tom1942 wrote:
Tom1942 wrote:
I for one disagree with the prime minster on cease fires. Hamas and their ilk have proven time and time again that there is true evil and it exists. Forget about culture. There is none in the Muslim world; that's why non-secular Muslims like blowing up their past; it reminds them of a civilization they can never achieve. What I cannot understand is Bebe's sudden enthusiasm for the Palestinians. I guess comparing the two, the Palestinians are slightly better. I still however have not forgotten the Palestinian betrayal of Kuwait when Iraq invaded back in 91.
Nor have the Kuwaitis forgotten how the Palestinians betrayed them; Palestinians invited by Kuwait to work and earn money to send back home to their families in Gaza and the West bank. This reminds me that whenever I reach a point in the conversation when I start using the word "moderate" in front of Muslims I need to caution myself that no such Muslim exists---at least none willing to condemn the barbarity of their brethren upon risk of being branded "apostates"---which carries a death sentence. If people today truly understood the threat confronting the world today, the combined nations of the world would mobilize an army the likes never before seen to eradicate this pestilence. Then again, I probably live in a dream world---or nightmare.
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It was an open secret among foreign reporters that Hamas used the Gaza Strips main hospital as its command center, reported Yedioth Aharonot, Israels largest daily newspaper.
The paper, citing numerous foreign reporters, said journalists reporting from Gaza did not tell their audiences of Hamas use of the Al-Shifa hospital because they feared retaliation from Hamas. The newspaper further documented the climate of fear that Hamas instilled in Gaza-based reporters.
The day the conflict started last month, WND became the first and, until now, virtually the only news media outlet to report top Hamas leaders used the Al-Shifa hospital as its command center.
Now, a foreign reporter has told Yedioth it is an open secret that Hamas uses Al-Shifa hospital as its command center, but reporters in Gaza would not report that out of fear that it would endanger them.
Yedioth quoted another journalist, Palestinian reporter Radjaa Abu Dagga, who said Hamas summoned him to answer for some of his reporting, accusing him of working for an Israeli newspaper.
Dagga said the interrogation by Hamas took place at the Al-Shifa hospital. He said Hamas took his passport and threatened him, forcing the removal of an article published in the French newspaper Libération.
Other reporters explained to Yedioth that Hamas spokesmen only agreed to be interviewed in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital. This was done likely for safety reasons, with the patients serving as human shields. It also created the impression that only civilians were wounded in Israeli attacks, since civilians were streaming into the hospital for treatment.
Indeed, according to the foreign reporters, Hamas imposed a total news media blackout on any reporting of wounded or dead Hamas fighters, once again trying to convey to the world that only civilians were harmed by Israeli strikes.
A Spanish reporter told Yedioth: We saw the Hamas men. But had we dared point the cameras at them, they would have opened fire at us and killed us.
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http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/hamas-used-main-hospital-as-command-center/#Pt2uh0DGVB4fdiqx.99