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• Tuesday, January 6, 2009 02:10 PM

  Hamas will only do it as long as you reward it

  F chet:

  "... you have to figure out a new strategy to use when your enemy employs them. I, at least, believe it is morally wrong to shoot at a terrorist standing in a crowd of preschoolers, no matter how many people have been killed by said terrorist, or his or her terrorist organization. And besides being morally wrong, it is also stupid."

  They will continue using human shields as long as you and others on the Left continue to reward them for doing so.

  It is not stupid; the Palestinians are not stupid people even though their "supporters" treat them as though they are. Their goal is to get someone to force Israel to give them what they have failed to win for themselves.

  They've recognized that they cannot militarily defeat Israel. They know that Qassam rockets are not going to get the Israelis to withdraw from anything. The goal of Hamas is to get world opinion on their side by flooding the airwaves with dead Palestinian children. So they have to make sure that lots of Palestinian children are killed, and they do that by deliberately putting soldiers and weapons in schools and mosques.

  It's working great! Step 1: Hamas deliberately puts weapons in schools. Step 2: Israelis bomb the weapons caches and innocent children are killed. Step 3: Broadcast lots of footage of dead Palestinians children. Step 4: Have the Left condemn Israel for killing innocent children. Repeat as necessary.

  The Left falls for it every time.

  The power to prevent the killing of Palestinian children is in YOUR hands. If you reward Hamas for the deaths of those children, they will just find make more children hostage and repeat the cycle. YOU can break the cycle, but you have to choose to do so.

  —Amy Tuteur, MD Read Amy Tuteur, MD's other letters
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