Netanyahu: Hamas wants ‘telegenically dead Palestinians’

[shira]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Sunday that Hamas was callously making use of Palestinian casualties for the sake of the visual impact in television images and called on the international community to intervene and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Netanyahu accused Hamas of a cynical disregard for human life. “These people are the worst terrorists — genocidal terrorists,” he said. “They call for the destruction of Israel and they call for the killing of every Jew, wherever they can find them.” “They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can,” the prime minister continued. “They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.”

Netanyahu pointed out that Israel had allowed cement into Gaza for the purpose of constructing buildings, schools, and hospitals, but Hamas terrorists diverted it for use in tunnels. “They put seven hundred tons of concrete into each one of these terror attack tunnels to penetrate Israel,” he said. “Now we’ve discovered dozens of them, so you’re talking about tens of thousands of tons of concrete instead of going to the benefit of the school, the population, going for terrorism against Israel.”

Adding that Hamas terrorists “don’t care” about the death and destruction that they have brought down on the local population, he suggested that the international community should “undertake a program to demilitarize Gaza.” “I think the international community has to, once this is put in place, we really have to undertake a program to demilitarize Gaza and to change the situation because it’s unacceptable. What makes it unacceptable is Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”

...In another interview with the BBC’s Arabic department, also on Sunday, Netanyahu urged Gazans to evacuate areas where battles are being fought, for their own safety. “Israel regrets every injury to civilians,” he said. “I call on the residents of Gaza, don’t stay there, Hamas wants you to die, we want you to be safe.” The prime minister noted that Israel had used every possible means to communicate to Gazan residents the need to move to safe areas.

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[DetlefK]

1. How about disarmament of Hamas in exchange for a stop on the land-theft in the Westbank?

[elleng]

2. Israel using flechette shells in Gaza.

Palestinian human rights group accuses Israel military of using shells that spray out thousand of tiny and potentially lethal darts.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israel-using-flechette-shells-in-gaza

[Fred Sanders]

18. Making the dead even more telegenic I guess, Bibi needs to use weapons that leave no trace of the

dead.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. While Netanyahu and the hasbaristas want to bury the dead Palestinians under a blanket of excuses.

[bemildred]

4. And Bibi intends to give them what they want. nt

[hrmjustin]

5. Stop killing them Bibi!

[cali]

6. and that fucking pig Netanyahu just wants them dead and gone.

right wingers like YOU, shira, really should just... go away.

[shira]

7. Notice all the deflection...again? Hamas gets a free pass....

No condemnation whatsoever of Hamas' deliberate strategy to kill Palestinians.

There's something very ugly about all this hatred of Israel.

[PCIntern]

8. Is it not fascinating....?

it is positively Rove-ian.

"I am going to project upon that of which I am guilty By you denying it, you are implicating yourself and virtually confessing to the crime."

Israel is acting as a sovereign state attacked - these attacks are not limited to the so-called Occupied Lands but extend up to Tel Aviv. Hamas is hiding behind its own vulnerable children thus the Israelis are the aggressors and Hamas are the valiant freedom fighters, or some such jargon to that effect. If Israelis die, they are deserving of it.

The poster who is calling you a right-winger is exactly true to form: if Israel would be overrun by the Hamas forces, their Jihad requires them to slaughter every Jew, beginning with those in Israel. This is what would happen without a doubt. And this would be apparently just fine, and merited. If you object to that, you are a right-winger, correct? And whilst they sputter that for not one instant do they support Hamas, do notice that they do not for one instant repudiate the actions of these terrorists.

It is the advocacy of fomenting the violent overthrow of a sovereign state. This is now acceptable behavior here.

[shira]

12. And then there are the other threads. War porn. Hate incitement vs Israel....

...from pro-Hamas sites like Mondoweiss. We may as well be seeing OP's from David Duke's Stormfront as the sanctimony is the same. I think just about every post from Mondoweiss is ending up here. We should re-name the forum Mondoweiss II.

Yes, war is terrible and it's terribly tragic anyone is dying in this. I'd give anything so that 0 innocents died in this conflict. But notice the pro-Hamas talking points in each new thread, trashing Israel, Israel guilty of war crimes, evil, bloodthirsty, etc. It's the same old shit blood-libels from the past 20 centuries. Israel is under zero threat, it's perverse they're doing this. Pure evil. What other way is there to see it?



Not a word of condemnation for Hamas. And is it me, or does it seem they get their rocks off doing this?

[Fred Sanders]

20. Anyone not loving Israel's government like an only child is auto labelled as hate, they got nothing

else to say in light of the slaughter, because math don' t lie and human blood is always red.

[PCIntern]

21. No...................

dealing with the anti-Israel folk is like having a conversation about Iraq with Dick Cheney and his family.

[kjones]

24. You're pretty much the go-to for deflection.

"Hamas is bad" does not absolve the IDF of the responsibility
to avoid civilian deaths. I don't know why you think it does.
The large percentage of civilian casualties either speaks to IDF
incompetence or their eagerness to oblige Hamas by killing
civilians who, for all intents and purposes, are hostages of
both Hamas and Israel at this point.

And I know, I know, you really want people on here to be
anti-semites because that would make your job (well, you
seem to treat it like one) so much easier. You could just
spend all day copy/pasting accusations of bigotry instead
of feeble attempts to defend military actions which quite
clearly affect civilians disproportionately.



I haven't yet seen anyone on here give Hamas a free pass.
If you have, and you want to send me a link, I'll go over
and voice my disagreement and we can get over this
"You must love Hamas" strawman bull together.
You can fight the addiction, the power is in you!

So please, disengage strawman warp 5 and power
down the deflectors.

[Fred Sanders]

25. Well said, the transparency of his one sided propaganda blitz is getting old.

[King_David]

9. I'm not the only one here thinking you OTT ,

Careful it can't be good for your blood pressure .

Best take a break from DU for a bit.

[PCIntern]

10. If I had written that comment directed at a DUer you can best bet

that it would have been alerted upon and I would be in Time Out until the Middle East is resolved: in about 7000 years or when they run out of oil, whichever comes first.

[King_David]

11. Yes I agree .

[King_David]

13. Yesterday I had a post hidden because the alerter said

I was trying to make protesters out to be antiSemitic . Even though all I did was quoted from the article what the protesters were chanting .

A direct quote from the article of what the anti Israel protesters were chanting was hidden .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=70653

[shira]

14. Yes, this is their time for propaganda. You're spoiling it....

Anyone not spewing the hatred vs Israel needs to be muted. They don't like their religious beliefs challenged.

[PCIntern]

22. ...and always has to have the last word...

if you post anything at all...like how the weather is in Missouri, there is a post laced with hatred for Israel following directly.

[Fred Sanders]

19. The media equating the heavily armed nation of Israel with an imprisoned militia, Israel versus

Hamas as equal nations, is a triumph of Western media propaganda.

[Fred Sanders]

15. Did Bibi say that? And people are defending him? Astonishing. And since the nation of Israel has so

few casualties, fighting the Hamas militia, guess this is him just complaining they do not have near as many photo ops for use by military psychological and propaganda warfare.


You are losing it Bibi, lots of sleepless nights when you lie in pools of children's blood.

[shira]

16. How is he wrong? You think he's making it up? n/t

[Fred Sanders]

17. Telegenically dead......the frustration of not having his own telegenic dead people must be so

frustrating

[PCIntern]

23. Word salad. nt