When the Human Shield Slips

Here's one more Islamic rationalization for the big bad Hamas terrorists hiding behind women and children. It's OK you see because these "involuntary martyrs" are "guaranteed" to go to heaven. Cynical use of innocents seems to be ingrained into the Islamic way of life.

FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:

When the Human Shield Slips

by Austin Bay

January 14, 2009
The phrase "involuntary martyrdom" is a hideous clue to contemporary terrorists' perverse notions of battlefield victory and their means for pursuing political power in the 21st century.

Reduced to ugly essentials, "involuntary martyrdom" as practiced by Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas organization amounts to taking their own civilian populations hostage. With this "human shield" positioned, they attack Israeli homes, schools and hospitals with rockets fired from launch sites located near Lebanese and Palestinian homes, schools and hospitals.

Hezbollah and Hamas also build "meshed, networked static defense systems" comprised of bunkers and tunnels in their human shields' neighborhoods and selectively booby-trap houses with high explosives. They then dare Israel to counter-attack and, in the process, kill thousands of Arabs while losing several score Israeli soldiers in close combat with guerrillas.
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