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Elie Wiesel Condemns Hamas for Using Children as Human Shields, Calls on Gazans to Reject Hamas' Child Sacrifice
(Algemeiner) Joshua Levitt - Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel on Friday published a full-page ad in U.S. newspapers condemning Hamas for using children as human shields. The ad was headlined, "Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. Now it's Hamas' Turn." In my own lifetime, I have seen Jewish children thrown into the fire. And now I have seen Muslim children used as human shields. What we are suffering through today is not a battle of Jew versus Arab or Israeli versus Palestinian. Rather, it is a battle between those who celebrate life and those who champion death. It is a battle of civilization versus barbarism. Before sleepless mothers in both Gaza City and Tel Aviv can rest, before diplomats can begin in earnest the crucial business of rebuilding dialogue, the Hamas death cult must be confronted for what it is. Moderate men and women must shift their criticism from the Israeli soldiers - whose terrible choice is to fire and risk harming human shields, or hold their fire and risk the death of their loved ones - to the terrorists who have taken away all choice from the Palestinian children of Gaza. I call upon the Palestinian people to find true Muslims to represent them, Muslims who would never voluntarily place a child in danger. I call upon President Obama and the leaders of the world to condemn Hamas' use of children as human shields. And I enjoin the American public to stand firmly with the people of Israel who are in yet another struggle for survival, and with the suffering people of Gaza who reject terror and embrace peace.