Israel's Savage Attacks on Empty Buildings Foiled

Earlier I documented how the leaders of Israel from Chelm had settled on a policy of retaliating against terror through attacks on empty buildings and empty fields as well as by making loud noises. Thus the evening news could show domestic audiences explosions to give the appearance that the country was being defended while avoiding international condemnation.

Apparently the Palestinians have found the flaw in this tactic. After Israel provides notice that a terrorist leader's home is about to be destroyed, "human shields" rush in:

Palestinian Human Shields Save Home of Terrorist Leader in Gaza

Hundreds of Palestinians Saturday evening prevented the IDF from blowing up the house of Mohammed al-Baroud, a senior commander in the Salah a-Din Brigades, the military arm of the Popular Resistance Committees. Sources in the Gaza Strip said that after al-Baroud received a phone call from the IDF warning him to leave the house because it was about to be bombed, hundreds of Palestinian civilians gathered around the house, stood in the yard and on the roof, in order to prevent the attack.

The protest was broadcast live by Palestinian television, and the crowds chanted, "Death to America and death to Israel." Later an Israeli military spokesman confirmed that "the attack plan was cancelled because of the people there."

As was the case in Jenin, Israeli soldiers will now die to protect what the morally blind IDF Spokesman called "innocent civilians." As this story describes, ground forces will now be required to attempt to shoot around the omnipresent "human shields" when air force pinpoint strikes were previously used:

Ground Forces to Fight Human Shields

Concerned that Palestinians will create human shields around every terror target in the Gaza Strip, a high-ranking officer said Sunday that the IDF was prepared to launch ground raids into Palestinian territory to demolish buildings that could not be destroyed in airstrikes. The officer said that the IDF would continue to phone Palestinians before bombing the homes of known terrorists, but might change the amount of time it gave the Palestinians to evacuate the area.