Thursday, March 13, 2008
Human Shields R Us:
MEMRI TV: Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields
Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Hamas MP Fathi Hammad, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008.
Fathi Hammad: [The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life."
Why don't outlets like the BBC go with material like this as a never ending source for lead stories? Oh yeah, they're too busy coming up with bold headlines like this: Israelis kill four in West Bank. Four whats? Oh, we find out as we read on, four "militants".
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The BBC is a stench. I'm sorry, I know that isn't exactly the most cogent appeal, but in terms of the news cum ideological presentations they forward there's perhaps no more apropos single word to represent what the talking heads and apparatchiks and upper level managements types at the BBC produce. Nicer and more diplomatic terms, yes, but a more apt and more perfectly fitting term, I doubt it.
I guess they don't contribute to an IRA.
I work with British press in Israel and they say that such claims are nonsense.