Human Sandbags, Huh?
Via Wisse Words – Lenin’s Tomb reports on the unremittingly zionist London Evening Standard’s deliberate yet unsurprising parroting of the Israeli government key talking point, ie that Hezbollah is using civilians as human shields and therefore they are inhuman animals who must be wiped off the face of the earth.
But then Lenin found this from B’Tselem, the Israeli center for human rights information in the occupied territories:
20 July 2006:
Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields in Beit Hanun
B’Tselem’s initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield.
After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents, two of them minors, on the staircases of the two buildings, at the entrance to rooms in which the soldiers positioned themselves, for some twelve hours. During this time, there were intense exchanges of gunfire between the soldiers and armed Palestinians. The soldiers also demanded that one of the occupants walk in front of them during a search of all the apartments in one of the buildings, after which they released her.
International humanitarian law forbids using civilians as human shields by placing them next to soldiers or next to military facilities, with the intention of gaining immunity from attack, or by forcing the civilians to carry out dangerous military assignments.
B’Tselem has demanded that the Judge Advocate General immediately order a Military Police investigation into the matter and prosecute the soldiers responsible for the action.
Looks like the Republicans and the Israeli government not only share a Middle-East policy, they also share their propaganda methods. I’m sensing some projection here.
