Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel's Just War Against Hamas by Alan Dershowitz

Author:Alan Dershowitz [Dershowitz, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780795344312
Amazon: 0795344317
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2014-11-17T23:00:00+00:00

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Accusing Hamas of Using Human Shields Is Not Racist

July 23, 2014

While Israel uses shelters and the Iron Dome to protect its civilians, Hamas uses its civilians to protect its rockets and its terrorists. Recently, supporters of Hamas have argued that to say that Hamas uses civilians as human shields is a manifestation of racism and an attempt to dehumanize Palestinians.

But it is Hamas’s own leaders who have long boasted of this tragic reality. Listen to Fathi Hammad, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council:

“For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry… This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahedeen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine.”

And listen to recent commentary by Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-American, on Al-Jazeera:

Is it moral to launch missiles from hospitals, from schools, from bedrooms, from mosques, and from the roof of a church, where thousands of Gazans had found refuge? The church’s priest was interviewed on CBN and said: “From the roof of this church, Hamas members are launching missiles at Israel. We welcomed them in our church, but they began launching missiles at Israel from the roof.” Is this the moral high ground that my colleague is talking about?

Is it moral for Hamas leaders to hide in Al-Shifa Hospital, thus risking the lives of regular people? Is this the moral high ground? They are fleeing like rats, hiding behind patients in Gaza hospitals. Is it moral for Hamas leaders to hide behind these patients?

They garner sympathy over the corpses of children. This is part of the strategy of the Islamists. They consider sympathy garnered over the corpses of children to be a victory…

The whole world knows that Hamas does not care about the spirit of humanity. They do not care about the children, about their people, about the losses, about the destruction of their country, or about the number of casualties.

We are talking about a group like ISIS. What kind of honor is it if it is at the expense of children’s corpses? You don’t know the meaning of life. All you know is the meaning of death. You constitute an enterprise of destruction in the region. You are wreaking destruction in Palestine. You don’t know the meaning of life.

Go and die, brother, but don’t make others die instead. If you want to die—go and die. Let Khaled Mash’al die. Let Haniya and Al-Zahhar die. Just don’t let the children die.37

Ban-Ki Moon—who is not known for a pro-Israel bias—recently confirmed what every objective observer knows to be true: that Hamas uses hospitals and schools as shields from which to launch rocket attacks against Israeli civilians—a double war crime. Here are his words:

“We condemn the use of civilian sites—schools, hospitals, and other civilian facilities—for military purposes.”

He was referring, of course, to Hamas, since Israel does not use such civilian facilities to fire rockets. That is why more Palestinians than Israelis have died in recent weeks.

During a two-day period while dozens of Palestinians and

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