Weekly Commentary: Eliminating major Gaza targets: We don't need dead
Israelis to justify defending ourselves
Dr. Aaron Lerner 12 August 2018

We don't need dead Israelis to justify defending ourselves.

Human shields protect many of the most important offensive capabilities of
the enemy in the Gaza Strip.

These are targets that must be eliminated for a truly effective operation.

Israeli civilians don't have to pay with their lives to "earn" us the right
to eliminate these targets.

In fact, it is the obligation of the sovereign State of Israel to eliminate
these vital elements of the terrorist's war machine before they are used in
an operation against the Jewish State that would cost countless Israeli
civilian lives.

In December 2016 we released a detailed map of over 10,000 targets in south
Lebanon that provide infrastructure, assistance, cover, protection and other
resources for Hezbollah terrorists.

Today we should put the world on notice with an equally detailed map of
targets in the Gaza Strip that are ostensibly protected by human shields.

We should publicly advise all the relevant international forums as well as
countries that the terrorists have a prescribed time to clear out from those
locations.

And that at the end of the prescribed time the world is on notice that we
intend to defend ourselves in operations against terrorist targets in
accordance with their importance regardless of the presence of human
shields.
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