Human shields: Hamas’ favorite tactic

Alan M. Dershowitz, special to the Los Angeles Times

Transcribed from the clipping

“Hamas’ win-win tactic of firing rockets at Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields… The Hamas tactic of firing rockets from schools, hospitals and mosques dates back to 2005, when Israel ended its occupation of Gaza.”

Context added by this archive

Two years after the Gaza clippings in which the shields volunteered, a syndicated column makes the phrase mean the opposite, and the archive holds both.

Cite this item

"Human shields: Hamas’ favorite tactic," Log Cabin Democrat, 16 January 2009. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-016

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Stop genocide in PalestineArgus Leader · 1 January 2009 · the same year
Re: Stop genocide in PalestineArgus Leader · 3 January 2009 · the same year
Israeli ground operation cuts Gaza Strip in twoThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 5 January 2009 · the same year

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