{"id":233,"date":"2006-11-21T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2006-11-21T02:45:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:45:06","slug":"human-shields-exposed-rights-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/233\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Shields Exposed, Rights Violated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=181\" target=\"_blank\">written before<\/a>\u00a0about the bizarre situations which pass for reality in Middle Eastern affairs which concern Israel.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6164666.stm\" target=\"_blank\">An article<\/a> from the BBC does little to dispel my view that visitors to the region must be forced to abandon all logic and common sense at customs when they enter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Large numbers of Palestinians have converged on a home in Gaza belonging to a senior member of the ruling Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows reports the Israeli air force was about to attack it, but there has been no confirmation of this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing unusual about this:\u00a0using civilians as human shields has been a weapon in the\u00a0Palestinians&#8217;\u00a0armoury for years.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights\u00a0who was\u00a0visiting a\u00a0different town in Gaza, had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The violations of human rights in the Palestinian territories are intolerable.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s clear that civilians are tremendously exposed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes.\u00a0 They are tremendously exposed.\u00a0 But perhaps civilians in the Palestinian territories could reduce this exposure somewhat by not deliberately gathering around the target of a proposed airstrike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before\u00a0about the bizarre situations which pass for reality in Middle Eastern affairs which concern Israel.\u00a0 An article from the BBC does little to dispel my view that visitors to the region must be forced to abandon all logic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/233\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}