CNN has reported that Israel’s Mossad headquarters are located in a “densely populated area” in Tel Aviv, posing risks to civilians during Iran’s attack.

“The concern is if your firing, even though Iran might consider that a military target, it is in a densely populated city with civilians around it," CNN reported.

The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

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    I mean this itself isn’t a problem, because who the fuck builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere? But it’s ironic given they keep crying about Hamas headquarters being in residential areas (again, who builds their headquarters in the middle of nowhere).

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    So by Israel’s own standard of discourse, they’re “using human shields” and hence any amount of killing of Israeli civilians is perfectly justified not matter how great the disproportion of civilians to non-civilians killed, their age or gender.

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    Duh, they’ve been doing this since at least 1913 (operation manta ray iirc if you look up 1946 king George bombing, you’ll find it). It’s why everyone in the region uses civilians as shields.

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    The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

    Because that would be devastating to their case.

    The US supports Israel for reasons unrelated to them being truthful or good actors (possibly just mysticism). They try not to openly say that.

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      I mean it’s more because the pentagon, cia, NSA, and most of our secure weapons design facilities are based well within cities because employees in places like area 51 (groom lake) are fairly easy to track given the relatively remote location.

      We do it, they do it, everyone does it both out of immorality and necessity often at the same time.

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    that’s why the US cannot even blink. it will result in the deletion of Israel’s population, including the Palestinians that live there.

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    Because they never thought people would attack it. When it was built, attacks were bombs on busses, not hypersonic missles shot from Iran.

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      As opposed to the Israeli military who hasn’t killed tens of thousands of children.

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        Those children weren’t civilians, they were potential combatants. Whose to say they wouldn’t have grown up to become militants?

        Also observing that Israel murders children is anti-semitic. Haven’t you ever heard of the black legend?

        EDIT: Those children were probably anti-semites who died on purpose so the IDF could be accused of being baby killers.