Being a proud Atheist, and a freedom loving INFIDEL AKA "KUFFAR", WE are threatened by the primitive pidgeon chested jihad boys in the medieval east.
FRACK YOU!! SAY US ALL!! Don't annoy the Pagans and Bikers,, it's a islam FREE ZONE!!! LAN ASTASLEM!!!!
Will Saletan writes about politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate. He’s the author of Bearing Right.
The charges are false. By the standards of war, Israel’s efforts to spare civilians have been exemplary.
Israel didn’t choose this fight. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the
terrorist organizations that dominate Gaza, claim that Israel provoked
the conflict by arresting Hamas members in the
West Bank. But arrests in one territory don’t justify aerial
bombardment from another. Israel didn’t hit Gaza until terrorists had
fired more than 150 rockets into Israel and had rejected a cease-fire.
Some of the pictures that purport to show devastation from the Israeli strikes are fakes
borrowed from other wars. As of Wednesday afternoon, the death count
ranged from 30 to 50 or more, depending on where you mark the onset of
the conflict. Every death is tragic, and the longer the assault goes on,
the higher the toll will go.
Still, given that Israel has launched more than 500 airstrikes, you’d
have to conclude that either Israel is failing miserably to kill people
or, more plausibly, it’s largely trying not to kill them.
Israel’s defense minister admits his forces have targeted “terrorists’ houses”
as well as “arms, terror infrastructures, command systems, Hamas
institutions, [and] regime buildings.” The houses belong to Hamas
military leaders. An Israeli official boasts that “there's not a single Hamas brigade commander that has a home to go back to.” Israel’s legal rationale for targeting these homes is that they were “terror command centers” involved in rocket fire or other “terror activity.” But while Israel has tried to kill commanders in their cars (and has succeeded), it has avoided unannounced strikes on their homes.
The last time Israel targeted buildings in Gaza, a year and a half
ago, it used leaflets and phone calls to warn residents to get out
beforehand. It also fired flares or low-impact mortars (known as a
“knock on the roof”) to signal impending strikes. Human rights groups
didn’t accept these measures as protection from legal responsibility, but they did hail them as progress. Israel claims to be applying the same measures today. Hamas and other Palestinian sources confirm that the Israeli military has issued phone warnings to families in the targeted homes.
Human shields are a difficult problem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas is responsible
for civilian deaths in Gaza, because it deliberately sets up rocket
launchers and military infrastructure in civilian areas. That excuse is
too broad. The low death rate in this week’s airstrikes—and the
explanations from Israeli officials as to how the casualty rate has been
minimized—show that it’s possible to degrade Hamas’ military assets
without killing hundreds of people.
The Khan Yunis scenario is different. There, the human shield was voluntary. According to Ha’aretz,
an Israeli officer insisted on Wednesday morning that if other
civilians followed this example—responding to prestrike warnings by
going onto the roofs to form human shields—Israel wouldn’t be deterred.
Maybe the officer was bluffing. But what if this scenario happens
again? And what if the would-be martyrs appear on the roof while Israel
still has time to avert the strike, which wasn’t the case in Khan Yunis?
Would their deaths be homicide? Would they be suicide?
That’s a tough call. But anyone concerned about the deliberate
targeting of civilians in this conflict should first look at Hamas. The
rocket fire from Gaza into Israel began well before the Israeli assault
on Gaza. Initially, the rockets were Islamic Jihad’s idea. But in the
last few days, Hamas has joined in with gusto, claiming credit for
missiles fired at several Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law
We need to get off Saudi Barbarian OIL!!!!!Support the Canadian OIL Sands,,, and visit,, Ethicaloil.org
The gravity of the existential threat we face from Islamic Jihad is truly of epic proportions. It is essentially a battle pitting free-civilized man against a totalitarian barbarian. What is at stake is the struggle for our very soul - namely who we are and what we represent. The lives that were sacrificed for individual rights and freedoms that we've come to cherish are being chiseled away from right under our noses by the stealth jihadists. And many of us are in denial and totally clueless.
The left's appeasement and pandering to evil is nothing new. What makes their utopian delusions so infuriating and unpardonable is that it is not only they who will have to pay the consequences, and deservedly, so, they are thwarting and undermining our best efforts at resistance and are thus dragging us down in the process as well.
No comments:
Post a Comment