Palestinians Sent Children Into War Zone 'Without Batting An Eye'

[drdon326]

An Israeli minister is asking what Palestinian children were doing out in the middle of the street in a war zone, where they could -- and did -- get hurt or killed.

Images of bloodied children being carried away from the scene in the Gaza Strip filled television screens around the world and brought about a swift international condemnation of Israel.

Israel is blamed for attacking Palestinian demonstrators on Wednesday, as hundreds of them marched toward Israeli troops to protest the Israeli army's siege of the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah.

In an effort to deter the demonstrators, an Israeli helicopter fired a missile at an empty field, the army said; and then a tank fired four tank shells toward an empty building in the vicinity.

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"This society that kills our children without batting an eye is ready to kill its own children without batting an eye and involve its children with armed men on a street full of bombs," Eitam said.


http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200405\FOR20040520d.html

[Kagemusha]

1. Because they thought their homes were gonna go BOOM?

People get angry when they think that's gonna happen.

Oh, I guess they've forgotten how it was in Germany.

[displacedtexan]

3. I'm having trouble following your train of thought, Kagemusha.

Did you mean to stop your post where you did?

The original poster wonders (as do I) how people can send their small children into the line of fire.

[lumpy]

33. The whole damned place

is a war zone.

[newyorican]

2. Maybe cause the "war zone" is their home?

What stupid dreck. The tanks and helicopters came into Rafah, where these kids live.

From the article:
"There is something so cynical. You need to ask what are little children doing in the street full of bombs in an area where there is shooting, armed men among them. What were they doing there in general? Why weren't they sitting at home?" Eitam asked in a radio interview.

Maybe because their homes were getting razed by IDF goonsquads?

Eitam is an ass-hat. Seek refuge behind him if you want...

Interesting RW site, at least it's an improvement over the INN hate-site...not much of one though.

[number6]

17. the RIGHT news, Right Now CNSnews

"Interesting RW site" yes isn't it

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[newyorican]

4. IDF kill kids without batting an eye...

is a more accurate Headline.

[number6]

16. I'll go with that ....

.

[Webster Green]

5. Israel has made Palestine's neighborhoods war zones...

Just like the US in Iraq, Israel finds it offensive that the people are resisting the occupation of their neighborhoods by murderous thugs.

Blame the victims, as you slaughter them in the streets. Amazing!

[madrchsod]

6. gee whiz,eitam, where are they supposed to go?

maybe you can send them to euro disney while the idf destroys their homes and their zoo...i think we send enough tax payers dollars to you guys that you could afford a a day trip to micky`s world. then all those kids could come back and live in a pile that was there home..so sorry the sight of dead children offends your beautiful mind

[Darranar]

7. Blame the victim?

All of Gaza is a war zone, and children have the right to march non-violently as much as anyone else.

What is disgusting is firing into a crowd of such demonstraters, resulting in the slaughter of ten and the wounding of dozens more.

[Karmadillo]

8. Just like that darn Martin Luther King.

A little known fact: the high-pressure hoses and attack dogs had been hidden in downtown streets by the SCLC. The Birmingham authorities had nothing to do with the violence directed against the children. Honest. I'm not kidding. Liberal media made the whole thing up. Really.

http://www.core-online.org/history/martin_luther_king.htm

<edit>

In May 1963 King and his SCLC staff escalated anti-segregation marches in Birmingham by encouraging teenagers and school children to join. Hundreds of singing children filled the streets of downtown Birmingham, angering Sheriff Bull Connor, who sent police officers with attack dogs and firefighters with high-pressure water hoses against the marchers. Scenes of young protesters being attacked by dogs and pinned against buildings by torrents of water from fire hoses were shown in newspapers and on televisions around the world.

more...

[drdon326]

9. Sadly.....

The palestinian terrorists use children as sheilds during
military operations with little regard to the welfare and safety
of these indocrinated young kids.

This is painfully obvious as when THE WEASEL exhorts children to
become "shahids" and when hamas et al use even 12 year olds to
deliver bombs that kill the innocent kid and everyone around him.
Very brave to use kids as "mules" in order to murder.

These terrorists now make every kid a potential terrorist.

shameful.

[Darranar]

10. Is it "shameful" to protest the invasion of one's home?

What's "shameful" is firing into a crowd and killing ten innocents, including children...

[drdon326]

12. .

I dont believe that that the explosion that killed 10
people was intentional.

As for your first question, Israel has every right to destroy
tunnels that feed the terrorism. Certainly the PA has done nothing
to stem the tide of munitions coming thru these tunnels.You will notice this operation is occuring in Rafah...the terrorist tunnel capital of the mid-east.

[Darranar]

14. 43 Palestinians dead, 1000+ homeless...

and they've found ONE tunnel. ONE!

How can firing into a crowd be unintentional? What do you think was intended?

[drdon326]

18. One tunnel ??

How many tunnels have been found since israel began its incursions
into Rafah ? I believe reports range from 44 to 90.

Just how many tunnels smuggling guns and materials for suicide bombs are acceptable to you before israel should go in
and destroy them?

[drdon326]

19. Respectfully request a answer...

to my question.

[Classical_Liberal]

21. Suicide bombs don't have to be smuggled

The weapons that do have to be smuggled are used on the IDF.

[drdon326]

23. Really ??

"The weapons that do have to be smuggled are used on the IDF."

And you know this how?? How do you know those weapons are
specifically against the IDF??

Those tunnels arent some new-age Holiday inns.

[Classical_Liberal]

24. Because suicide bombs don't have to be smuggled

They can be made locally using any variety of garden chemicals and the like. The weapons that do have to be smuggled are missles, guns, and the like. The tunnells are also used to smuggle cheap cigaretts. It is just an excuse to kill some Palestinians, and make some more of them homeless.

[drdon326]

25. WOW.

"It is just an excuse to kill some Palestinians, and make some more of them homeless."

I will let that speak for itself.

[Darranar]

27. Link? n/t

[newyorican]

29. Don't believe it was intentional? Want your words with or without salt?

Your argument is with the IDF (get ready for story number 16...or is it 17...)

Israel says it fired on Rafah demo to protect special forces

JERUSALEM (AFP) May 21, 2004
The Israeli army said Friday it fired earlier this week on Palestinian protesters in Rafah -- shots that claimed 10 lives -- to protect a secret special unit from being cut off from the main contingent.

<a pass the salt do those words taste good snip>

On Wednesday, the Israeli army said one missile was fired in an open area as a warning to the Rafah protesters to stop their march.

Four tank shells and automatic weapons fire then ensued as the initial missile fired "did not deter the crowd", according to an army statement.

more...mmmm, words...yummy

[newyorican]

32. no answer...not surprised...

slink away with tail between legs...

[newyorican]

35. still waiting for an answer...

Doc...you're being paged...

[TexasProgresive]

31. Isn't it sad that a people have to resort to tunnels and smuggling

to get the weapons that they need to protect themselves from an aggressor who wants nothing more then to annihilate them and take their home?

[Webster Green]

11. One man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom fighter".....

Nice use of the buzzword to demonize your enemy, but I'm not buying it. It is painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain that Israel is the aggressor. Like the U.S., They have become what they profess to hate.

Sad!

[newyorican]

28. that reminds me...more fun & games from the goons...

Inquiry after Israeli forces caught using boy as shield (on Jeep)

Feel free to slink away quietly or deny, deny, deny...your choice, as it won't change a thing...

[TexasProgresive]

13. I agree with posters -where would they go etc

but who could stop them from entering into protest with their people? It is not surprizing that children are entering into protests and even attempting military action against those who seek to destroy their homes, families and in the end their people. They may as well stand up against the IDF and die then be killed in a few years when they are adults. When there is little hope in the future even kids will take desperate means. It's not like these kids can hang out at McDonalds or the Mall, their playground and their homes are a "war zone" created by the unindicted baby killer Sharon. If Israel wants the sympathy of the world and the average US citizen they need to change directions.

[bemildred]

15. MK Eitam's concern for Palestinian children is very touching.

:puke:

[Jack Rabbit]

22. I share your sentiments

Mr. Eitam once said that Palestinians are "a cancer in our midst." He would claim Israeli sovereignty over the occupied territories and suggests that a Palestinian state could be established in Jordan and the Sinai. Never what the Palestinians think about that, what do the Jordanians and the Egyptians think about it? Or does he have any more regard for their thoughts than he has for those of the parents of dead Palestinian children?

Eitam is a major part of the problem. Like the rest of the Israeli and Palestinian right, he offers no constructive solutions.

[bemildred]

26. Thank you.

I am sometimes a bit poleaxed by the tendency on both sides to
grab whatever ammunition comes to hand and throw it at the other
side, paying no attention to whether the things they say make
any sense either separately or when taken as a whole.

I feel confident that the MK does not care a rats ass about
Palestinian children, and I don't expect he cares all that
much about Israeli children either.

It reminds one of apes in a zoo throwing their own shit at each
other, and deserves about as much attention.

[Violet_Crumble]

30. Apes in a zoo...

It very much reminds me of that. I'm 110% sure that the MK doesn't give a shit about Palestinian children, and probably not much more about Israeli children, as do other folk he speaks for....


Violet...

[Classical_Liberal]

20. Maybe because their homes are the war zone and they are imprisoned

in a war zone by Israel's fence.

[Djinn]

34. feel the same way

"An Israeli minister is asking what Palestinian children were doing out in the middle of the street in a war zone, where they could -- and did -- get hurt or killed."

about settlers moving into the OT drdon? do their kids deserve to get shot because of where their parent's live?

[Forkboy]

36. Is there anybody you wont quote?

strange bedfellows,and all that I guess :puke: