Images of bloodshed obscure truth
“If Israel has learned the lessons of the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas has learned from that war too. Hezbollah was able to use the southern Lebanese population as human shields, and get away with it.
You would think that such a crime would be denounced by humanitarian groups, by the UN and by Western media.
Alas, the strategy has worked for Hamas: it produced the images that screamed from the front pages of newspapers and TV screens, pushingthe buttons of people across theworld.
Emotions cloud the context; the result is a circus. It is mind-boggling that barely any media outlet outside Israel has consistently denounced Hamas for using Palestinian women and children as human shields.
By forgetting the context, voluntarily or not, much of the Western commentators have implied this: it is permissible for terror groups to use civilians as human shields, but not fora legitimate country to mistakenly kill civilians in the course of battling the enemy.”
It's hard to believe that an Australian  community leader could utter such obscene words to defend the killing of civilians, and not be censured by any political party.
For the record, this is the same Albert Dadon that PM Rudd & Deputy PM Gillard have since publicly referred to as their personal friend, with Gillard & Dadon leading the Australia Israel Leadership Group to Israel late in June.  Pewkworthy…..