Israeli army appeals for human shields

The Israeli Supreme court recently ruled against the Israeli army's use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. The army is now, according to al-Jazeera, appealing against this ruling.

The Israeli High Court issued a ruling earlier this week barring the army from using Palestinian civilians as human shields, a practice used heavily in the West Bank, particularly since the outbreak of the Palestinian intifada or uprising in 2000.

On Tuesday, Israeli military sources said the army would press the High Court to reconsider the ruling on the ground that it would complicate "army activities" in the West Bank.

Apparently the human shield policy is for the Palestinians' own good.

The army has sought to downplay the gravity of the "human shield practice", describing it as a "generally innocuous early warning procedure"....

The occupation army has further argued that the practice actually saves (Jewish) lives and that banning it entirely would inflict more casualties on the Palestinians themselves as the army would be forced to bombard and destroy entire buildings where "wanted persons" are barricaded.

See how al-Jazeera has had to insert the "Jewish" in brackets before the "lives." To the Israeli army, lives are a Jewish thing. The saving of Palestinian "lives" comes in as an afterthought and a bogus one at that.