There are two ways to tell if criticism leveled at Israel, is valid and true:
- By the volume of condemnation and level of vitriol towards the authors and anyone in agreement with them.
- a topic no one will even discuss.
The Goldstone Report, judging from the amount of responses in this thread, happens to be the latter. In contrast, there are many posts in several other threads about how Hamas uses children as human shields, although the Goldstone Report found no evidence of this. Even if it was true, why does that take the lions share of the disussion, when the Israeli's have killed Palestinian children 100 times that amount.
And those were the ones who got off lucky...
You don't even need the Goldstone Report to know if it's true (or not). Just look at the reaction by the pro-Israeli crowd when you bring up one of these instances. If you say a Palestiinian kid was blown to bits by an Israeli landmine, the pro-Israel response would go something like this...
..."Well, what makes you think Hamas didn't have the kid deliberately walk into the landmine?"
The pro-Israeli crowd, has lost all sense of humanity and reason.
"In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted.
"In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another..."
"A 2009 article in the UK Telegraph entitled '
Bullets in the brain, shrapnel in the spine: the terrible injuries suffered by children of Gaza,' investigated a situation in which doctors at a hospital near Gaza were 'almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children needing treatment for bullet wounds to their heads.'/2/
"The article began: 'On just one day last week staff at the El-Arish hospital in Sinai were called to perform sophisticated CAT brain scans on a nine-year-old, two 10-year-olds and a 14-year-old ? each of whom had a bullet still lodged in their brain, after coming under fire during the Israeli ground assault on Gaza.'
"Asked about the nature of these shootings, a physician replied:
'I cant precisely decide whether these children are being shot at as a target, but in some cases the bullet comes from the front of the head and goes towards the back, so I think the gun has been directly pointed at the child.'"
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