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Sam Harris articulating why "using human shields" versus "being deterred by them" tells you "everything you need to know about the moral imbalance between Israel and her enemies." TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that everything you need to know about the moral imbalance between Israel and her enemies can be... understood on the topic of human shields. Who uses human shields? Well, Hamas certainly does. They shoot their rockets from residential neighborhoods, from beside schools, and hospitals, and mosques. Muslims in other recent conflicts, in Iraq and elsewhere, have also used human shields. They have laid their rifles on the shoulders of their own children and shot from behind their bodies. Consider the moral difference between using human shields and being deterred by them. That is the difference we’re talking about. The Israelis and other Western powers are deterred, however imperfectly, by the Muslim use of human shields in these conflicts, as we should be. It is morally abhorrent to kill noncombatants if you can avoid it. It’s certainly abhorrent to shoot through the bodies of children to get at your adversary. But take a moment to reflect on how contemptible this behavior is. And understand how cynical it is. The Muslims are acting on the assumption—the knowledge, in fact—that the infidels with whom they fight, the very people whom their religion does nothing but vilify, will be deterred by their use of Muslim human shields. They consider the Jews the spawn of apes and pigs—and yet they rely on the fact that they don’t want to kill Muslim noncombatants. Now imagine reversing the roles here. Imagine how fatuous—indeed how comical it would be—for the Israelis to attempt to use human shields to deter the Palestinians. Of course, that would be ridiculous. The Palestinians are trying to kill everyone. Killing women and children is part of the plan. Reversing the roles here produces a grotesque Monty Python skit. If you’re going to talk about the conflict in the Middle East, you have to acknowledge this difference. I don’t think there’s any ethical disparity to be found anywhere that is more shocking or consequential than this.show more

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Colin Wrightvor 2 Jahren

While my views diverge with Sam's on issues relating to censorship and the trustworthiness of our institutions, the guy is brilliant and has produced and enormous amount of intellectually stimulating content over the last 2 decades. I've got nothing but respect for him.

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Thomas Vachuskavor 2 Jahren

I miss the old Sam.

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gfodor.idvor 2 Jahren

Sam's pre-TDS positions will always be valuable

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Terri Burtonvor 2 Jahren

Sorry. I can no longer take Sam Harris seriously, even if I agree, in part, with his premise.

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NormieUtahvor 2 Jahren

Sam Harris actually being right about something. 👍

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FrankLeeBrianvor 2 Jahren

'twas ever thus

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𝔽𝕆𝕃𝕃𝕆𝕎𝔼ℝvor 2 Jahren

he used to make good points.

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cityzen bdvor 2 Jahren

What his stance on who steal other people land, because a faiy tale religious book promised that land?

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Krzysztof Wośvor 2 Jahren

I always wonder about this attitude: "The infidels with whom they fight, the very people whom their religion does nothing but vilify." In the Qur'an, Allah pretty explicitly prohibits harming the People of the Book.

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This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians. The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews. And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it. What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants. What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen. There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.

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Flashback: Mahmoud Habbash, the adviser to the Palestinian president, has revealed that Hamas deliberately kills women and children in Gaza in order to damage Israel’s image. They use them as human shields and then sacrifice their bodies as propaganda tools. This is not a secret. This is official Palestinian Authority admission. Time and time again, Hamas starts futile wars against Israel, using women and children in Gaza as human shields to cause their deliberate deaths. Once the bodies pile up, Hamas and its supporters parade the corpses in front of cameras to accuse Israel of “genocide.” The Western media, hungry for dramatic images and hostile to Israel, happily plays along with this grotesque propaganda.

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Why they always love to use their children as human shields. this is only a proof that Hamas is not the only problem here.

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This video is the ultimate proof that there’s no war in the humanitarian zones of Gaza - there’s food, comfortable conditions, and security. The State of Israel sends the residents of Gaza to humanitarian zones to protect them, even though the Hamas terrorist organization is still trying to prevent them from moving to these zones so that they can continue using civilians as human shields. This is proof that Israel is not committing genocide, but rather the exact opposite. Israel is trying to save the residents of Gaza, and the terrorist organization Hamas is exploiting them and endangering their lives!

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NEW Queen Rania of Jordan continues to speak out on Israel and Gaza. In her second interview on CNN since October 7, Queen Rania is even more critical of the Israeli government and anyone who pushes back against a cease fire. Summary of interview: There has to be a collective call for a cease fire. I know there are people who say that calling for a cease fire is helping Hamas, but in that call they are justifying and endorsing the death of thousands of civilians. That is morally reprehensible. It is also short sighted. If you eliminate all of Hamas, what next? The root cause of this conflict is an illegal occupation, routine human rights abuses, illegal settlements, disregard to UN resolutions, and international law. If we do not address these root causes, you can kill the combatant, but you can’t kill the cause. Another group will rise. Another group more determined than Hamas. Israel needs to realize, if it wants its security, the surest route is through peace. Not the strongest military, or the most capable intelligence services, or the iron dome. If we want to make sure that we are never in this situation agin, we have to ask ourselves how we got there. After the Oslo Accords, in 1996 a poll was taken that 80 percent of Palestinians supported the accords and support for violent resistance dropped to 20 percent. If Palestinians had a political horizon, they themselves would be against any form of violence. But they need to be given that prospect. I cannot begin to describe the scale and scope of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis. There’s an acronym in Gaza, WCNSF - wounded child with no surviving family, that is an acronym that should never exist. I think the world is screaming, how many people have to die for our global conscience to awake. Or is it forever dormant when it comes to the Palestinians? After 10,000 people have been killed, for the Israelis to claim they are protecting human life is an insult to our intelligence. There is no safe place in Gaza. Even the so-called safe zones are being hit. I do not believe these evacuation orders are for the benefit of Gaza civilians. They are not the target audience, the rest of the world is. Israel is trying to legitimize its actions. Of course the use of human shields is criminal. But even if one side puts human beings in harms way, that civilian is still protected under international law. I find it really outrageous when Israeli officials audaciously dismiss Palestinian casualties as “human shields.” In the most crowded areas of Gaza, a civilian death is a foregone conclusion and that makes it a war crime. On antisemitism and Islamophobia: I absolutely and wholeheartedly condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia, it’s never ok and never justified to attack someone based on their political beliefs. I also want to remind everyone that Israel does not represent all the Jewish people in the world. Israel is a state and it alone is responsible for its own crimes. Jewish people around the world are appalled by what they’re seeing. Muslims have to be the first to condemn antisemitism. This is not about religion, this is about politics. Antisemitism is being weaponized to shut down criticism of Israel. Let me be very clear, being pro-Palestinian is not being antisemitic.

NEW Queen Rania of Jordan continues to speak out on Israel and Gaza. In her second interview on CNN since October 7, Queen Rania is even more critical of the Israeli government and anyone who pushes back against a cease fire. Summary of interview: There has to be a collective call for a cease fire. I know there are people who say that calling for a cease fire is helping Hamas, but in that call they are justifying and endorsing the death of thousands of civilians. That is morally reprehensible. It is also short sighted. If you eliminate all of Hamas, what next? The root cause of this conflict is an illegal occupation, routine human rights abuses, illegal settlements, disregard to UN resolutions, and international law. If we do not address these root causes, you can kill the combatant, but you can’t kill the cause. Another group will rise. Another group more determined than Hamas. Israel needs to realize, if it wants its security, the surest route is through peace. Not the strongest military, or the most capable intelligence services, or the iron dome. If we want to make sure that we are never in this situation agin, we have to ask ourselves how we got there. After the Oslo Accords, in 1996 a poll was taken that 80 percent of Palestinians supported the accords and support for violent resistance dropped to 20 percent. If Palestinians had a political horizon, they themselves would be against any form of violence. But they need to be given that prospect. I cannot begin to describe the scale and scope of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis. There’s an acronym in Gaza, WCNSF - wounded child with no surviving family, that is an acronym that should never exist. I think the world is screaming, how many people have to die for our global conscience to awake. Or is it forever dormant when it comes to the Palestinians? After 10,000 people have been killed, for the Israelis to claim they are protecting human life is an insult to our intelligence. There is no safe place in Gaza. Even the so-called safe zones are being hit. I do not believe these evacuation orders are for the benefit of Gaza civilians. They are not the target audience, the rest of the world is. Israel is trying to legitimize its actions. Of course the use of human shields is criminal. But even if one side puts human beings in harms way, that civilian is still protected under international law. I find it really outrageous when Israeli officials audaciously dismiss Palestinian casualties as “human shields.” In the most crowded areas of Gaza, a civilian death is a foregone conclusion and that makes it a war crime. On antisemitism and Islamophobia: I absolutely and wholeheartedly condemn antisemitism and Islamophobia, it’s never ok and never justified to attack someone based on their political beliefs. I also want to remind everyone that Israel does not represent all the Jewish people in the world. Israel is a state and it alone is responsible for its own crimes. Jewish people around the world are appalled by what they’re seeing. Muslims have to be the first to condemn antisemitism. This is not about religion, this is about politics. Antisemitism is being weaponized to shut down criticism of Israel. Let me be very clear, being pro-Palestinian is not being antisemitic.

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So tell me, why does the West insist on being more Islamist than actual Muslims? How can you even consider giving statehood to this type of Palestinian mindset, poisoned by racist, antisemitic media and education in Gaza and the West Bank? Unless that changes, you're just setting the stage for another October 7. Like it or not, some of the innocent women and children in Hamas-controlled Gaza dream not just of wiping out Israel, but of wiping out every Jew. If you don’t change that mindset, you can’t give them a state. Yes, Hamas uses schools and hospitals as human shields. Yes, they groom toddlers in kindergartens to become future terrorists. And yes, they use mosques in the UK and Belgium as recruitment hubs for ISIS and Hamas. And the West? It still refuses to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, whose armed wing is Hamas...even though the group is banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and much of the Arab world. Again...tell me, why does the West insist on being more Islamist than actual Muslims?

So tell me, why does the West insist on being more Islamist than actual Muslims? How can you even consider giving statehood to this type of Palestinian mindset, poisoned by racist, antisemitic media and education in Gaza and the West Bank? Unless that changes, you're just setting the stage for another October 7. Like it or not, some of the innocent women and children in Hamas-controlled Gaza dream not just of wiping out Israel, but of wiping out every Jew. If you don’t change that mindset, you can’t give them a state. Yes, Hamas uses schools and hospitals as human shields. Yes, they groom toddlers in kindergartens to become future terrorists. And yes, they use mosques in the UK and Belgium as recruitment hubs for ISIS and Hamas. And the West? It still refuses to ban the Muslim Brotherhood, whose armed wing is Hamas...even though the group is banned in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and much of the Arab world. Again...tell me, why does the West insist on being more Islamist than actual Muslims?

Amjad Taha أمجد طه

331,328 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

The absolute cowardice of this cannibalistic regime is on full display for the entire world to see. Right now, the senior commanders of the Islamic Republic and their families are cowering in deep underground bunkers. But what are they asking of their followers? They are literally begging them to become human shields. State TV has just called for people to form human chains around our power plants tomorrow to cry to the world about war crimes. They are demanding that bodies be used to protect the very infrastructure they stole from us. Look at the undeniable contrast. President Trump willingly sacrificed millions of dollars in military equipment just to ensure not a single American pilot was lost in the southwest. That is the fundamental difference between a true leader who actually values human life, and a terrorist occupation that feeds on it. The mullahs are perfectly willing to let their own supporters burn to ashes as long as they get to survive another day in the dark.

The absolute cowardice of this cannibalistic regime is on full display for the entire world to see. Right now, the senior commanders of the Islamic Republic and their families are cowering in deep underground bunkers. But what are they asking of their followers? They are literally begging them to become human shields. State TV has just called for people to form human chains around our power plants tomorrow to cry to the world about war crimes. They are demanding that bodies be used to protect the very infrastructure they stole from us. Look at the undeniable contrast. President Trump willingly sacrificed millions of dollars in military equipment just to ensure not a single American pilot was lost in the southwest. That is the fundamental difference between a true leader who actually values human life, and a terrorist occupation that feeds on it. The mullahs are perfectly willing to let their own supporters burn to ashes as long as they get to survive another day in the dark.

Decado

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 WOW: Zelensky says that people should stay as human shields in cities. If people will be evacuated from the Ukranian cities, Russia can strike anywhere … he says. He wants women and children to stay as human shields. -> This is insane, he is losing it

🇺🇦🇷🇺 WOW: Zelensky says that people should stay as human shields in cities. If people will be evacuated from the Ukranian cities, Russia can strike anywhere … he says. He wants women and children to stay as human shields. -> This is insane, he is losing it

Lord Bebo

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Hamas is actively stopping the evacuation of civilians to safety in the south, because they want to use them as human shields. As told on CNN International

Hamas is actively stopping the evacuation of civilians to safety in the south, because they want to use them as human shields. As told on CNN International

Jonathan Conricus

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For any who may still doubt that Hamas has a strategy of using human shields, here is the Hamas spokesman on state TV encouraging Palestinians to act as human shields against IDF strikes.

For any who may still doubt that Hamas has a strategy of using human shields, here is the Hamas spokesman on state TV encouraging Palestinians to act as human shields against IDF strikes.

Captain Allen

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