The "Human Shields": Lie Has Been Conclusively, Irrefutably Debunked by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-04-05 at 19:43:12 )

The "Human Shields": Lie Has Been Conclusively, Irrefutably Debunked by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Israel is not being "forced" to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.

One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDFs Lavender AI system that is not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses "human shields".

If you missed this story, a major report from +972 revealed that Israel has been using an AI system called Lavender to compile kill lists of suspected members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which have been carried out with hardly any human verification.

One automated system, psychopathically named "Where Is Daddy?", tracks suspects to their homes so that they can be killed along with their entire families. The IDF has been knowingly killing 15 to 20 civilians at a time to kill one junior Hamas operative, and up to 100 civilians at a time to take out a senior official.

+972s Yuval Abraham writes the following:

"Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes - usually at night while their whole families were present - rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called "Where Is Daddy?" also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their familys residences."

(Another +972 report by Abraham back in November revealed that IDF AI systems ensure that the Israeli military is fully aware of every child it is going to be killing in each airstrike, and that it deliberately targets civilian infrastructure as a matter of policy.)

A targeting system called "Where Is Daddy?" is among the strongest prima facie evidence of genocidal intent the world has ever seen. "please see here:"-Tom Studans (maximumwelfare) April 4, 2024

When questioned about these systems by +972, the IDF Spokesperson responded that "Hamas places its operatives and military assets in the heart of the civilian population, systematically uses the civilian population as human shields, and conducts fighting from within civilian structures, including sensitive sites such as hospitals, mosques, schools and United Nations facilities. The IDF is bound by and acts according to international law, directing its attacks only at military targets and military operatives."

The "human shields" narrative that has become so popular in Israel apologia insists that the reason the IDF kills so many civilians in its attacks on Gaza is because Hamas intentionally surrounds itself with noncombatants as a strategy to make the innocent Israelis reluctant to drop bombs on them. But as The Intercepts Ryan Grim recently observed on Twitter, this is soundly refuted by the revelation that Israel has been intentionally waiting to target suspected Hamas members when it knows they will be surrounded by civilians.

"Israels argument that they kill so many civilians because Hamas uses "human shields" is torn apart by the revelation that the IDF prefers to attack its "targets" when they are at home with their families," tweeted Grim. "It is not Hamas using human shields, it is Israel deliberately hunting families."

"A human shield is only a shield if your enemy values human life and seeks to minimize civilian deaths," Grim adds. "Israel deliberately maximizes the number of civilians it can kill by waiting until a target is with his entire family. Palestinians are not shields to Israel, they are all targets."

This is such an important point. Advocates for Palestine like Abby Martin have for years been presenting compelling arguments against Israels "human shields" claims, and common sense shows that the presence of civilians is clearly not a deterrent to Israeli airstrikes, but because of these +972 revelations the lie has now been thoroughly, irrefutably debunked.

Civilians are not getting killed because Hamas hides behind them, civilians are getting killed because the IDF waits until suspected Hamas members are around civilians to target them with high-powered military explosives.

A popular quote attributed to former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir says "Someday we may be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our children, but we will never forgive them for making us kill their children." You see this quote pop up all the time in varying iterations, shared approvingly by Israel apologists around the world as though it is something wise and brilliant instead of a horrific defense of murdering children. But it turns out this morally depraved quote is not even true by the most generous of interpretations: Israel is not being "forced" to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to.

The "human shields" narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer.

They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies.

They lied about mass rapes so that they could get away with committing rape.

They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians.

They lie about being victims so that they can victimize!

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