US and other "human shields" volunteering to protect hizbulla in Lebanon

[Grimmy]

volunteers to act as "human shields" to protect hizbulla


ue Aug 8, 10:50 AM

By Lin Noueihed

BEIRUT (Reuters) - International and local activists are planning on Saturday to bring a civilian convoy to southern Lebanon, worst hit by Israel's 28-day-old war on Hizbollah, to deliver aid and show solidarity with suffering residents.

"We hope this will be the first of what will become continuous convoys to show that there are civilians being killed and affected by this war," Adam Shapiro, an American documentary filmmaker and human rights activist, told Reuters.

"If governments are failing to act, we as citizens will."

Shapiro, 34, is among several activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian group that usually works to bring attention to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, who have traveled to Lebanon seeking non-violent ways to support local groups protesting the war.

This time, however, the activists will not be facing Israeli soldiers, tanks or bulldozers but aerial bombardment.

One idea they are considering is to bring large numbers of people, rather than a few activists, to the Hizbollah strongholds of south Lebanon or south Beirut to try to protect them or draw attention to the plight of civilians there.

So far, activists who have shown up in Lebanon from the United States and Europe are part of an exploratory group, but Shapiro believes they can attract hundreds more, including from Arab states, once they come up with a strategy.

"In the United States people were already contacting us, Lebanese and internationals interested in coming to Lebanon to see how we could help," Shapiro said. (full story at link posted above.)



Anyone going into a war zone/battlefield with the intention of attempting to disrupt targeting by interposing themselves are legitimate targets themselves.

These are NOT anti-war, no matter what they claim. They are anti-west and anti-democracy. If they were actually anti-war they'd work against both sides of a fight, instead they work only against the side standing against the islamofascists. They are enemy, plain and simple. Enemy. And they should all be treated as such.

[Panzerman]

Heh, they're gonna find out the hard way that a JDAM doesn't give a fuck who's standing around or what their intentions are.

[AmericanGirl]

wouldnt just putting a bullet in your head be a faster and easier way to commit suicide? I wonder what people are thinking sometimes, have they even considered that walking into the line of fire is the fastest way to end up dead?

[Grimmy]

The objective is to cause harm either real or propaganda to the US and any of her allies while operating under the false flag of "peace activist".

[USMCRET6391]

look at it this way. Be a good way to range in and get a good sight picture, when they knock them all down getting the asshats behind them will be a lot easier

[SGRock]

at least they will be standing still so you don't have to lead them so much.

[Grimmy]

Their side appears to have won this round.

It might be interesting for some of the more bookishly inclined to search back through the historical record and find any culture or society that managed to survive while permitting a significant portion of their population to openly engaged in collaboration and direct support of the enemy of that culture or society.