Netanyahu: Hamas Wants 'Telegenically Dead Palestinians'

[KoKo]

Netanyahu: Hamas Wants 'Telegenically Dead Palestinians'

Published on Jul 21, 2014
"Reiterating a point made in an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Sunday morning that Hamas was intentionally endangering Palestinian civilians to create gruesome images that would turn the international community against Israel.

"We're sad for every civilian casualty," Netanyahu said. "They're not intended. This is the difference between us. Hamas deliberately targets civilians and deliberately hides behind civilians. They embed their rocketeers, their rocket caches, their other weaponry from which they fire, which they use to fire on us, in civilian areas. What choice do we have? We have to protect ourselves.""* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

[HooptieWagon]

1. And Israel is giving them a plentiful supply. nt

[Maedhros]

2. Indeed. The more Palestinians that are killed, the more legitimacy Hamas can claim

as it "fights for the Palestinian people."

Similarly, the more rockets Hamas launches the more legitimacy Israel can claim as it herds Palestinians into ghettos, walls them off and takes their land.

[KoKo]

3. Glenn Greenwald compares Netanyahu's Comment to Goebbels...

(I have to say...I agree with Glenn. There should be calls for Netanyahu to resign over this...but, we know he won't)

Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead’ Comment Is Grotesque but Not Original

By Glenn Greenwald
July 22, 2014

Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, on CNN, addressing worldwide sympathy for the civilian victims of Israeli violence in Gaza:

They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.

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Joseph Goebbels, November 16, 1941, essay in Das Reich, addressing Germany sympathy for German Jews forced to wear yellow stars:

" The Jews gradually are having to depend more and more on themselves, and have recently found a new trick. They knew the good-natured German Michael in us, always ready to shed sentimental tears for the injustice done to them. One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is."

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One can say many things about a military operation that results in more than 75 percent of the dead being civilians, many of them children, aimed at a population trapped in a tiny area with no escape. The claim that there is no intent to kill civilians but rather an intent to protect them is most assuredly not among them.

Even stalwart Israel supporter Thomas Friedman has previously acknowledged that Israeli assaults on Lebanon, and possibly in Gaza, are intended ”to inflict substantial property damage and collateral casualties” because “the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain on the civilians” (which, to the extent it exists, is the classic definition of “terrorism”). The most generous claim one can make about what Israel is now doing in Gaza is that it is driven by complete recklessness toward the civilian population it is massacring, a form of intent under centuries of well-settled western law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39183.htm

[iandhr]

4. They need each other.

[mike_c]

5. of course, Israel could easily undermine those dastardly plans...

...by simply not murdering so many non-combatant civilians. Take that, Hamas!

[KoKo]

6. Go to the end of it.......if you don't get buffering

for SOS Kerry's comments on CNN. It's interesting.

[Helen Borg]

7. Right, because usually...

When people get blown up to bits the scenes is naturally pretty