The Battle of Al Shifa Hospital – WSJ

The story, and the scandal, wasn t that the U.S. struck the terrorists where they hid, but that terrorists had used the hospital for cover in the first place. In Mosul Battle, ISIS Used Hospital Base was the Human Rights Watch headline; it explained that armed forces or groups should not occupy medical facilities, undermining their protected status.

Today in Gaza, Hamas terrorists use the same war-crime tactics. Only now observers rush to apologize for it. See the front page of the Human Rights Watch website: Unlawful Israeli Hospital Strikes Worsen Health Crisis. For 4,500 words, the group acts as Hamas s defense attorney, contesting Israel s claims and dismissing evidence.

Much of the Western press would also have readers conclude that Israel has organized its counteroffensive to converge in a pincer on Gaza s Al Shifa Hospital for no reason other than that it houses sick patients.

The real story, as Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has documented, makes a great deal more sense. Hamas has used the hospital at least since 2006, when a PBS documentary showed terrorists roaming its halls and cordoning off wings. Even Human Rights Watch admitted in 2007 that Hamas had fired at Fatah, its Palestinian rival, from within the hospital.

via www.wsj.com

I’m considering putting a Star of David on my car to show my support of Israel. I know. It’s not much. I already have a Ukraine sticker there. I’m creeping towards one of those people whose car is like the CV of their political opinions, which I hate. Also, people might see the faded UC Berkeley sticker there (I’m a 2x Cal dad) and think I’m a Democrat.