Clarifying the difference between Israel and Gaza

If you don’t read Charles Krauthammer’s articles by now, then what’s been keeping you? His latest piece is entitled “Moral Clarity in Gaza” and brings to light just what the differences between Hamas and Israel are. See this post for just how civilised Hamas is. It begins:

Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating.

Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger. Hamas, which started this conflict with unrelenting rocket and mortar attacks on unarmed Israelis -- 6,464 launched from Gaza in the past three years -- deliberately places its weapons in and near the homes of its own people.

This has two purposes. First, counting on the moral scrupulousness of Israel, Hamas figures civilian proximity might help protect at least part of its arsenal. Second, knowing that Israelis have new precision weapons that may allow them to attack nonetheless, Hamas hopes that inevitable collateral damage -- or, if it is really fortunate, an errant Israeli bomb -- will kill large numbers of its own people for which, of course, the world will blame Israel.

See the rest.

Posted under: Politics, Islamic Totalitarianism
Posted on: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:24 AM
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  1. Posted by: schw on 1/18/2009 3:17 PM
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    I feel sorry for you... There is a reporter from country there in flesh that puts all of this bullshit to a rest.

    First of all the Israeli so called warnings to bomb a selected building is just a media hoax. There was a case when three daugthers of a just murdered man were told by an Israeli army that they can stay in their home and that they would be safe. And later that day they were killed by an Israeli missille right at their home.
    The israeli so called precision weapons are so precised that whenever they kill a supposed hamas leader(I say supposed because you can found evidence all over youtube that there are a lot of times that they kill totally wrong person)they manage to kill also his whole family (like in one case when they killed one hamas leader and with him his 5 wives and 12 children). Is his family guilty of anything..?!?. Have Israeli people learnt nothing from the WWII?!? They were guilty as a group and killed for no particular reason...which is against every modern law or civil rights. Every man should be held responsible for his action. And the Israelis killed over 300 hundred children and many more civilians...and for what...to get to a few hamas leaders...that is some bs. In this whole confilct there were less than 20 death on the Israelis side...and half of them were soldiers... So if u think there is a moral clarity in this whole Gaza situation your ethics are totally twisted.

    And even if this author is right with all these before bombing warnings[which I am 100% certain he is not] in Gaza there are over 1244 people living on a square kilometer...So where to hide...? The situation for them is so desperate that they go in the middle of the streets because they feel there is the safest place since Israelis missilles are often targeted on the wrong houses.

    Here listen and watch to this videos and then please make a comment....:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYSM2v28EEk [and if u believe Tzipi Livni over the facts of Human Rights Watch and Red Ross and oders...no comment]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UxJWdCwOpc
  2. Posted by: ArgusEyes on 1/19/2009 2:03 PM
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    I refer you to a LGF article that is a further example:

    http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32480_Video-_Hamas_Uses_Children_As_Spotters


    More pro-Hamas videos are appearing on YouTube; this one was posted by VoiceOfJihaD and it shows very clearly how Hamas uses children as human shields. At about 1:20, the terrorists appear to be shooting at a helicopter overhead—and they send children into the streets, in the open, to point out where the helicopter is, while they stay hidden under trees and next to walls.

    They do this because they know the IAF tries not to launch airstrikes against children. But they also know that if any of them are killed, their useful little spotters can easily be turned into propaganda tools with the willing assistance of Western media.

    They don’t waste any part of the child.

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