Israeli court bans the use of Human Shields

[Lord Kelvin]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/06/israel.shields.ap/index.html

Apparently the Israeli Army has been using Palestinians as "human shields" for the last three years or so. The reasoning for doing this is somewhat understandable, but still wrong IMO. But then again, most of that happened before Arafat died.

[Krispy Joe]

A step in the right direction, IMO.

[StandingCow]

A step in the right direction, IMO.

haha, I was going to say the same thing...

[kreket]

With these close situations, that might work. Unlike how it did for the nazis in an open battlefield in the Narvik campaign. It seems to have been much more numerous incidents where they shoot someone as a hostage in revenge of allied attacks.

That also sums up my lecture on values, too.

[Lord Kelvin]

The argument that the Israeli army uses doesn't hold much air. Even though only one person died in these incidents, several more were wounded, and it doesn't account for the psychological trauma it causes. Not to mention, it doesn't even say how many of these instances resulted in success.

[kreket]

Erm.. I meant to compare who else had used it. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that comment about how it would work in closer situations.