StupidPol strags shit brix and sneed at kraut parade float

Oh my fricking god this isn't how irregular war works. Hamas has huge support from a population because people want their people to have a military fighting force in the face of something like Israel and they don't expect the fighting force to do something insane like clog up all their military infrastructure with civilians to the point of being completely unusable.

"Human shields" is a fake concept as used. It just means being an irregular force. The IRA, the Viet Cong, Partisans in WW2, they all "hid among civilians" because that's how you fight for your people, its the only thing that works. If George Washington lived in the age of air strikes he'd have been dressing as a civilian and hanging out civilian buildings. This is as legitimate as things get and its a function of how much reason you give people to fight back, not their character, except in so far as it speaks positively of their character to fight.

He says human shields are a fake concept but it seems like he explains the concept pretty clearly in his writing here.

Terrorists hide amongst the population because they lack the ability to fight head on. They are able to hide amongst the population because the more powerful force is generally unwilling to kill civilians en masse in an attempt to eliminate the terrorist. That behavior almost seems like the terrorist is using the civilians as a sort of barrier to protect himself. I'm not sure what we could call that sort of thing. Hopefully a term emerges.