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Palestinians Are Being Used as Human Shields — By ISRAEL

Why Zionists need to condemn Hamas for allegedly doing what the Israeli Defense Forces have been practicing for decades.

Joe Brunoli
12 min readAug 19, 2024
An Israeli soldier uses a blindfolded Palestinian boy as a human shield in Gaza during “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014. [Source: Al Jazeera | Photo: Video screengrab]

Ever since Israel launched their genocidal attacks on Gaza last year, we have been bombarded by Israeli propaganda, what the Zionists call “hasbara”, which is to say lies and distortions designed to achieve two basic results:

First, the Israeli propaganda narrative must make the Israeli Defense Forces look like the “most moral army in the world”, and the Israeli government and its people must be portrayed as democratic crusaders, fighting on the front lines against barbarism.

Secondly, the Zionist hasbara narrative must depict the Palestinians to be subhuman, cruel, and entirely without morals, ethics, or even simple human compassion; they must show Hamas to be bloodthirsty barbarians bent on world conquest and the destruction of not just Israel, but all of Western civilisation.

The Zionist “human shield hasbara” narrative

The entire subject of human shields is much broader and more comprehensive — and more powerful — than just the simple story of a despicable battlefield tactic. The human shield narrative is a…

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Joe Brunoli
Joe Brunoli

Written by Joe Brunoli

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