It is not fair! - IDF using latest body armor

[grggngll]

Everything that needs to be told about the conflict in one cartoon.

http://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

[bmore_ken]

There's gurgles. I wondered what had happened to you. Recover from the election yet?

[grggngll]

Just distracted with getting ready for the lost decade.

[Daan]

You really did mean the IDF, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield
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During the 2008-2009 Gaza War known as Operation Cast Lead, Israeli military forces were accused of continuing to use civilians as human shields by Amnesty International and former Israeli soldiers (see Breaking the Silence). According to testimonies, Israeli forces used unarmed Palestinians including children to protect military positions, walk in front of armed soldiers; go into buildings to check for booby traps or gunmen; and inspect suspicious objects for explosives.

The UN Human Rights Council also accused Israel of using human shields during 2008-2009 Gaza Conflict[36][37]

The Guardian has compiled three videos and testimony from civilians of alleged war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers during the Gaza war, including the use of Palestinian children as human shields, the targeting of medics and hospitals, and drone aircraft firing on civilians deliberately. Three teenage brothers from the al-Attar family have claimed that "they were taken from their home at gunpoint, made to kneel in front of tanks to deter Hamas fighters from firing at them and sent by Israeli soldiers into Palestinian houses to clear them".

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[ivanbalt]

You really did mean the IDF, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield
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During the 2008-2009 Gaza War known as Operation Cast Lead, Israeli military forces were accused of continuing to use civilians as human shields by Amnesty International and former Israeli soldiers (see Breaking the Silence). According to testimonies, Israeli forces used unarmed Palestinians including children to protect military positions, walk in front of armed soldiers; go into buildings to check for booby traps or gunmen; and inspect suspicious objects for explosives.

The UN Human Rights Council also accused Israel of using human shields during 2008-2009 Gaza Conflict[36][37]

The Guardian has compiled three videos and testimony from civilians of alleged war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers during the Gaza war, including the use of Palestinian children as human shields, the targeting of medics and hospitals, and drone aircraft firing on civilians deliberately. Three teenage brothers from the al-Attar family have claimed that "they were taken from their home at gunpoint, made to kneel in front of tanks to deter Hamas fighters from firing at them and sent by Israeli soldiers into Palestinian houses to clear them".

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Or Hamas. From your article:

The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, an Israeli NGO with close ties to the IDF,[20] accused Hamas and other armed groups of making extensive use of human shields as integral part of their war doctrine, in order to prevent the IDF to target them, during the Gaza War (2008-2009). According to the ITIC, tactics used by Hamas that qualify as using human shields include hiding military infrastructure in civilian buildings—including "mosques, hospitals and educational institutions", firing rockets and mortar shells from civilian population centers, "summoning civilians to come to operatives’ houses to serve as human shields for terrorist operatives in danger of being attacked by the IDF" and using children as human shield by "surrounding operatives with children to facilitate their escape from combat zones".[21][22] The IDF and Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a video accusing Hamas in a systematic use of civilians as human shield, including several photoes of Hamas militants using children as human shield and two videoes from the Gaza War (2008-2009) showing Hamas militants grabbing children, allegdly using them as a human shield.[23] The IDF also released a video taken from an UAV drone documenting Hamas militant launching a rocket from a roof of a civilian house and then using children to escort him out to avoid being targeted by IDF forces.[24]

[AttackPlanR]

Gurgles, is that you? Where you been man?

I'd like to say we missed you 'round here, but.......

[LarryN]

Someone at the Sun must have finally paid the American Thinker bill.

[Creekman]

I knew you were back. My American Thinker showed up in the driveway this morning.

[Daan]

Or Hamas. From your article:

The use of human shields is a crime. That applies to both sides.

Since the IDF has used human shields (including children), what's your opinion of the IDF's claim of being "the most moral army in the world"?

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[Joy in Mudville]

I knew you were back. My American Thinker showed up in the driveway this morning.

Someone has to deliver the garbage.

[Grindelwald]

Just distracted with getting ready for the lost decade.

We've already had a lost decade thanks to Dr. Bush.

[grggngll]

A lost decade with a growing economy and sub 5% UE was going to be easy to stomach.

In comparison the 0 induced lost decade with stagflation, high unemployment and a lost generation of workers who will never find a job again will be of epic proportions.

Watch what another 4 summers of recoveries will do to those who do want to work and get paid.

0 and his fellow travelers will do much more damage to socialism than any republican could have done.

[AttackPlanR]

Unexpectedly: Gurgle predictions = FAIL.