No surprise here. Amnesty International released a report claiming that Israel committed war crimes against the Palestinians in the 22 day offensive at the end of last year. The BBC reported the alleged crimes in an article titled “Amnesty details Gaza ‘war crimes’” by citing the findings of the “independent human rights report” in an effort to further the propaganda being peddled by international leftists.
Israel committed war crimes and carried out reckless attacks and acts of wanton destruction in its Gaza offensive, an independent human rights report says.
Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed using high-precision weapons, while others were shot at close range, the group Amnesty International says.
First things first, using the term “independent ” is another one of those trick words as if “independent” implies objective, honest and fair. However a simple reading of the BBC report underscores the lies in the report.
First the setup:
The 117-page report by Amnesty International says many of the hundreds of civilian deaths in the conflict “cannot simply be dismissed as ‘collateral damage’ incidental to otherwise lawful attacks – or as mistakes”.
It says “disturbing questions” remain unanswered as to why children playing on roofs and medical staff attending the wounded were killed by “highly accurate missiles” whose operators had detailed views of their targets.
Yes disturbing questions certainly need answers. But we actually get the answer in the BBC report although it is hidden behind another lie.
Human shields
The Amnesty report says no evidence was found that Palestinian militants had forced civilians to stay in buildings being used for military purposes, contradicting Israeli claims that Hamas repeatedly used “human shields”.
However, Amnesty says Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups had endangered Palestinian civilians by firing rockets from residential neighbourhoods and storing weapons in them.
It says local residents had in one case told researchers that Hamas fighters had fired a rocket from the yard of a government school.
The Israeli military has repeatedly blamed Hamas for causing civilian casualties, saying its fighters operated from buildings like schools, medical facilities, religious institutions, residential homes and commercial premises.
In the cases it had investigated, Amnesty said civilian deaths “could not be explained as resulting from the presence of fighters shielding among civilians, as the Israeli army generally contends”.
So you see the rub here. These idiots at Amnesty International, with the help of the BBC, have just redefined the term human shield. Imagine the children in the school telling the Hamas terrorists to leave their schools. What is there to resist? Somehow Amnesty International has found a way to report that there is no evidence of Hamas using human shields even though they themselves reported that Hamas did indeed fire rockets from residential neighborhoods and schoolyards; which is by definition, using human shields!
Think the logic couldn’t get more twisted? Wrong.
The report gets more anti-Semitic as it goes on as the platform provided by the BBC cherry picks the Jew Hater report to claim that Israel is the party using human shields.
However, Amnesty does accuse Israel of using civilians, including children, as human shields in Gaza, forcing them to remain in houses which its troops were using as military positions, and to inspect sites suspected of being booby trapped.
It also says Palestinian militants rocket fire from the Gaza Strip was “indiscriminate and hence unlawful under international law”, although it only rarely caused civilian casualties.
Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniya declined to comment on the Amnesty International criticism, but said: “We believe the leaders of the occupation state must be tried for these crimes.”
Get this? Hamas isn’t using human shields by firing from residential houses and schools but Israel is using human shields by searching those houses suspected of containing terrorists and weapons? This is how low, deceitful, dangerous and complicit the mainstream media and supposed “independent” groups are as they take on the propaganda war against Israel. But how can we be surprised? This is the pattern nowadays. They are taking their lead from other lefties and international bodies that wear their anti-Semitic, racist, hatred of Jews on their sleeves.
As for the report you can read it yourself via the link provided at the top of this post. Amnesty International dedicated 66 pages detailing what they consider to be Israeli war crime, followed by 10 pages that pretends to cover the “conduct of Palestinian Armed Groups”. Of course part of that 10 page synopsis contains a section on the rational for firing rockets into Israel as told by the terrorists.
In their statements, leaders and spokespeople of the political and armed wings of Hamas and other Palestinian groups generally say that rocket attacks against nearby Israeli towns and villages are launched in response to killings of Palestinians and other attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza or the West Bank or in response to the Israeli blockade of Gaza. At times they mention specific Israeli attacks or assassinations of their leaders or militants, or refer to Israeli attacks or other abuses in general.
I suppose AI had to put this statement in where they did. Otherwise their 10 page coverage of Hamas might have been reduced to 8.
During WWII Joseph Goebbels used propaganda as a tool to in it’s mission to exterminate millions of Jews. It is no different today as the offensive against Jews continues with the help of government supported humans rights groups and state run media organizations that team up to paint a one sided picture in a collaborative attempt to bring Israel to her knees. Weasels one and all.
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