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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict - War crimes

There is a political case on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but in the conduct of the war there is a difference. In the intifada the Palestinians have descended to the lowest moral level, where they (a) deliberately kill civilian women and children, and (b) celebrate doing so. The Israelis do not do this. They try to hit military targets.

This is not by chance, but rather reflects their different moral universes. The Israelis have a religion (and a western philosophy) that believes in basic human morality, where in war one should try only to attack military targets. The Palestinians, sadly, do not have a religion that defends basic human morality, and so have become simply barbaric and racist, supporting the killing of all Jews, even children and infants. The majority of Palestinians support the killing of Jewish civilians. There is a political case on both sides of this conflict, but there is no moral equivalence between the two sides.

Image from here.
The image is from the killing of Danielle Shefi, age 5, by Hamas, 27 Apr 2002.
She was sitting awake in her bedroom in the morning, with her mummy and two baby brothers, when the Hamas gunman came in and sprayed them with automatic fire.
See photos and account of the killing.

Summary - Israel tries to hit military targets. The Palestinians try to kill civilians.

• The Islamist way of war

• Arithmetic of Pain, by Alan M. Dershowitz, makes the points:
  1. Israel sites its military facilities as far from civilians as it can. Palestinians and other Arabs could easily attack these and avoid civilian deaths. They choose not to. They choose to attack civilian areas instead. Why?
     1. Because Palestinian and other Arab fighters are happy to kill enemy civilians of all ages. They are all infidels - it doesn't matter to them. Because Palestinian and Islamist fighters have no morality, no honour and no sense of shame. They do not have the code of morality that normal people have, such as avoiding the innocent in war.
     2. Because attacking civilians is safer. Attacking an IDF base is extremely dangerous, and liable to get you killed without achieving anything. Much easier to attack defenceless women and children in homes and shops - if your morality allows you live with that.

  2. Hezbollah (and Palestinians and other Arabs) could easily launch their military attacks far from their own civilians. They choose not to. They choose to embed their military in their own civilians. Why?
     1. Because it will restrain the Israelis, because they are civilized. Israel doesn't want to kill enemy civilians, so they can be used as effective human shields. Hiding in civilians gives the Islamists a military advantage. This would not of course work in reverse. Israel embedding any target in civilians would not restrain Islamists attacking it in any way.
     2. Because if enemy civilians are killed by Israel, it is good for the enemy. It may be the only thing that will stop Israel, if the (normally hopeless) Islamist military attacks can't. Why? Not so much because of international opinion as because Israeli domestic opinion will restrain their military. Again, this would not work in reverse. Israeli civilian deaths would encourage, not demoralise or slow down, their enemies.

Of course, this is only one aspect of the shameful Palestinian/Islamist way of war. Another aspect would show the Palestinian "soldier" shooting into the baby carriage when it was alone.
I'm not being over-dramatic. You're familiar, of course, with the Palestinian attack where, in cold blood, they machine-gunned a baby in a baby seat at close range.

Israel tries to hit military targets:

• Palestinian civilians form a human shield around a target, forcing Israel not to strike it.
• Here's a question: Why don't Israeli civilians form human shields around targets? If you can answer that question, you are well on the way to seeing past the propaganda and finally understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict.

• International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
  • Death statistics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • The study An Engineered Tragedy shows that 70 percent of Israeli deaths are non-combatants. 15 percent of Palestinian deaths are non-combatants. Why the difference? What causes this difference?
    • summary of findings
    • article
  • Also, 95 percent of all Palestinian deaths are male. Why is this?
  • The difference comes because of the difference in Israeli and Palestinian morality in war.

The Palestinians use children in war

• Israel's rules of engagement against children and youths throwing rocks:
  • First, it should be noted that if you don't want to get hurt, stay at home. Don't throw rocks. Parents, don't let your children throw rocks and Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs, while snipers fire on Israeli troops from the background. Ultimately, that is the answer. Whatever rules of engagement Israel uses, children participating in riots and shooting will get killed. The answer is children should stay at home.
  • israelactivism.com
    • factsheets
      • Is Israel Using "Excessive Force" Against Palestinians?
      • Israel's Humane Army
      • The Myth of Excessive Force
  • camera.org
    • Excessive Force

• The Palestinians use children in war:
  • Palestinian Child Abuse
  • Participation of Children and Teenagers in Terrorist Activity during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
  • Israel's War Against Terror
    • Education for Terror
      • Children Under Fire
  • Let's Talk About the Children by Naomi Ragen - "I cannot help but gasp every time I see it: children in front of tanks, throwing stones at armed soldiers. And nowhere, but nowhere, is there a single mother running to grab their hands and lead them home. Where are the Palestinian mothers? And what in Heaven's name are they thinking when they let their children endanger their lives, and the lives of others"

• Indoctrination of Palestinian children, hatred in Palestinian schoolbooks

Attempts to find deliberate Israeli killing of civilians:

• Attempts to find deliberate Israeli killing of civilians in the last few decades:
  1. Qana, 2006 (screw-up trying to strike against Hezbollah rocket launching positions).
  2. Jenin, 2002 (ordinary urban warfare battle against combatants).
  3. Qana, 1996 (and here) (Hezbollah fired on Israel from right beside UNIFIL compound deliberately, hoping Israel would hit UNIFIL in error. It worked.)
  4. Hebron, 1994 (and here) (lone terrorist; not celebrated or honoured in Israeli schoolbooks, etc.)
     • The 1929 Hebron massacre of Jews by Muslims has no such excuse.
  5. Sabra and Shatila massacre, 1982 (carried out by Christians).

• None of the above are very convincing in showing actual intent by the Israeli state to kill civilians. Again, it seems to any objective observer that the Israelis try to follow the rules of war.

• THE CHALLENGE: If you believe the Israelis are "just as bad" as the Palestinians, find me a single incident since 1960 in which the Israeli state deliberately targeted and tried to kill civilians in the same way the Palestinians do every day. The Palestinians routinely and deliberately target and attack schools, shops, restaurants, nightclubs, buses, aircraft, civilians in their cars and houses, and so on, with no military target in sight. Show me a single incident since 1960 when the Israelis did this. Tell me about it here.

• These older incidents are more convincing:
  • Kafr Kassem, 1956
  • Qibya, 1953

• Not carried out by the State of Israel (est 1948):
  • Deir Yassin, 1948
  In general, I have no wish to defend Irgun (dissolved 1948) or the Stern Gang (dissolved 1948).

The Palestinians try to kill civilians:

Selected major attacks, 1920 to date

• The 1920 pogrom
• 1921 Jaffa massacre
• 1929 Hebron massacre
• 1929 Safed massacre
• 1938 Tiberias massacre
• Eilat bus massacre, 1954
• Shafrir synagogue massacre, 1956
• Mahaneh Yehuda market bombing, 1968
• Swissair Flight 330, 1970
• Avivim school bus massacre, 1970
• Lod Airport Massacre, 1972
• Munich Olympic Massacre, 1972 (and here)
• Pan Am Flight 110, 1973
• Kiryat Shmona massacre, 1974
• The Ma'alot school massacre, 1974
• TWA Flight 841, 1974
• Fatah bus massacre, 1978
• Gulf Air Flight 771, 1983
• EgyptAir Flight 648, 1985
• Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks, 1985
• TWA Flight 840, 1986
• Pan Am Flight 73, 1986
• Dolphinarium disco, 2001 (and here)
• Sbarro pizzeria, 2001
• Passover suicide bombing, 2002 (also here)
• Matza restaurant massacre, 2002
• Jerusalem bus 20 massacre, 2002
• Jerusalem bus 2 massacre, 2003
• Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, 2003
• Jerusalem bus 19 massacre, 2004
• Mercaz HaRav school massacre, 2008

Lists of all attacks, 1920 to date

• Chronology of Terrorist Attacks in Israel
  • Attacks in 1949-1967
  • Worst Terrorist Attacks in Israel
  • Terrorist and criminal attacks targeting children - Beslan, the Palestinian intifada, the Iraqi resistance. The Islamist way of war is all about killing women and children.

• Wikipedia
  • Terrorist incidents
    • Terrorist incidents in the 1990s
    • Terrorist incidents in the 2000s
  • Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • 1936-1939 attacks
  • List of terrorist attacks against Israel before 1967

• Israel government
  • Terrorism deaths in Israel - 1920-1999
  • Which Came First - Terrorism or Occupation - Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War - Taking on the stupid, naive idea that Palestinian terror is caused by the occupation. "Arab and Palestinian terrorism against Israel existed prior to the beginning of Israeli control over the West Bank and Gaza as a result of the Six Day War of June 1967, and even prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948."

• Suicide bombers believe they will go to some kind of paradise in the sky (or somewhere) as a reward for killing innocents. Unfortunately for them, there is no such place. They are just dead, and so are their victims.
  • Palestinian suicide bombers

• The documentary Suicide Killers (2006) by Pierre Rehov

• The killing of children

The Sbarro massacre of children, 2001

Picture from ADL. Also here.
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• The killing of 7 children in the Sbarro pizzeria, 2001 by a young Islamic fascist (also here).
• The young Islamic fascist killed 4 year old Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder and his 2 year old baby sister Hemda Schijveschuurder. And by "killed" we mean blew their limbs off, burned them alive.
• The young Islamic fascist killed 15 year old Malki Roth.
• The Palestinians celebrate the killing of the babies at the Sbarro pizzeria (also here)

• The leader behind this attack on defenceless children was the evil mass murderer Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Justice came calling for him in March 2004.

The killing of children

The Palestinians have no basic human morality in their conduct of war, and believe in killing all Jews, including children, toddlers and babies. Opinion polls show the majority of Palestinians support killing Israeli civilians. The Israelis are not like this. No opinion poll in Israel has ever shown majority support for killing Palestinian civilians. The Israelis fight a war against military targets. The Palestinians' war consists of almost nothing but war crimes against civilians.

• The Islamists are quite open about targeting women and children in their homes, schools, and in their daily life: "All the Jews are targets, whether military or civilian. It's our land and they are in the wrong place. It's their duty to pay attention to safety of their own families and move them away from the battlefield."
• Truly, Islamism has no morals, no honour, no dignity. It is as depraved as any idea that humanity has ever followed.

• They are openly depraved. The Islamist above says: "With the exception of Israel, we do not target civilians", making clear that in Israel they do target civilians.
• Of course, Islamists target civilians everywhere, all over the world. They hardly do anything else.

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The leader behind this attack on defenceless children was the evil mass murderer Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Justice came calling for him in Mar 2004.

• Tom Paulin and Danielle Shefi
  • The creepy Irish poet Tom Paulin exemplifies the moral sickness on the western left.
  • Tom Paulin's call for the killing of Jewish civilians (also here and here). See transcript, 4-10 April 2002.
  • The use of "Nazi" language is nauseating - like, as if someone like Paulin would have been opposed to the Nazis first time round.

  • 5 year old Danielle Shefi, shot dead cowering in her bedroom with her baby brothers by brave Islamic fascist heroes, 27 April 2002, a few days after Paulin's call for such killings. They also shot her 4 year old baby brother.
    • Someone on nazimedia celebrates the killing of Danielle Shefi
    • Mark Steyn on Tom Paulin and Danielle Shefi - the name Paulin will forever be linked with.

  • I feel like a leper, says Paulin. - Sadly, such views are not leprous enough. Paulin's views are quite normal in trendy social circles in the west, as is his absolute blindness in thinking of himself as some kind of "enemy" of Nazism.
  • In fact, the "Nazi test" is staring him straight in the face and he is failing it. The world is full of latter-day Nazis, and Paulin is an ally of theirs, not an enemy.
  • The butcher behind this attack was Salah Shahade. He was killed by a 2,205-pound bomb dropped by an IAF F-16 later that year.

• Terry Eagleton, another Irish-origin, British academic apologist for fascism.
  • Terry Eagleton's defence of the suicide bomber killers of women and children in Israel and Iraq - "They kill themselves because they can see no other way of attaining justice; and the fact that they have to do so is part of the injustice."
  • So when the starry-eyed young Islamist walks into the Sbarro Pizzeria and incinerates toddlers, babies and their mummies, the crime is being committed against him?
  • So the Iraqi bombers "have to" fight to stop democracy?
  • His ignorant article is full of unthinking assumptions, such as the assumption that the suicide bomber must be living a "wretched" life of "dispossession" and "lack of self-determination" (as opposed, for example, to simply being a religious fanatic).

• The Hatuel family (and here) - 4 children shot dead with their mummy, May 2004. The idealistic twentysomething Islamic fascists moved in on the stopped car and shot the four children - including a 2 year old in a baby seat - repeatedly at close range.
  • The Palestinians were not ashamed of this sick war crime committed in their name, but rather celebrated it. Also here. The thug Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority described the killers as "heroic". They described the children as "terrorists". Al Jazeera hate TV described the killing as a "resistance strike". None of this is unusual.
  • The leader behind this attack on defenceless children was Mohammed Khalil, leader of Islamic Jihad in southern Gaza. Justice came calling for him in Sept 2005.
  • A commenter expresses how I feel: "That murder has haunted me since it happened. What kind of human could machine-gun a baby in her carseat? Hatred, pure evil."

• Einat Haran, a 4 year old girl whose head was smashed on a rock until she was dead by the evil Lebanese monster Samir Kuntar in 1979.
  • Shamefully, Samir Kuntar was not executed but lives comfortably in prison today.
  • He was one of Abu Abbas's terrorists, and is a hero to morally depraved Palestinians today.

• Some other children, toddlers and babies deliberately attacked by Palestinian Islamofascists:
  1. Shaked Avraham, a 7 month old baby shot in her swing by a Palestinian gunman. See photo.
  2. The Cohen family of Kfar Darom - a bomb attack on a school bus full of children. 3 children have legs blown off.
  3. Shalev Shabbat Egosi (also here) - the deliberate burning of a 2 year old child. See photo.
  4. Gal Eisenmann (or Aizenman), a 5 year old girl killed in a suicide bombing of civilians. See photo (or here)
  5. Sinai Keinan, a 14 month old killed in a suicide bombing of civilians. See photo (and here).
  6. Avia Malka, 9 months old, killed by Palestinians at a wedding. See photo.
  7. Shoshana Nathanson, 5 months old, horribly injured in a Palestinian suicide attack on children on a bus. Her 3 year old sister Tehilla Nathanson was murdered. See photo (and here).
  8. Noam and Matan Ohayon, two baby boys shot by a brave young Palestinian Islamofascist as they cowered in their bedroom with their mummy. See photo.
  9. Shalhevet Pass (also here), a 10 month old deliberately shot by a sniper. See photo (and here).
  10. The Shabo family of Itamar - the killing of a mother and her 3 boys in their house.
  11. Danielle Shefi, a 5 year old shot by brave Islamic fascist heroes as she cowered in her bedroom with her baby brothers. See photo.
  12. Yehuda Shoham, a 5 month old stoned to death. See photo.

  
  

• These children are not "collateral damage". They are the targets. There are no other targets.
• That is the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
• That is the difference between the morality of Judaism and the morality of Islam, and why I find Judaism to be morally superior to Islam.

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Again, the reason why I show this is because the Palestinians wanted to kill or injure this child. They are happy at its suffering. They are not ashamed by this attack on women and children. They danced in the street and handed out sweets in celebration. And the majority of Palestinians support this.

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The Palestinians celebrate the killing of women and children

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They are celebrating the Islamist suicide bombing of two buses of women and children doing back-to-school shopping in Beersheba, which killed 16 innocent civilians - including a 3 year old little boy, Aviel Atash - with no military target anywhere in sight. The women and children on the bus were the targets. And the Palestinians are not embarrassed by this. Instead they dance in the streets.

Show me one, just one, instance when the Israelis did this - celebrated the killing of civilians. See comment: "I apologize for re-stating the obvious, but if Americans or Israelis openly celebrated the the murder of innocent civilians, pictures of the celebration would be plastered on the front page of every newspaper on the planet."

It is not unfair to show these pictures, since this is not just a small minority.
The majority of Palestinians celebrate these killings.

The Palestinians, with their primitive racist tribalism, want to kill women and children. The Israelis, with their sophisticated modern universal morality, don't. They only want to kill combatants. That is the difference between them. There are other differences of course, such as that Israelis believe in democracy and Palestinians are fighting to set up a tyranny. But the most fundamental distinction is that of targeting non-combatants. That is the difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

• Arab patients being treated in a Jewish hospital cheer as Jewish victims of suicide bombings are brought in. Says a doctor: " 'We're Jews. This is how we live. ... We're not saints, we're just doing our jobs. It's not easy, I admit. And it gets hard when they cheer when the bodies are brought in.' I looked at her. What did you say? She sighed. 'Yes, it gets hard when they cheer.' "
• Palestinians openly celebrate bus bombings: "Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, the apple of my eye ... A bombing every minute; Soldiers are afraid; In black bags; Chunks of flesh of Jews; In black bags; Chunks of flesh of Jews"

• Palestinians publicly celebrate the killing of a 73 year old woman in a shopping centre in Dimona, Israel, Feb 2008. Other innocents were critically injured and mutilated. And Palestinians celebrate. They are not ashamed.