Log Cabin Democrat · Conway, Arkansas · 16 January 2009
CP-2009-016
Human shields: Hamas’ favorite tactic
Hamas’ favorite tactic
Alan M. Dershowitz, special to the Los Angeles Times
Shown from the top. The whole column — 6.8 times taller than it is wide — is in the enlargement.
Transcribed from the clipping
“A temporary cease-fire in Gaza that simply allows Hamas to obtain more lethal weapons will assure a repetition of Hamas’ win-win tactic of firing rockets at Israeli civilians while using Palestinian civilians as human shields.” The pull-quote set into the column reads: “A bad day for Hamas is a day in which its rockets fail to kill or injure any Israeli civilians.”
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. The scan is 146 pixels wide across four columns, so only the line under the headline, the byline, the opening sentence and the pull-quote have been re-read against it.
Cite this clipping
"Human shields: Hamas’ favorite tactic," Log Cabin Democrat, 16 January 2009, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2009-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2009-016
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