Peres: Unlike Hamas, Israel protects its children

HW: "You`ll just keep urging Palestinians to attack Israel, and then keep demonizing Israel for winning those battles." You insist on calling Cast Lead a "battle", HW? That, more than anything, explains why everyone *but* the zionists understands that Cast Lead was a crime. The IDF blasted the civilian popln of Gaza like it was shooting fish in a barrel, and you think that everyone is complaining because the IDF "won" that "battle". No, HW, everyone is complaining because attacking civilians isn't "a battle", but "a crime". It's "a crime" when Hamas do it. It's "a crime" when the IDF does it. Goldstone understands that. You, sad to say, are clueless.

Hamas are mass murderers who murder children wholesale. This is a well known fact and why there is no chance of peace as long as this terrorist organization is allowed to exist.

Israel has always done more for the welfare of Arab children than the Arabs themselves. Children for Islamic extremist are mere tools and pieces of meat to use for their own power hungry gains.

Nice flood of anti-Israel hate responses above. All of you who pretend to care about the Palestinains and scream that Israel kills them: If you actually cared, go convince the insane Palestinians to stop attacking Israel and declare peace with it. You won't do that, though. You'll just keep urging Palestinians to attack Israel, and then keep demonizing Israel for winning those battles.

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We, Israelis, want to apologize to the world. We want to apologize for valuing human life above all. We want to apologize for caring for our children and putting them out of harm's way. We would like to apologize for having civil defense force that organizes and protects the civilians infrastructures. We would like to apologize for investing billions in protecting our civilians. We would like to apologize for investing hundreds of millions in shelters in Sderot and vicinity, for inventing a unique radar and warning system that gives Sderot residents 10 seconds to seek shelter. And finally, we are not going to apologize for Hamas occupation of Gaza and its actions that represent the opposite of what we believe in.

Unlike Israel it has no heavy artillery, tanks and airforce. It lacks the arms to protect it's children. Which is fine with me, but guts Mr. Peres's flatulent argument.

They don't have TANKS to protect theirs the same way.

of course mothers dont send their children nor fathers they re forced to do it by hamas! reasonable people dont put their children in front of the gunmans or dont let em throw stones to armed people. lets just se israel in ur point of view as a kill machine lovin to kill livin by killin.. would u send ur children to throw stones to these killing machines? or would u go attack them with ur family?

over 1,400 dead mostly women and children attest to his statement, killed at the behest of his children loving government. Then there are those dead children and their mothers Israesl knew would be blown up when the bombed the apartment bloc in Gaza to get shehadeh. Operation Cast Lead had as its motto: ten of yours for every one of ours. Israel means women and children in that number.

Palestinian and Israeli. No difference. If you want to differentiate between these two children, then leave.

Peres's statement was shown to be false in the Goldstone report, even if you ignored the sections on human shields, and Cast Lead. It is shown false in the section that it seems many can't find, the section dealing with the rocket fire, and its affects. After a few pages of describing the phychological horror of being subjected to attack, there is one paragraph (1679 in the preliminary draft) that points out that in contrast to the extensive measures for Sderot, non-Jewish Israelis have little to no protection from those rockets. (they also account for 10% of the casualties). Now, if Peres had qualified that statement...(otherwise the differential spending on education etc. also comes into play)

leaving the Israeli children at the whims of Netanyahu/Liberman right wing government. He calls this protection?

What's insane is that Israeli mothers and fathers are sending their children out to kill Palestinian children in Palestinian neighborhoods, schools, ambulances, and communities, towns, villages, and cities, using helicopter gunships, tanks, and rockets. After all, the Palestinians are dying in their own cities. What type of insane Israeli parent sends his or her children out to another person's community to go kill the children of the inhabitants of that community??? Israeli apologists really have selective logic and run off whining when anybody challenges them!!!] Th reality is that Israeli settlers are the ones endangering their own kids (with full government siupport and subsidies, when they drag thse kids off to so-called settlements (which are really squatter camps), in the West Bank which they call a "war zone". Too bad for Israel that the truth of its rampages against Palestinian children is now being seen by the whole world for what it is - a naked land grab.

With all due respect for the president of Israel, I don't think that these statements can be accepted. Is Mr. Peres trying to portray the parents of Palestinian children as not loving their offspring? Is there a difference between a Jewish and a Palestinian mother as far as their children are concerned? Only if you qualify the Palestinians as subhuman (what was the word?: 'Untermenschen') does this statement ring a bell.

Give Hamas F16s and Apaches helicopters and guided missiles and see how they will protect their children like zionists do

Hamas offers up Pal children like fleas in order to get politcal advantage. Israel has to & will continue to defend itself, its citizens & its children. Israel does, to the extent possible, & its not very possible, avoid harming children or civilians on the Pal side, but it will not & should not sacrifice its citizens, adult or children, in order to protect the civilians of the very people who seek to harm Israelies. Hamas has the power to protect its citizens by not putting them on the front line & using them as shields. Peres's point is simple. Israel will do what it can to protect its children & Hamas does what it can to put Pal children in harms way. This, in part, is based on Hamas's world view, which is that Pal children who sacrifice their limbs and lives are doing the right thing. You three may agree with that but that view is unadultered evil and delusionary. Its too bad the entire Hamas movement can't be put on an island which is dedicated to the mentally ill.

unlike hamas Israel has a neighbourhood full of enemies who prays everyday for the destruction of the country. so bringing nuke is a way to prevent it and that is a way to protect the children. everyone has to take care of its own children u cant blame others if u dont wanna protect ur own children!

powerful in the Middle East into one of the most crowded places on Plane Earth where a major portion of the population are under the age of 18. You then blame the Palestinian people when their children were slaughtered by an army using the most modern weapons known to man, by troops with orders to shoot first ask questioins later. Not even the rules of war protected the children, they were gunned down even though they flew white flags. So how was HAMAS supposed to protect them again? armed as they were with a few bottle rockets and rocks. Peres is indicative of the Israeli ruling elite at the moment. They have gone crazy, Lieberman even wanted to nuke Gaza. Yep Israel loves children alright, unless they are not Jewish.

Hamas uses children and women to higher the death of women or children and blame it on israel. there is a big difference between can and do peres didnt say hamas cant protect the children he said hamas dont protect the children it means they can by not putting quassam launchers on kindergardens and homes or using hospitals or schools as arms depot! they use children to throw rocks molotof cocktail, pregnant women as suicide bombers! they have the capability of preventing this! hamas who made kilometers long tunnels can do a separate arms depot or a headquarter. and put arms in or basicly hide it in tunnels or underground depots. put quassam launchers in inhabitated or emptied houses or at the outside of a city in a field(gaza is not only a city it has farms empty fields etc) instead coward hamas hides behind the citizens! use em in their death rate propaganda war machine. israelis never send a pregnant women or a children to attack an hamas headquarters!

Unlike Iraqis, Americans protected their children. Unlike Armenians, Turks protected their children. Unlike Albanians, Serbs protected their children. Unlike native Americans and Africans, Europeons protected their children. PERES IS OLD.

because they don't have anti-aircraft missiles

Mr. President is obviously gone mad. The Palestinians now are like the jews in 1945 who could not protect their children simply because they didn't have the means to do so. The fire power Israel unleashed on Gaza spared no one. Please do not blame the victims Mr. Peres. Of all people, you should know, having ordered the shelling sent that killed dozens of children in the UN compound in Lebanon. Even the UN couldn't protect them.

...and traded with South Africa when even the US had abandoned them. ...and bombed Qanaa in 1996 Peres, well, he friggin loves children.

The Goldstone Report will help bring those responsible to justice.

...it is true no matter how disgusting the lie. But actions speak louder than words and if Israel really wanted to protect its children they would seek peace and not constant war. Every step Israel takes ensures that every new generation is in increasing danger. And Peres we aren't fooled by the lie of human shields in Gaza when it is Israel who first trapped whole families and then slaughtered men, women and children alike. Israel attacked families in their homes when they had no where to run. Israel has trapped 800,000 Gazan children in a cage and then tries to tell the world that if they are killed in that cage they are human shields.

Why exactly would any one use kids as human shields if the enemy ignore the kids and bomb the hospital anyway? If Peres says the reason for the high casualty rate is because of the use of human shields he is also saying that the IDF don't care if there are kids there and they carry on with their carpet bombing.

If children have been used as human shields, such a serious matter deserves to be grounded in specific time and place - names, if possible - and sources of information. The brainwashing that Israeli children receive from kindergarten age on as to the merits of the Israeli soldier and the glory of defending their country against Arab enemies is highly detrimental to protecting Israeli children. Children everywhere need adults to tell them the truth about the world. Hamas is a political party, Israel, a country - neither want harm to come to their children. Take it from there!

Richard Goldstone may consider himself a Zionist, but his naive, self-righteous radicalism helps nobody.

to send the most modern army in the Middle East in to one of the mose crowded places on Planet Earth, where the majority are children. Was not a factor when the dust settled and depending on what figures you trust between 300 and 400 children laid dead? It is very easy to blame the dead Mr Peres, but we saw what Israel did to the children of Gaza with our own eyes. Blaming the Palestinians for Israeli fire which killed their children is a deliberate ploy used by Israelis to justify their actions, and before the invention of the internet that used to work. The fact is Israeli rules of engagement allow soldiers of the video age who are competing with their mates to beat their high score to shoot children. I have news for you Mr Peres, Israelis are going to turn up at the Hague and have Radovan Karadzic as a neighbour. What your country did was no different to what he did at Sebrenica, why should you be treated differently?

Israel can only protect Israeli children by killing Palestinian children. This is the truth. Who can protect Palestinian children when Israel throws bombs at them and shells their homes? If Palestinians are as armed as Israelis then many Israeli children would be killed, and let us see if Israel can really protect its children as Peres claims.

This is really affecting Israel's right to bomb schools and hospitals. I have suspected for sometime now that the Pals have been using their kids as human shields by pretending to educate them and sending them to school.

Kids murdered by Zionist were mostly either in their homes, or in UNRWA schools, both bombed by the Military of the claimed to be Jewish State. How can so cheap individuals have NOBEL PEACE Prize. It is so shameful.

Is this the first step in absolving the IDF of any wrong doing? Israel initiating a probe of it's military actions in Gaza is laughable. Of course their probe will be "fair and free of any bias".

If he had, he would have seen that the issue of human shields is discussed in great detail, with Goldstone finding no evidence of use of human shields by Hamas, and considerable evidence of Israeli use of human shields. This is also a bizarre allegation from the president of a country that builds civilian settlements on occupied land in order to conquer territory, effectively enlisting civilians in a campaign of territorial conquest.

Fact: Kibbutz Cabri sits on the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian village of Al-Kabri. See http://www.alnakba.org/villages/acre/alkabri.htm Challenge: If Palestinians hide behind their children, then Peres should have no problem of showing us a video of such incidents. After all, everything in battle is video taped - especially from the inside of tanks and armored carriers. Finally, one only has to read Haaretz to see how Jewish children are abused, on a daily basis, by their teachers, rabbis, family, etc. Have you ever heard about Palestinian fathers shooting to kill, or drown, their own children?

"We know we how to give security to our children, defend the children, not use them as human shields and not send them out in front of us." Goldstone found not the slightest evidence that Hamas used ANYONE as human shields during Cast Lead. Mind you, Goldstone found evidence that the IDF used Palestinians as human shields during that conflict.....

We all know that the Palestinians indoctrinate their children from birth. We have seen the babies dressed as suicide bombers at the rallies, the school books that glorify suicide etc.. Sadly the "culture of death" mentality that permeates Palestinian society is the primary reason for the children dying. Couple this with Hamas using using civilian areas to launch attacks, to store weapons(in schools, Mosques, Hospitals and Homes), using residential homes or apartments as bomb making factories and retreating into residential neighborhoods after an attack and the outcome is predictable. What is bizarre, why you would Israel for the outcome? What is still stranger, that anyone would believe it! We all grieve...and lose... when a innocent child is killed but put the blame where it deserves to be, the person or group that put their children in harms way.

How pathatich is this guy turning to be didnt the Isareli forces use the palestinians children as human shields!!!1 it was recorded many times

the settlers you hold so dear do exactly the same thing!

It's hard to protect your children when you drop a two ton bomb and spray an entire village with phosphorous gas.

Israel has not ordered a mandatory evacuation of children from cities threatened by Qassams. It must be the secret hope of mny Israelis that a Qassam one day kills an Israeli child in these cities in order that they can then freely bomb Gaza without fear of international criticism. Puny warning devices and "anti-missile" systems dfo nothing to answer this threat. Until all those threatened children are forced to evacuate, Israel will continue to use them as human shields.