Posts Tagged: civilian casualties
Misplaced Moral Outrage on Civilian Casualties
JNS.org - “Israel has taken more steps to avoid harming civilians than any other military in history. … Steps that Israel has taken to prevent...
Hamas’ Systematic Use of Civilians to Promote Terrorism
Since seizing power in a 2007 violent coup, Hamas has developed a range of cynical ways to exploit civilians in the Gaza Strip to build...
Where’s the Outrage for Turkey’s Deadly Assault on the Kurds?
A full-fledged military assault on a predominantly Muslim community typically sparks a global wave of protests, condemnation, and sometimes calls by Islamist leaders for retaliation. This...
Anti-Israel Double Standards Enable Assad’s Brutality
Syria's civil war has claimed 470,000 lives since it started in March 2011, the Syrian Centre for Policy Research announced in February. That's an average of about...
Ten Lessons Learned by Hezbollah From Israel’s Summer War in Gaza
It seems like an eternity ago that fighting raged in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, dubbed by the IDF as Operation Protective Edge. Nonstop coverage...
United States Attack in Syria Parallels Israel’s in Gaza
The air attack by American and Arab forces against ISIS and other terrorist targets parallels Israel's air attacks against Hamas terrorist targets in Gaza. According...
Senior Israeli Officer in Gaza Saw Hamas Fighter Seize Children as Shields After Firing at IDF Forces (INTERVIEW)
A senior Israel Defense Forces officer told The Algemeiner that he personally witnessed a Hamas fighter seize children to hide behind after firing at Israeli...
Was Israel Justified in Going After Hamas Terrorist Tunnels? The Key Question for Any Legal Proceeding
The key question—both legally and morally—in evaluating Israel's recent military actions is whether the Israeli government was justified in ordering ground troops into Gaza to...
Media Pretends to Wake Up on Gaza Coverage…Too Little, Too Late
The BBC just published a cautionary article about Gaza, pointing out what bloggers have been saying for weeks: [I]f the Israeli attacks have been "indiscriminate," as the UN Human...
Dead Gaza Children Win Again, at the New York Times
The New York Times has an article about the looming war over statistics of what percentage of the Gaza casualties were civilian and terrorist. It...
Netanyahu Spokesman Mocks Al Jazeera Anchor for ‘Laughable’ Question, Faux Journalism (VIDEO)
In an August 1st interview with Al Jazeera, Israeli Prime Minister's Office Arabic spokesman Ofir Gendelman was grilled by Lebanese journalist Ghada Owais. In addition...
Gaza is Out of Joint: the Wages of War in Israel/Palestine
There is no moral high ground during a war. The wages of war, to adapt John Milton, is death. But the reason for fighting and...
No, President Obama, Israel Could Not Do More to Prevent Civilian Casualties
Imagine you are the Prime Minister of Israel or the President of the United States, or the Chief-of-Staff of either Army. Your soldiers are fighting...
Huffington Post Takes its Propaganda War Against Israel Into Outer Space
"[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned." - Arianna Huffington On July 24, 2014...
