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How is it not racist to suggest that a Palestinian mother would willingly leave their children and family underneath the bullseye of a Hellfire as a human shield because of some propaganda value for a local militia group?
How is it not dehumanizing and genocidal to even suggest this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113468198
CNN......
Edit: Thanks for the source, you know who you are:
Mother Dies Shielding Children
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Suha Hamad, 25, sacrificed herself to save the lives of her four children.
All the children survived but one, a toddler, who is now in the ICU.
Suha took her last breath saving their lives. When the power went out at 11 p.m. Tuesday night, Suha took three of her children to sleep in their grandmother's room.
She thought it was the safest place in the house and went back to get her four-month-old baby.
It was at this moment that she was hit by shrapnel from an Israeli missile.
Mahdi Hamad, Suha's father, said that "nobody called us to evacuate the house and there aren't any resistance members around it."
"Glass was shattered behind the children and men fell into a big pool of blood."
Her eyes full of pain and sorrow, Suha's mother said: "Who do they have to live for when they lost both their mother and father?"
She added: "What crime have these children committed to be punished like that?"
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=711730
King_David
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But still, no answer for the question, Dave?
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"How is it not dehumanizing and genocidal to even suggest this?"
King_David
(14,851 posts)That is all I had to read before dismissing the post out of hand.
It can not be taken seriously.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Maybe explain how suggesting anything, anything at all, is in any way genocidal?
I get the feeling you have no idea what the term genocide means.
King_David
(14,851 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)What a piece of comedy.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I voted to leave.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)PCIntern
(25,550 posts)are hiding behind these women and children?
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