A few weeks ago I turned on my computer and saw the most outrageous video of the year. The brave teenage and twenty-something Palestinian revolutionaries in Gaza resisting the occupation by the border fence throwing rocks at the IDF then retreating behind what looks to be a boy of 4-5 years old.
Brave Palestinian revolutionaries using little children as Human Shields.
In another scene a small boy is seen kicking and flailing his arms trying to escape someone wearing a Red Crescent vest who seems to be trying to put him in the line of fire.
Hamass latest Theater of the Absurd production: Cannibals in Gaza" was in full swing.
Sure the loony Left will say they are training them to participate in the Palestinian Revolution." But by what standards of humanity are they behaving? Certainly not what we thought we had evolved to by the 21st Century.
But Hamas continued this production for weeks using the Arabs in Gaza as cannon fodder. Since then there has been the spurious Palestinian claim that an eight month old baby named Lila Randur who was brought to the scene of the riots died from inhaling tear gas. Also Hamas refused to allow into Gaza Israeli trucks with medical supplies. For what purpose? To boost the body count?
About the baby IDF Spokesperson Major-General Avihai Adrei responded that testimonies collected by the IDF undermine the credibility of the Gazan Ministry of Healths announcement regarding the death of the baby."
A Gazan doctor told the Associated Press that the baby was known to have had a preexisting medical condition and that he did not believe her death was caused by tear gas.
But think about this. Even if its true that the baby died from tear gas what kind of parents would bring an eight month old baby deliberately to the front lines of a war zone? And using a dead baby as a prop or is that propaganda weapon against Israel?
Where are all the childs rights activists of the world? Why arent they crying out at the abusive behavior of the Palestinians toward their children?
Soon after the bloodiest clashes which saw 62 Palestinians killed the IDF Spokespersons Unit announced that after a joint investigation conducted by the IDF and the General Security Service at least 24 of those killed in the Gaza border riots were terrorists affiliated mostly with Hamas and a few from Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Proving the Israeli claim true later Hamas Politburo member Salah Bardaweil boasted in an interview with the Palestinian Baladna news outlet In the last rounds of confrontations if 62 people were martyred 50 of them were Hamas."
IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said in response This proves what so many have tried to ignore Hamas is behind these riots and the branding of the riots as peaceful protests couldnt be further from the truth."
Then Iranian backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis. So 53 of the 62 killed by IDF sharpshooters and others were in fact fighters intending violence not peaceful protesters. The production must go on it doesnt matter that over 2500 actors were injured.
One rioter who was captured by IDF soldiers after breaching the border fence and infiltrating into Israel told the IDF that Hamas stage-managed the border riots to stay in power.
Hamas organized the demonstrations so that people would not turn on them" he claimed explaining that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has gotten so bad that Hamas planned out the March of Return protests to let people blow off steam and did it in a way that would get them publicity. A few dead Palestinians who cares.
Hamas controls everything in the strip. Hamas sends us messages to our Facebook accounts and to our cellphones. They come to mosques handing leaflet saying to go to the fence. When theres electricity and televisions can be turned on all you can see is the march. People got worn down and bored and Im one of those people" he said.
The detainee backed Israels claim that Hamas uses women and children as human shields in the riots. They tell women to go forward. They say to the woman: Go ahead you are a woman and the Israeli army does not shoot at women. They tell small children: Go ahead the army does not shoot at small children. They tell a child to go ahead and he goes its a little boy. They deceive him" he complained.
While the IDF has indeed explicitly instructed not to fire at women or children it has dropped leaflets and in other ways urged Palestinians to refrain from coming near the fence saying they are putting themselves in danger by doing so.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that sometimes harming civilians is inevitable. Theyre Hamas pushing civilians women children into the line of fire with the hope of creating casualties" Netanyahu explained. We try to minimize casualties. Theyre trying to incur casualties in order to put pressure on Israel which is horrible."
DM Avigdor Liberman taking part in a Gaza Division situation briefing together with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and Southern Command Chief Eyal Zamir said that The Hamas leadership are a bunch of cannibals who treat their children as weapons. They have rockets personal weapons and another type of weapon children and other people."
Their goal is to lift Gazas blockade not to build an economy or hold talks about coexistence but rather to smuggle weapons into Gaza and create a Hezbollah-type model" he stressed.
Yet international media coverage has overwhelmingly portrayed the Palestinian narrative blaming Israel instead of reporting the truth that Hamas produced this horror show Cannibals in Gaza."
The usual obligatory responses followed this Theater of the Absurd politicians condemning Israel for overreacting summoning the Israeli Ambassador urging restraint and then Turkey and South Africa withdrawing their ambassadors in protest. Turkey and South Africa such bastions of peace and moderation.
One exception has been the American administration Nikki Haley has been wonderfully truthful in the UN pointing out that no other country in the Security Council would have acted as restrained as Israel.
But unfortunately people like US Senators Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders have run to accuse Israel of using excessive force. Sanders has also accused the IDF of killing innocent people. He should check his facts before he runs to condemn Israel.
Bye-the-way unless youre an animal rights activist vegetarian or PETA supporter someone who cries out for the suffering of every little one of G-ds creatures dont be a hypocrite dont cry for them when we have to kill them theyre terrorists and not quite human theyre cannibals!
Ariel Natan Pasko an independent analyst and consultant has a Masters Degree specializing in International Relations Political Economy & Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank websites and in newspapers. His latest articles can also be read on his archive: The Think Tank by Ariel Natan Pasko.
(c) 2018/5778 Pasko
A few weeks ago I turned on my computer and saw the most outrageous video of the year. The brave teenage and twenty-something Palestinian revolutionaries in Gaza resisting the occupation by the border fence throwing rocks at the IDF then retreating behind what looks to be a boy of 4-5 years old.
Brave Palestinian revolutionaries using little children as Human Shields.
In another scene a small boy is seen kicking and flailing his arms trying to escape someone wearing a Red Crescent vest who seems to be trying to put him in the line of fire.
Hamass latest Theater of the Absurd production: Cannibals in Gaza" was in full swing.
Sure the loony Left will say they are training them to participate in the Palestinian Revolution." But by what standards of humanity are they behaving? Certainly not what we thought we had evolved to by the 21st Century.
But Hamas continued this production for weeks using the Arabs in Gaza as cannon fodder. Since then there has been the spurious Palestinian claim that an eight month old baby named Lila Randur who was brought to the scene of the riots died from inhaling tear gas. Also Hamas refused to allow into Gaza Israeli trucks with medical supplies. For what purpose? To boost the body count?
About the baby IDF Spokesperson Major-General Avihai Adrei responded that testimonies collected by the IDF undermine the credibility of the Gazan Ministry of Healths announcement regarding the death of the baby."
A Gazan doctor told the Associated Press that the baby was known to have had a preexisting medical condition and that he did not believe her death was caused by tear gas.
But think about this. Even if its true that the baby died from tear gas what kind of parents would bring an eight month old baby deliberately to the front lines of a war zone? And using a dead baby as a prop or is that propaganda weapon against Israel?
Where are all the childs rights activists of the world? Why arent they crying out at the abusive behavior of the Palestinians toward their children?
Soon after the bloodiest clashes which saw 62 Palestinians killed the IDF Spokespersons Unit announced that after a joint investigation conducted by the IDF and the General Security Service at least 24 of those killed in the Gaza border riots were terrorists affiliated mostly with Hamas and a few from Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Proving the Israeli claim true later Hamas Politburo member Salah Bardaweil boasted in an interview with the Palestinian Baladna news outlet In the last rounds of confrontations if 62 people were martyred 50 of them were Hamas."
IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said in response This proves what so many have tried to ignore Hamas is behind these riots and the branding of the riots as peaceful protests couldnt be further from the truth."
Then Iranian backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis. So 53 of the 62 killed by IDF sharpshooters and others were in fact fighters intending violence not peaceful protesters. The production must go on it doesnt matter that over 2500 actors were injured.
One rioter who was captured by IDF soldiers after breaching the border fence and infiltrating into Israel told the IDF that Hamas stage-managed the border riots to stay in power.
Hamas organized the demonstrations so that people would not turn on them" he claimed explaining that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has gotten so bad that Hamas planned out the March of Return protests to let people blow off steam and did it in a way that would get them publicity. A few dead Palestinians who cares.
Hamas controls everything in the strip. Hamas sends us messages to our Facebook accounts and to our cellphones. They come to mosques handing leaflet saying to go to the fence. When theres electricity and televisions can be turned on all you can see is the march. People got worn down and bored and Im one of those people" he said.
The detainee backed Israels claim that Hamas uses women and children as human shields in the riots. They tell women to go forward. They say to the woman: Go ahead you are a woman and the Israeli army does not shoot at women. They tell small children: Go ahead the army does not shoot at small children. They tell a child to go ahead and he goes its a little boy. They deceive him" he complained.
While the IDF has indeed explicitly instructed not to fire at women or children it has dropped leaflets and in other ways urged Palestinians to refrain from coming near the fence saying they are putting themselves in danger by doing so.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that sometimes harming civilians is inevitable. Theyre Hamas pushing civilians women children into the line of fire with the hope of creating casualties" Netanyahu explained. We try to minimize casualties. Theyre trying to incur casualties in order to put pressure on Israel which is horrible."
DM Avigdor Liberman taking part in a Gaza Division situation briefing together with Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and Southern Command Chief Eyal Zamir said that The Hamas leadership are a bunch of cannibals who treat their children as weapons. They have rockets personal weapons and another type of weapon children and other people."
Their goal is to lift Gazas blockade not to build an economy or hold talks about coexistence but rather to smuggle weapons into Gaza and create a Hezbollah-type model" he stressed.
Yet international media coverage has overwhelmingly portrayed the Palestinian narrative blaming Israel instead of reporting the truth that Hamas produced this horror show Cannibals in Gaza."
The usual obligatory responses followed this Theater of the Absurd politicians condemning Israel for overreacting summoning the Israeli Ambassador urging restraint and then Turkey and South Africa withdrawing their ambassadors in protest. Turkey and South Africa such bastions of peace and moderation.
One exception has been the American administration Nikki Haley has been wonderfully truthful in the UN pointing out that no other country in the Security Council would have acted as restrained as Israel.
But unfortunately people like US Senators Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders have run to accuse Israel of using excessive force. Sanders has also accused the IDF of killing innocent people. He should check his facts before he runs to condemn Israel.
Bye-the-way unless youre an animal rights activist vegetarian or PETA supporter someone who cries out for the suffering of every little one of G-ds creatures dont be a hypocrite dont cry for them when we have to kill them theyre terrorists and not quite human theyre cannibals!
Ariel Natan Pasko an independent analyst and consultant has a Masters Degree specializing in International Relations Political Economy & Policy Analysis. His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank websites and in newspapers. His latest articles can also be read on his archive: The Think Tank by Ariel Natan Pasko.
(c) 2018/5778 Pasko