abu_rashid wrote on Jan 11
th, 2009 at 9:32pm:
[quote]No, the kid seems to be standing in front of the rocket firer, with his legs apart so the guy can fire the rocket through them
Quote:That's a possibility, although we don't know the angle of the picture accurately eenough to tell.
The kid could also just be having a light hearted joke and be 'leap-frogging' over the barrel of the gun (Even Palestinians like to have a little fun every now and then, contrary to your view of them as savage barbaians).
He seems to be stationary. And he couldnt be leapfrogging onto the top of the Hamas guy.
Quote:No, perhaps putting the kids behind him might be a good idea.
Quote:The picture captures a nano-second (or less) of what actually happened. How do we know he didn't just arrive and then proceeded to get them out of the line of fire?
Because they dont do that.
Quote:Look at the reluctance of the kid to move - the Hamas guys are taking him against his will. Why is that?
Quote:Palestinian kids are brave, we all know that. One just has to see them flinging rocks at armed storm troopers or armoured tanks, to know this. So maybe he didn't wanna be held back from his enemy... Who knows? We don't.
Yes he was bravely wanting to keep resisting, when his Hamas operative would not let him.
Quote:The kid doesnt want to be out of the line of fire?
You assume a lot. It's about a 1.5 second clip, yet you seem to know the intentions of all involved.. How perceptive you are. I
Quote:The fourth video, where a Hamas guy says 'We excel at being human shields etc' that is made up too?
Quote:I didn't see that. Even if he did, he said "we" not "they" so that just disproves your point. Hamas see themselves as the shields, not the non-Hamas civilians. Either way, every single person in Gaza is a human shield and potentially collateral damage, this says more about the lack of morality of the Zionists and about the densely populated nature of the strip than it does about the bravery and courage of Hamas.
It's right above - here is the transcript:
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields
Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Hamas MP Fathi Hammad, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008.
Fathi Hammad: [The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking.
For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land.
The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children.
This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life."