CNN has reported that Israel’s Mossad headquarters are located in a “densely populated area” in Tel Aviv, posing risks to civilians during Iran’s attack.
“The concern is if your firing, even though Iran might consider that a military target, it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it," CNN reported.
The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as "human shields", as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.
I mean this itself isn't a problem, because who the fuck builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere? But it's ironic given they keep crying about Hamas headquarters being in residential areas (again, who builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere).
So by Israel's own standard of discourse, they're "using human shields" and hence any amount of killing of Israeli civilians is perfectly justified not matter how great the disproportion of civilians to non-civilians killed, their age or gender.
The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.
Because that would be devastating to their case.
The US supports Israel for reasons unrelated to them being truthful or good actors (possibly just mysticism). They try not to openly say that.
I mean it's more because the pentagon, cia, NSA, and most of our secure weapons design facilities are based well within cities because employees in places like area 51 (groom lake) are fairly easy to track given the relatively remote location.
We do it, they do it, everyone does it both out of immorality and necessity often at the same time.
It's not even just security. People live in cities, so things tend to be built near cities.
The argument Hamas being anywhere in Gaza counts as using human shields was fully bullshit. In their case, they operate(d) mostly as guerillas, so they didn't have conventional military bases to build in any place in particular, anyway.
Duh, they've been doing this since at least 1913 (operation manta ray iirc if you look up 1946 king George bombing, you'll find it). It's why everyone in the region uses civilians as shields.
Totally unheard of! Bombing cities?! Don't they know innocent people live there? Like putting "strategic targets" in densely population centers? It's like Isreal is using its people as human shields. Israeli people should leave those areas if they don't want to be caught up in the fighting.