Another tool in real objective: vilification of Israel It's about "israel is bad" mantra, stupid. 2 vile distorters propagandists have a "book" on 'Human Shields: Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini Don't get fooled by it's title.
Another tool in real objective: vilification of Israel it's about "israel is bad" mantra, stupid.
2 vile distorters propagandists have a "book" on 'Human Shields: Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini
Don't get fooled by it's title.
NEVE GORDON:
* Already in Middle East Quarterly, 2001 defined as an extremist.
* Amidst wave of terror attacks by Arafat's intifada against Israeli non combatants, as he was pictured embracing Arafat, in a response to a question, stated shamelessly in his profound "sincerity," he "doesn't know" if he is guilty of the terror attacks. (February 3, 2002, heb.).
* here is his 2007 anti-Jewish instigation via error and stifling and intimidating a student who dared to point out on his misrepresenting facts to suit his anti-Jewish incitement (not anti Israel, but anti Jewish):
'In a lecture on November 5th, 2007 Gordon continuously used the term "Jewish roads" to refer to Israeli roads in the West Bank and formerly in the Gaza Strip from which Arabs are excluded. An Israeli student in the large class raised his hand and told Gordon that he was offended by his phraseology and said Gordon was bordering on anti-Semitism by deeming these roads "Jewish roads." The student described for the class the complete freedom of movement of Israeli Arabs (Arabs with Israeli citizenship) on Israeli roads inside Israel and inside the West Bank. Therefore by calling the roads "Jewish" and not Israeli Gordon was being anti-Semitic. Gordon again simply disregarded the challenge to his biased teaching and appeared irritated. The same Israeli student that challenged Gordon received a terse email after class that same day from Gordon requesting that the student come see him at his office at an appointment two days later. The student arrived at Gordon's office and was surprised to see his Graduate Student Instructor (who directly grades the student) present as well. The student cordially greeted Gordon in Hebrew but did not receive the same warm greeting in return. Gordon then proceeded to berate the student for publicly embarrassing and offending him during class. He belittled the student by telling him that he (Gordon) had been teaching for longer than the student20had been alive and that he had never been embarrassed and offended like that before. Behind closed doors, intimidated by his professor yelling at him, and in the presence of the person who decides his grade, the student quickly apologized and hoped the matter was put to rest. Much to the student's dismay, in the next lecture Gordon attempted to clear his name and denounced the student's challenging questions as unfair and unfounded, while publicly humiliating the student. Gordon's Graduate Student Instructors further dissected the Israeli student's challenge in the class discussion sections, and referred to the student by name without his consent. Along with the history of scare-tactics used by Prof. Gordon in order to keep his classroom opposition quiet and disallowing any challenging of his anti-Israel positions...'
from: israelbehindthenews.com/2009/08/25/studying-with-prof-neve-gordon-at-the-university-of-michigan
And of course there is that scandal how Neve Gordon's pieces appeared on Zundel and on other Neo-Nazi sites...
NICOLA PERUGINI:
The same Nicola Peruguni who after years of ranting against Israel (on al Jazeera among others), tweeted about D. Pipes' May-7-2020 NYTimes article against Israel's possible annexation, highlighting a line, branding the words as "racist," by erroneously misrepresenting his words about "enemy" and its meaning in sentence; the same who tweeted (Feb-13-2020) that a settlement is a "crime against humanity" and (May-15-2020) no peace until ALL are returned to Palestine and (July-1-2020) retweeted a case about Israeli court evicting one particular illegal house occupied by an Arab as "ethnic cleansing." ever mind Israel does it to Jewish residents, en-masse. If illegal.
Asides from adopting of racialising Israel when not even related...
The pair is so extreme, that even biased anti-Israel Amnesty International isn't "good enough", and in April 2015 wrote against Amnesty for daring to criticize Hamas' use of human shields.
Not only is it obvious that were these two anti m-Israel ardent activists really care about human shields they would write against Arab-Palestinian ruling government in Gaza for its use of its own people in order to carry out attacks against civilians (Sderot kindergartens among others), but it's the audacity of using human shields theme in its overall anti Israel vilification campaign in their (years of) anti-Israel first, human shields writing second, but as a tool.
Thus, towards this objective, any work was intended. The cover as a blanket "human shields" title is deceptive. Full stop.
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Following was compiled by E.P. , Thanks
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The Arab Islamic "Palestinian" pioneering in using own civilians [unarmed from its own population] as human shields, dates back at least to early 1980's (Arafat).
United States Policy Toward Lebanon-relief and Rehabilitation ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1983
THE PLO THREAT
Israel has found in Lebanon enough PLO weapons to equip a massive army and to supply untold numbers of terrorist cadres...
Arafat boasts of PLO terrorists serving in El Salvador, Angola and ...
In two ways however, the PLO was different from conventional armies. First, the PLO consciously attacked only civilians and, secondly, the PLO used civilians as human shields to protect itself. Anyone who has been to the small country of Israel knows that there are many military targets to be easily found. ..
Yet, the PLO could only find those “military" targets disguised as kibbutz nurseries, school buses, marketplaces or passenger airplanes.
And the second factor that differentiates the PLO terrorist army from conventional armies is its hiding in the midst of civilian centers.
Israeli troops uncovered PLO arsenals, emplacements and bases in schools, mosques, and apartment basements. According to Newsweek, June 14, Israeli soldiers in one engagement, were attacked by PLO fighters disguised as hospital patients.
Current World Leaders - Page 676 - 1982
PLO Subversion of Lebanon
The terrorists sought and found new bases in Lebanon. ...
The Deliberate Use of Civilians as Shields Since the beginning of its operations against Israel, the PLO has cynically used heavily populated areas — such as refugee camps or inhabited areas in Beirut and other towns in Lebanom — as bases of operation.
Aware of Israeli reluctance to harm civilians, it has thus often used the latter as human shields.
And indeed, Israel acted with restraint. It elected not to attack targets in the midst of the refugee camps or the towns, but on their peripheries, in order to innocent human lives and ... However, Israel has no choice but to act in self-defense as long as acts of terrorism continue against its people ...
The Media's War Against Israel: The Full Exposé No One Dared Publish - Stephen Karetzky, Peter E. Goldman - Steimatzky/Shapolsky, 1986 - Arab-Israeli conflict - 423 pages - p.266
By training their cameras on the stark rubble and bloody civilian casualties, the television reporters transformed the reality of Israel's most ... and the agony and casualties such attacks cause, and by rarely explaining how the PLO used civilians as shields, the knights of the Electronic Cyclops failed to give viewers a balanced picture of the fighting...
responsibility for the carnage, or about the PLO's right to use the Lebanese capital's civilianpopulation as hostages to his political maneuverings.
World Refugee Survey - Page 112 - 1994
... these organizations had "encamped themselves within civilian population centers in southern Lebanon, using the civilians as human shields and enabling them to launch Katyusha rockets and other weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians with impunity. Faced with this deliberate provocation and escalation, Israel was forced to respond."
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More 'modern' use:
Palestinian Arab Terrorists Persuade Women To Act As Human Shields
By YAKUB RALWAH, Associated Press
November 3, 2006
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hundreds of Palestinian Arab women in robes and head scarves streamed into a Gaza combat zone on Friday to help free terrorists besieged by Israeli troops at a mosque. Two women who came under fire were killed and at least 10 wounded, but some terrorists managed to escape.
Why Palestinian Children Die
December 3, 2007
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress
United States. Congress
U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008
March 5 2008
Palestine - Page 311 - Jonathan Bloomfield - 2010
Hamas and Hezbollah go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields. These groups are supported by the government ...
Israeli NGO: Hamas 'Used Civilians as Human Shields' in Gaza
Goldstone report showed 'systematic pro-Palestinian bias', says Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
Haaretz Service Jonny Singer
15.03.2010 | 15:10
Hamas used Palestinian civilians as human shields during last year's Gaza war, according to a study published Monday by the Israeli non-governmental orgainzation the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States - Page 311
... launch Sites amongst the Palestinian civilian population, utilizing them as human shields; Whereas intentionally targeting civilian populations and the use of human shields violates international humanitarian and human rights law: Whereas intentionally targeting civilians population and use of human shields
United States. Congress. House - 2010
Gaza Activist Stabbed After Exposing Hamas Use of Human Shields
U.N. Must Condemn Latest Hamas Brutality
Jan.17.2012
GENEVA, Jan. 17 - The stabbing in Gaza of a Palestinian rights activist after he exposed Hamas' contempt for its own people by using them as human shields, and after he criticized the radical Islamic group for torture, abuse and trampling free speech, should be strongly condemned by the United Nations—both as an attack on the victim’s human rights, and on the idea of freedom of expression.
Masked attackers on Friday stabbed Mahmud Abu Rahma multiple times in the back, leg and shoulders, it was revealed today.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa - 2014
Denouncing the Use of Civilians as Human Shields by Hamas and Other Terrorist Organizations in Violation of International Humanitarian Law; and Condemning the Murder of Israeli and Palestinian Children in Israel and the Ongoing and Escalating Violence in that Country: Markup Before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session on H. Con. Res. 107 and H. Res. 665, July 25, 2014
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014 - Crimes against humanity (International law) - 24 pages
Hamas' Human Shield Tactic as Reported by Foreign Journalists
July 22, 2014
YouTube › watch
Hamas uses human shields 'for a reason' - YouTube
CNN July 21, 2014
United Nations › auto-insert-182027
Hamas fires deadly rockets targeting Israeli civilians,using Palestinians as human shields – Letter from Israel
Aug 27, 2014
Over the past 50 days, more than 4,000 rockets have been shot at Israel from the Gaza Strip. Thousands of these rockets were launched from densely populated areas. Hamas is committing a double war crime — first by using Palestinian civilians as human shields and second by intentionally targeting innocent Israeli civilians.
Deadly rockets were fired daily from launch pads located in hospitals, mosques and schools in Gaza only to explode in homes, synagogues and kindergartens in Israel. While Israel has been using missile defence to protect its civilians, Hamas has been using civilians to protect its missiles.
Hamas deliberately embeds its military operations in residential areas with the clear intention of using its own people, including women and children, as protection. One does not have to look any further than Hamas’ own combat manual on urban warfare to see how the terror organization has institutionalized its disregard for human life. Its combat strategy guidelines explicitly instruct terrorists to use civilians as human shields. This is not a new tactic — it has been the modus operandi of Hamas each and every time it has waged hostilities against Israel.
Evidence of this criminal strategy is mounting and the examples are too numerous to count. Hamas has routinely fired from schools, playgrounds and hotels, as described below:
On 8 July, a rocket was fired from within the El’ Azhar Islamic College
On 14 July, an M-75 rocket was launched from a children’s playground located in the neighbourhood of Shuj a’iya
On 1 August, a rocket was fired from within the Al-Shati refugee camp, near the Al Mashtal hotel, where many journalists were staying
And, as if exploiting civilian infrastructure was not horrific enough, Hamas repeatedly called on the civilian population of Gaza to disregard Israeli warnings and threatened them not to evacuate the areas from which Hamas launched its attacks. Such statements were made on 10 July by the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior and on 15 July by the Head of the Hamas refugee department. Hamas also used its official media channels to actively encourage Palestinian civilians to act as human shields, turning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warnings of impending strikes into opportunities for sacrificing their own civilians.
Lawfare - JWC - NATO
Nov 11, 2016 · terrorist attacks, use of human shields, taking credit for ... help achieve strategic objectives... in Gaza before conducting military strikes against Hamas in Operation Protective Edge
In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields.
Apr 19, 2018
H.R.3542 - Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act115th Congress (2017-2018)
Israel minimizes casualties, but Hamas uses human shields
May 18, 2018 · The U.N. Human Rights Council convened a special meeting in Geneva Friday to
The inhumanity of Hamas' human shields
Illustration on Hamas' use of human shields by Alexander Hunter/The Washington ... By Joe Wilson - - Thursday, May 31, 2018.
Part 1: After the Falling Rockets from Lebanon Interrelated ...
Feb 21, 2019 · ... Lebanon Hezbollah missiles. (January 2007) This four-part series by Professor Louis Rene Beres (Ph.D., Princeton 1971) is adapted from ...
Perfidy represents an especially serious violation of the law of war, one even identified as a “grave breach” in Article 147 of Geneva Convention No. IV.
The critical legal effect of perfidy committed by Palestinian or Hizbullah terrorists – especially their widespread resort to “human shields” – is to immunize Israel from any responsibility for inadvertent counter-terrorist harms done to Arab civilians. Even if Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Fatah and Hizbullah did not deliberately engage in perfidy, any terrorist-created link between civilians and insurgent warfare would always give Israel full and unassailable legal justification for its defensive military actions. This is not to suggest that Israel would have carte blanche in its applications of armed force, but that the reasonableness of these applications would have to be appraised in the context of enemy perfidy.
To be sure, viewed against the background of extensive and unapologetic terrorist perfidy in both Gaza and Lebanon, Israel was certainly not guilty of “disproportionality”. Let critics of Israel recall that all combatants, including all insurgents in Gaza and Lebanon, are bound to comply with the law of war of international law. This requirement derives not only from what is known in jurisprudence as the “Martens Clause”, which makes its first appearance in the Preamble to the 1899 Hague Convention No. II on land warfare, but also from Article 3, common to the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949. It is found also in the two protocols to these Conventions.
It is easy for those who are altogether unfamiliar with international law to lash out unfairly at Israel with charges of “disproportionality”. Yet, legal scholars must always understand the vital significance of context. Authoritative judgments under international law are not made in isolation from other pertinent factors. In this connection, it is apparent that any seemingly disproportionate use of force by the Israel Defense Forces in the Lebanon War of 2006 was actually the outcome of antecedent perfidy by its criminal enemies in both Gaza and Lebanon (terrorism is a codified crime under international law). Were it not for these egregious violations of the law of war by terrorist adversaries, Israel would not have been obliged to wage war in a fashion that inevitably creates civilian casualties..
Part 2: After The Falling Rockets From Lebanon Interrelated ...
Part 2
Feb.23.2019
Hybrid Threats: Hamas’ use of human shields in Gaza.
Hamas' use of human shields in Gaza - NATO Strategic ...
Hamas' most common uses of human shields include: Firing rockets, artillery, and mortars from or in proximity to heavily populated civilians.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. HAMAS’ USE OF HUMAN SHIELDS IN GAZA
Summary/Abstract: Hamas, an Islamist militant group and the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, has been using human shields in conflicts with Israel since 2007. According to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the war crime of using human shields encompasses “utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas, or military forces immune from military operations.” Hamas has launched rockets, positioned military-related infrastructure-hubs and routes, and engaged the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from, or in proximity to, residential and commercial areas. The strategic logic of human shields has two components.
It is based on an awareness of Israel’s desire to minimise collateral damage, and of Western public opinion’s sensitivity towards civilian casualties.
If the IDF uses lethal force and causes an increase in civilian casualties, Hamas can utilise that as a lawfare tool: it can accuse Israel of committing war crimes, which could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. Alternatively, if the IDF limits its use of military force in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less susceptible to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight. Moreover, despite the Israeli public’s high level of support for the Israeli political and military leadership during operations, civilian casualties are one of the friction points between Israeli left-wing and right-wing supporters, with the former questioning the outcomes of the operation.
Publication Year: 2019
Language: English
Hamas Views Application of Sovereignty as a Potential Opportunity
By Yaakov Lappin July 9, 2020
...the possibility of a simultaneous escalation in both the West Bank and Gaza remains real. Hamas has assembled a well-armed terror army in Gaza, equipped with tens of thousands of rockets, anti-tank guided missile launchers, mortar launchers, and other weapons. A network of tunnels runs under the Gaza Strip for the movement of Hamas terrorists, and residential buildings double as military command centers and rocket launch sites. Hamas continues to prioritize its force buildup program over the wellbeing of the Gazan people.
Hamas copied its warfare doctrine, which is based on the principle of operating from within the civilian population and thereby exploiting that population as human shields, from Hezbollah, adapting it to Gazan conditions. The two organizations cooperate on a number of levels.
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