(2) On the other hand, I AM saying that your INITIAL CLAIM of Palestinian gunmen shooting from behind Palestinian children, deliberately using them as shields, and then Israeli soldiers inadvertently killing these children although they try to aim behind them DOES NOT APPEAR anywhere else than ISRAELI SOURCES.
The pattern that I was trying to establish, zonder, is of children being sent to the front to throw rocks, grenades or molotov cocktails, while gunmen shoot from the rear of them, thus either drawing live fire or using the children as shields. Three of the sources that discuss the use of children in firefights were non-Israeli. Two of them were Arab. The Israeli sources are also good, Haaretz is a reputable newspaper which is not government controlled, unlike every Arab newspaper.
Where are the children going to be but the front? I mean, how far can they throw rocks or grenades? When Arab sources - which I have posted on this thread - speak of 40 Gazan boys who have lost their arms while throwing grenades - while being paid to throw grenades, what does that speak of but a deliberate use of children as combatants? When many sources speak of Palestinian schools teaching the glory of martyrdom to impressionable schoolboys (and there have been many Western articles on this in the past two and a half years), and the boys rushing to the front even if their mothers try to stop them, what does that speak of but a deliberate PA strategy to win the war in the newspapers by providing an continual stream of dead kids, to counterbalance the Israeli kids who are being deliberately targeted at bus stops and pizzerias? |
