Jewish equivalent of ISIS?
This logic has been uttered by a prominent Israeli journalist: Mass shootings of Palestinians have saved their lives. Reporting from the sniper positions near the Gaza fence, Dan Margalit writes in his
Hebrew-only Haaretz opinion (Saturday):
From this position, the events looked a bit different than from the Karni crossing near Nahal Oz. Now I am convinced, more than at the beginning of the fighting about 10 weeks ago, that the massive shooting at the beginning of the battles [sic] has saved many Palestinian lives, and of course, first and foremost, lives of Israelis."
And just how does he get to the logic, that mass shooting of Palestinians is good for them (and of course,
first and foremost for us, and despite the fact that no real "battles" have really occurred in these demonstrations)? Margalit elucidates:
"It is necessary to understand the tactic: The Palestinians raise a pillar of smoke in hope to cause the soldiers breathing difficulty. Under the cover of smoke and while the soldiers are busy defending themselves from it, the Palestinians hope to breach the fence, bypass the sniper positions, and to insert in to Israeli territory terrorists and children and handicapped. Breach of the fence and the setting up of a temporary Palestinian outpost upon Israeli soil within Green Line (pre-1967) territory would have caused an increased shooting in order to expel them and increased the number of killed. Perhaps the Hamas leadership is interested in this, but not the protesters. Have they despaired? It is unclear."
So this is the scare scenario, which Margalit assumes: "terrorists and children and handicapped" would set up a temporary outpost. And what would happen then? We would have to massacre them, of course, like
we've regularly done to "infiltrators" since the state was established. And who would want that? Do Palestinians just want to die? Apparently, Margalit even concedes that Palestinians generally don't want to die. But Hamas wants them to. Hamas wants to use children and handicapped (and
don't forget medics too) as human shields - human cannon fodder - because they know Israeli soldiers can't help massacring an outpost of Palestinian children and handicapped.
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