you have doubted that the PA was actively recruiting young martyrs or using children as combatants
Yes. It is not clear that the Palestinian Authority actively recruits children combatants. Extremist groups, very probably. PA, not sure about it.
Can we take it now that you agree that the PA is actively pumping martyrdom to children, and is using children as combatants?
No. Because I have said nothing of the sort, and as a rule of thumb, you really should not assume I agree to things I do not say.
The charge was that a gang of kids and youths throwing stones, grenades, or molotov cocktails was in front, while gunmen positioned somewhere behind the kids fired, leaving the IDF with the choice of not answering deadly fire or killing children.
I understood it perfectly the first five times you said it.
Why the Israeli press reports this is obvious - they are reporting the conflict closely, and are horrified at this use of child combatants.
Assuming, of course, that their reports are correct.
My point was, and remains, that western media would have reported adults shooting from behind children, if Palestinians had such a strategy.
Why the Western press does not report more of it is more problematic. I would put most of it down to laziness and template journalism.
Oh, come on, Nadine! Western journalists are LAZY and that's why we see your stories only in Israeli press??? :-)
Why don't you just go the whole way and say it is an anti-Semite conspiracy of disinformation?
Sorry, but I'd rather listen to third party sources of information. Less of a bias and all that, you know.
Meanwhile, if you would like Western media to report more on the situation in the occupied territories, then maybe you should ask the Israeli government not to kick journalists out of the occupied territories.
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