Virtually every time Israel attacks Gaza it blames Gaza’s civilian casualties on Hamas “human shielding.” This propaganda works to neutralize criticism of Israel‘s war on Gaza, shifting the blame from the Zionist colonizer to the indigenous Palestinians who are simply defending their land and lives. Through its long-term, ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, Israel has concentrated them into smaller and smaller areas - especially Gaza - making it one of Earth’s most densely populated places.
Gaza’s civilians and militants are in such close proximity because Zionist Israel has forced them to be – just as Nazi Germany concentrated Jewish civilians and militants in the Warsaw Ghetto as a step toward eliminating them. Consequently, there’s virtually no place from which Gaza’s militants – like their Warsaw Ghetto counterparts – are/were able to resist other than from the proximity of their civilians.
There’s a world of difference between this and human shielding, which involves intentionally positioning civilians between the resistance and the enemy. These realities also make a mockery of Israel’s ceaseless efforts to portray Gaza’s civilian casualties as “proportional” to its military objectives. Israel has no legitimate military objectives in Gaza. Its aim to ethnically cleanse most of Palestine is the prime source of the horrendous death and destruction, and its framing of Palestinian resistance to its criminal agenda as “human shielding” is the height of Orwellian doublespeak. Hamas is not practicing it any more than the Warsaw Ghetto Jews were.
Best,
Greg
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