Background: A few days ago Hamas terrorists fired mortars against Israel from near a UN school in Jabalya, Gaza. The school was filled with human shields and explosives to make sure that if Israel shot back lots of people would be killed. The UN did not protest this use of their school in any way. Israel fired back, there was a secondary explosion due to the explosive and lots of people were killed, as apparently was planned. The Arabs, the UN, and the mainstream media, who knew the facts, blamed Israel. The rest of the world soon followed suit.
Here is a video of the same school being fired from in the past:
It is a war crime to shoot from a school, mosque, hospital, or any other area which is normally supposed to be kept outside the fighting. It is also a war crime to hide behind civilians. It is also a war crime to fire weapons of war at civilians, which is the S.O.P. of Hamas and all terrorists.
But to put explosives in your own schools so your own people can get killed for the sake of publicity? That is murder.
...The people who now mourn the "innocents" who died in yesterday's attack on the United Nations school don't question why people remained in the building from which these weapons were fired. They don't question that this defies human instinct and certainly what should have been every parent's first reaction. The people in the school died for three simple reasons:
1. Palestinians decided to use the United Nations school as a launching base to attack innocent civilians. This wasn't the first time they had used the school. Months ago, Israel filed a formal complaint to the United Nations. Clearly, nothing was done to stop this abuse and so we come to reason #2.
2. The United Nations did not stop the Palestinians from using their area. One might argue that they could not stop them - and the answer, the simple answer was that they should then have made it clear, publicly, that they could not offer a place of refuge in a firing range. They should not have allowed families to take refuge in such a place. And that brings me to #3.
3. The families and parents. I heard a father mourning the death of his son. He blames the Israeli government, and I blame him. "Are you insane?" I want to ask him. "How could you allow your son to be near mortars being fired? What did you think Israel was going to do?" Why didn't you take your son? Why didn't you behave responsibly? It was YOUR job to protect him; to love him enough to keep him safe and it doesn't take a genius to figure out leaving your son in a building from which mortars are being fired in the middle of a war is negligent, stupid, insane, and so so wrong. How could Israel have known that there were people in the building? All they could know is that mortars were being fired from that location. My son is stationed far from the cities. Why? Because if he is a target, we don't want civilians nearby. We do not hide in hospitals, in schools, in homes. Why, why do the Palestinians? And if they do, why, why does the world blame Israel?
People will ask how it is that I don't blame Israel and the answer is simple. Fire came from that building. Call it what you want - a school, a refuge, a mosque, a home... if you shoot at an enemy... common sense would say the enemy will shoot back. Do it from inside a mosque, and the mosque becomes a target. Do it from inside a school, and the school becomes a target. Do it from behind your citizens and families, and you show the true nature of your society, your culture, your cause.
Below her text, "A Soldier's Mother" shows many visual images which mainstream media neglected to show viewers.
