Analysis: Hamas - A cruel and cynical enemy

[Fozzledick]

On the first full day of a truce with Hamas, the IDF redeployed behind the Israeli border, and senior army officers began sharing their war stories.

The accounts all point to a cruel and cynical enemy that is willing to use kindergartens, schools and hospitals as rocket bases and tunnel covers, and which actively seeks to get Gazan civilians killed and injured.

One source on Tuesday spoke of how the army uncovered the Gazan shaft of a cross-border tunnel. It surfaced in a hothouse located right next to a Palestinian kindergarten. It led directly to Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara, where Hamas gunmen planned to massacre civilians.

Other units found rocket launch tripods in school playgrounds.

“At the entrance to Beit Hanun, there were more homes with booby-traps than not,” said another army officer.

“Much of the destruction of homes in Gaza was because of Hamas’s booby traps.”

A brigade commander saw seven buildings utterly destroyed, when IDF shells set off bombs planted by Hamas inside them. “You see the buildings jump up and collapse, and you know a shell can’t do that to a multi-story building,” the source said.

In recent days, the IDF came under increased Hamas mortar fire, and when it traced the origin of the attacks, it found that they came from kindergartens and playgrounds in Gaza.

http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Analysis-Hamas-A-cruel-and-cynical-enemy-370193

[notadmblnd]

1. Really? And should we believe that this is an unbiased analysis?

A source? No names, no real facts. It's ridiculous to think that Americans will still buy this propaganda. You might still be able to sell articles like that to the Israeli people, but I don't think it will sway anyone here.

[Fozzledick]

2. You really need to take your head out of the sand.

[notadmblnd]

3. and you need to look in a mirror when you say that.

[840high]

4. I believe it.

[sabbat hunter]

19. no more or less biased

than some of the stuff posted from 972 or mondoweiss.

[King_David]

20. Both with agendas

Mondoweiss much less credible .

[FBaggins]

22. Are there unbiased sources available?

The casualty figures essentially come from Hamas... the number of rockets comes from the IDF... etc.

[bravenak]

5. The IDF murders hundreds of children in one month.

Blames anybody else but themselves.

[Fozzledick]

6. I'm sure Hamas appreciates your efforts to promote their propaganda.

They've worked so hard to create it.

[bravenak]

7. Oh, no. They have Likud and Bloody Bibi to thank for that.

And I'm young enough to matter in twenty years. Israel needs to get folks like me on their side, and quick.

The occupation and Israel created Hamas.

"You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Bob Marley

[Mosby]

8. Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

[bravenak]

9. Bob Marley

Bob Marley Get Up Stand Up Lyrics
Artist: Bob Marley Lyrics
Album: Track 4 on Exodus
Length: 3:16



Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!

Preacher man, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!

Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)


Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game,
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better,
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! Git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up!
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight!

[Fozzledick]

10. Some people are satisfied with fooling themselves.

Also: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that's all you need." (attributed to Richard Nixon )

[bravenak]

11. Yes i have noticed.

Many people (like Bibi) fool themselves into thinking they can fool all Americans all the time. Bibi sure thinks we are dumb.
Fortunately we can seek out information and fact check him and the IDF. DID you know the IDF Used children as human shields?

[Fozzledick]

12. I see you work hard at it also.

So much effort for such worthless results.

[bravenak]

13. Israel does all the hard work of allowing Likud free reign.

And letting the IDF murder civilians.

[840high]

14. Hamas can stop

their inefficient rockets.

[bravenak]

16. And those big strong soldiers can stop.

Killing children. There's one IDF soldier who claims he sniped 13 children. In one day. And i'm supposed to think Hamas are the real terrorists? Nope. I used to despise Hamas, until the IDF started killing babies.

Israel can lift the blockade and give back ALL the land they stole and then pay restitution to the families of the victims. Dismantle the settlements and stop terrorizing the Palestinians. You can't steal, steal, steal, oppress, oppress, oppress, and expect not to have violent resistance. Even the US had slave revolts.

Victim turned perpetrators are still perpetrators.

[notadmblnd]

18. Well why all the killing of innocents if Hamas rockets are so inefficient?

You just admitted that even you know that Hamas rockets are not a serious threat. Yet you are here supporting the murder of more than a thousand innocent Palestinian children, women and old people.

You Israel apologists have been propagandized into believing that the Palestinian people are sub-human.

[Fozzledick]

15. Back to square one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113475823#post6

[bravenak]

17. Oh, no!

They have Bloody Bibi to thank for that. He was behind the creation of so many telegenically dead bodies.

[King_David]

21. My guess is that I'm younger than you

And besides a few people posting on these boards I don't think Hamas and their worldwide allies have any chance of winning over any group of Americans any time soon matter what the age group.

[bravenak]

23. I never said Hamas is winning.

It's just that Israel is losing. I'm 33. I don't know how old you are Doctor.