th century muslim savages get what they wish for.


9 posted on 12/29/2008 11:43:38 AM PST by bobby.223
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They want to die, I want them to die. I think I see a win-win scenario here.


10 posted on 12/29/2008 11:48:11 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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Seven years of rocket attacks and now Israel reacts and gets blasted in MSM! Note the demonstrations here in the U. S. They are here in droves...not to even mention the Iraquis brought into this country, both Sunnis and Shias.
11 posted on 12/29/2008 11:49:36 AM PST by Larousse2 (Like June Carter Cash, "I'm just tryin' to matter.")
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To: Travis T. OJustice
This is satire-

However “Patton: Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. “

That's politically Incorrect nowadays. Modern politics is riddled with examples of appeasement, accommodation, and downplay. It has become politically incorrect to even consider the reality of war and today you have near half the US population denying there is even a threat. The notion that a military is there to kill people and break things, is so far removed from the paradigm of modern metro-sexual cosmopolitan citizens of the world, that even after 2,800 Americans are killed in a planned and well orchestrated attack some talk of restraint, considering the other side, and even ask if we are ourselves to blame. We live in times where what should be obvious and where issues so clear have been muddied up with psychobabble, psuedo-intelectualism, liberal hedonism that coincides with the feel good politics of today. Long term all this will bring about our demise.

I Like Patton and most of what he said rings true today as it did then. However, he like Teddy Roosevelt, Norman Rockwell, and even what we are now call the “Framers” (The revisionist interpretation of our Founding Fathers) are long dead and their IDEA’s have died with them. America and our real dream, Western free society and it's macro cultural values are simply running on the inertia of their past.

12 posted on 12/29/2008 11:55:15 AM PST by Red6
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To: Slings and Arrows

dittos to that! death to every damn one of ‘em as soon as possible.


14 posted on 12/29/2008 11:57:05 AM PST by bobby.223
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Never forget.


The Palestinians celebrated 9/11


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3u3rMIs5hw&eurl


Palestinians dance in the streets to celebrate the 9/11 killings of thousands of innocent American civilians - 3000 men, women and children age from 2 to 85.


   
Photos of Palestinians celebrating 9/11.
Unknown picture credits.




15 posted on 12/29/2008 12:01:36 PM PST by XR7
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The UN is a stinking corpse that will soon be wiped from the Earth.


16 posted on 12/29/2008 12:02:50 PM PST by pabianice
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"Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook "We desire death as you desire life."

If true, then this is not evidence, but rather proof that Satan is at the bottom of Islam. But I think these cowards really do fear death, which is precisely why they use human sheilds to protect themselves from it. They are hoping that the innocent human lives they hide behind will give them shelter. Islam to me is like a nightmare, or an eerie horror story. It is dark, fearsome, bloody and fiendish. It has a love affair with death and bloodletting. It's followers seem to grope around in hopelessness and rage like souls in Hell. Always in a rage about something, always looking to murder some contrived enemy to comfort their disturbed, Mohammedan souls. These poor bastards are pitiable, but at once detestable. They are such miserable creatures that they would surely be served well if the West rose up and destroyed their culture and their religion, and set them free from "allah" and his pedophile 'prophet'. Where are the Crusaders when you need them?

17 posted on 12/29/2008 12:04:08 PM PST by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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...from your lips to Gods’ ear!

saltnlemons


18 posted on 12/29/2008 12:08:47 PM PST by tajgirvan (saltnlemons is my better half!)
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To: Tigercap
death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued.

I could not agree more, you lice-infested sheep kisser. Can I help?

19 posted on 12/29/2008 12:11:23 PM PST by TonyStark
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To: Larousse2; All; Ping
Interesting: "Egypt Refuses Gaza Residents to be Treated" Click Here For The Article
20 posted on 12/29/2008 12:13:58 PM PST by Larousse2 (Like June Carter Cash, "I'm just tryin' to matter.")
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