CNN: "HAMAS...they use Telegenically Dead Palestinians For Their Cause"--Netanyahu

[KoKo]

Glenn Greenwald
(In case you missed the CNN Blitzer Interview.....(I did because I don't watch US/MSM) this is quite interesting what the "PM of ISRAEL" is saying, here.)

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July 22, 2014

Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, on CNN, addressing worldwide sympathy for the civilian victims of Israeli violence in Gaza:

They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.

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Joseph Goebbels, November 16, 1941, essay in Das Reich, addressing Germany sympathy for German Jews forced to wear yellow stars:

" The Jews gradually are having to depend more and more on themselves, and have recently found a new trick. They knew the good-natured German Michael in us, always ready to shed sentimental tears for the injustice done to them. One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is."

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One can say many things about a military operation that results in more than 75 percent of the dead being civilians, many of them children, aimed at a population trapped in a tiny area with no escape. The claim that there is no intent to kill civilians but rather an intent to protect them is most assuredly not among them.

Even stalwart Israel supporter Thomas Friedman has previously acknowledged that Israeli assaults on Lebanon, and possibly in Gaza, are intended ”to inflict substantial property damage and collateral casualties” because “the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain on the civilians” (which, to the extent it exists, is the classic definition of “terrorism”). The most generous claim one can make about what Israel is now doing in Gaza is that it is driven by complete recklessness toward the civilian population it is massacring, a form of intent under centuries of well-settled western law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39183.htm

THE INTERVIEW ON CNN with NETANYAHU is Available for View Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017204176

[truebluegreen]

1. Lucky they have plenty to choose from.

Netanyahu is an asswipe.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Israel is generously providing Hamas with Telegenic bodies.

And, providing entertainment for picnickers watching Palestinians die.

[joshcryer]

3. Huh?

To compare aspects of A and B is not to posit that A and B are identical

citing certain historical examples

Joseph Goebbels is in no fact an "historical example" of what is going on in Gaza right now.

[KoKo]

4. I think it was his assessment of the German Jews

at that time that he is drawing the comparison of. Netenyahu is sounding like a Good German Nazi as he views the Palestinians as vermin to be exterminated....as Goebbles saw the Jews way back then.

[joshcryer]

5. It is not an "historical example."

[KoKo]

6. How not so?

[joshcryer]

7. See post #3.

Last kick you'll get from me. Greenwald fails at basic logic.

[KoKo]

8. I think Glenn is pointing out...

He thinks Netanyahu reminds him of Geobbles..in his interview with CNN..in how Netanyahu views the Palestinians as Geobbles viewed the Jews in Nazi Germany. He thinks Nentanyahu is using the same tactics to persecute the Palestinians as did Geobbles and the Nazi's mentality did the Jews. My read.