Here is yet another example of the high level of thought we get routinely from Leftists and Islamic supremacists. No wonder they won’t debate. “‘The Young Turks’ Host: Where is Hamas Supposed to Fire From?,” by Daniel Mael, Truth Revolt, August 7, 2014:
Cenk Uygur, a host of the liberal/progressive show The Young Turks, wondered on Twitter where Hamas was supposed to fire their rockets from as if to dismiss the concern:
TownHall Editor and FoxNews contributor Katie Pavlich was quick to highligh Uygur’s idiocy, responding via Twitter:
As Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz highlighted earlier this week, contrary to popular belief, Gaza contains vast expanses of land that the UN and Hamas do not highlight publicly:
There are dense parts of Gaza, especially Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Khan Younis, but there are far less dense areas in Gaza between these cities. Just look at this population density map. Or look at Google Earth. The fact that these sparsely populated areas exist in the Gaza Strip raise several important moral questions: First, why doesn’t the media show the relatively open areas of the Gaza Strip? Why do they only show the densely populated cities? There are several possible reasons. There is no fighting going on in the sparsely populated areas, so showing them would be boring. But that’s precisely the point—to show areas from which Hamas could be firing rockets and building tunnels but has chosen not to. Or perhaps the reason the media doesn’t show these areas is that Hamas won’t let them. That too would be a story worth reporting. Second, why doesn’t Hamas use sparsely populated areas from which to launch its rockets and build its tunnels? Were it to do so, Palestinian civilian casualties would decrease dramatically, but the casualty rate among Hamas terrorists would increase dramatically. That is precisely why Hamas selects the most densely populated areas from which to fire and dig. The difference between Israel and Hamas is that Israel uses its soldiers to protect its civilians, whereas Hamas uses its civilians to protect its terrorists. That is why most of the Israeli casualties have been soldiers and most of Hamas’ casualties have been civilians. The other reason is that Israel builds shelters for its civilians, whereas Hamas builds shelters only for its terrorists, intending that most of the casualties be among its civilian shields.
Uygur then doubled-down on his bizarre remarks, responding to one Twitter user that Israel is firing “indiscriminately”:
According to a report from JNS.org, an international ethics analyst has stated that the IDF fulfilled all ethical requirements in Gaza:
The Israel Defense Forces carried out Operation Protective Edge in compliance with ethical requirements, according to Israel Prize laureate Professor Asa Kasher, who helped formulate the military’s Code of Ethics.
“We are fulfilling the ethical requirements,” he said, according toIsrael Hayom. “Every battalion commander has an officer in charge of locating civilians, and everything is overseen by too many lawyers, who help direct the operation on the ground. The number of casualties is irrelevant—it does not speak of omissions or any wrongdoing on the part of the IDF.”
Kasher said Israel’s operation is facing a torrent of aggressive criticism because “there are people whose perspective is very shallow.”
“[Critics] are shown photographs of a destroyed house and a doll’s severed leg, photographs that are sometimes even from Syria, and they cry out,” he said. “They do not understand anything and they feel the need to express a shallow sort of good-heartedness that has them momentarily identifying with the underdog.”
Anon says
Hamas firing rockets, I mean, wow, talk about “indiscriminate”.
Max Publius says
Here’s Cenk’s “progressive” opinions about women and “liberally” endowed men (you’re not going to believe this idiot!)–
Diane Harvey says
SNL has just found its new replacement thinker for Jack Handey’s Deep Thoughts.
“Of course rockets aren’t supposa be fired at other ppl like the Jews, but then maybe the Jews shouldn’t have earned all those scientific Nobel prizes helping rockets be invented.”
Jack’s famous Clown variant,
“To me, Muslims aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kinda scary. I’ve wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to Medina, and Muhammad killed my dad and all the other adult males in our Jewish Qurayza tribe, and the women and children made slaves of the Muslims.”
Howard Roark says
Cenk is a terrible lawyer. If a gunman takes a hostage and the hostage dies- no matter how, no matter who shoots who- the gunman is guilty of felony murder
mariam rove says
This guy is a d…… Believe it or not I had a run in with him last April on a Delta flight to south of France for TV conference where he was on his way to peddle his PC, BS contents. Mip TV that is. He struck a conversation with me and asked me if I was going to the TV conference and I said yes. He said this is his first time and told me about his content, The Young Turks and I said I know it and I have seen it . He then asked me what I do and I told him and he said if I could help. I told him that I am going to help his liberal PC contents and got pissed and Said: what are you a right winger? I did not say anything and out of the blue he said you probably support that all Muslims and all mosques should be should be watched by law enforcement and I promptly said yes! He then said so you are anti Muslims right? And I said no, I was born and raised one!!!! He promptly shut the ….up!!!!!!!!!!!!!M
gravenimage says
Good for you, mariam! That story is *priceless*.
mariam rove says
Thank you. So you know he is a Muslim of Turkish….m
Charles Johnson says
Not one human in this world is born a Muslim (or Christian or Buddhist for that matter). A child is indoctrinated into whatever the religion by parents to perpetuate the tribal mentality of humans. I agree, you may have been raised a Muslim but you were not born one. A child that is not exposed to and indoctrinated into religion usually grows to be a very well adapted humanist.
Sovereign Man says
Either a humanist, or a morals-free mass murderer, like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. In the modern era, there are no religious mass-murderers in the same league as them. Religion has a use, because it seems a lot of people either do not know right from wrong, or they do and simply don’t care. Morality is the basis for a just society. Personally, I believe that all laws and morality should be based on the Golden Rule as taught by Christ (and others before him).
BenZacharia says
That is the response that I used to post to Chuckles on Little Gross Fatballs.
Sovereign Man says
@BenZacharia You think it’s the same the same Chucky? I figured he was too much of a coward to come on here.
gravenimage says
‘The Young Turks’ Host: Where is Hamas Supposed to Fire From?
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Good God. Sometimes I think I’ve heard it all—then Muslims surprise me again.
Hamas should not be lobbing rockets at Israeli civilians to begin with.
But even given this, the idea that they have to use hospitals, mosques, schools, and playgrounds—where there is the high chance of civilian casualties if Israel tries to take out the rocket launchers—is just absurd.
They could use empty fields, they could use governmental buildings, they could use parking lots.
And, moreover, they *would* use such launch sites if they had the slightest interest in reducing Gazan casualties.
But they don’t—this isn’t incompetence or negligence—this is, instead, their *deliberately* using their own people as human shields in order to make Israel’s defense look as though they are targeting civilians:
“Captured Hamas combat manual explains benefits of human shields”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/captured-hamas-combat-manual-explains-benefits-of-human-shields
Cenk Uygur is never going to admit *this*.
Angemon says
Israel is firing “indiscriminately” into “heavily populated Gaza” and only managed to kill what, 1200 people? How did such lousy shooters managed to win all the wars with the arabs?
mike ryan says
I have been to Gaza (back in the late 80s) and I can attest that it has a lot of open space.
I have watched a couple of this guy’s shows on YouTube. He is a totally ignorant clown. Any Philosophy 1 student in a junior college could poke enough holes in his statements to make it into a sieve.
Brazooka says
The Young Turks, after whom this scumbucket’s posse of liberal jackasses is named, was the genocidal government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The original Young Turks were responsible for the deaths of 2.5 million Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian.
Richie says
I think Robert Spencer’s parents were driven out of that same area- threatened with death if they didnt leave Christianity and embrace islam
William says
“Hamas shouldn’t fire rockets at all, but for people saying they’re firing from heavily populated Gaza, where are they supposed to fire from?”
Using the same reasoning:
Bank robbers shouldn’t rob banks at all, but…where are they supposed to get the money from?
This is the argument of a moral degenerate.
Lisa England says
I always wonder why its called ‘The Young Turks’, because Cenk is a fat, ugly, old Turkish immigrant who has no business even being in America.
Deport this mess.
pumbar says
Maybe we should rename it “The Old Farts”?
Jerry says
If the IDF was intentionally and specifically targeting Gaza civilians, with amount of munitions used to date, the expected civilian toll would have exceeded 250000 by now.
In comparison, the “Allied” in WWII specifically targeted German and Japanese civilians generally, and more specifically, in the fire-bombing of Dresden and the
nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Now they are quick to blame Israel for relatively few civilians killed in Gaza after being used as human shields, or accidentally as collateral damage.
WVinMN says
Using this moron’s own twisted logic, if hamas can ONLY fire rockets from populated areas, that sort of limits the target area of the subsequent retaliatory strikes! Sort of blows the firing rockest “indiscriminately into Gaza and killing 75% civilians” BS response out of the water. Tell you what Cenk. If your pali pals don’t want to be sent to their pedophile-prophet-promised-paradise via Israeli ordinance, than DON’T START WARS YOU CANNOT WIN!
somehistory says
As Hillary said, it’s a small place.
Young Turks commited the Armenian Genocide says
This fat disgusting Turkish creep spews his Islam Apologist venom unchallenged from his podium daily.
What he says here in this video is BEYOND asinine…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTAkiqAqAw
In response to Mike Huckabee’s spot on criticism of Islam, Fat Boy says….
Christians are much worse than radical Muslims, Christians all go out and vote for ‘EVANGICAL REPUBLICANS’ that want to start wars.
This is what passes for legitimate discourse on the PC left!
This fat ugly piece of garbage is an avowed denier of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by his Turkish forebears and the political party he named his show after.
All Jihad Watch readers should hound him mercilessly.
yohannbiimu says
I have always wondered about their “Young Turks” title, since they were homicidal fanatics. People of all political ideologies should denounce these disgusting people, on account of their name alone. It’s no different if people put out a youtube channel called “National Socialist German Workers Party.”
The Vilest Of Creatures says
And these contemptible scumbags actually devoted several shows to the recent controversy over the Washington Redskins logo. They are THAT narcissistic that they can’t even BEGIN to recognize their HYPOCRICY!
Tommy Guns says
The guy is an idiot!!!!! How can you debate with a moron??? It’s not worth any ‘normal’ persons time, it’s too irritating. What a stupid fucking question!!!!