Alrighty then. Google search for "engage definition human shields":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=engage+definition+human+shields
Okie Dokey, I used your handy search page and found these:
"Whilst voluntary human shields do take part in hostilities, they do not do so in an active fashion. It is therefore inappropriate to group them with active combatants."
http://www.wischik.com/marcus/essay/humanshields.html
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"The following exchange took place between Ned Walker, Assistant to the Undersecretary for Middle East Affairs at the U.S. State Department, and the Hon. Lee Hamilton, chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East—under the auspices of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the House of Representatives—on the background of talks between the US and the PLO. The remarks will attest to the problems involved in the use of the concept “terrorism”[3]:
Hamilton: Well, how do you define terrorism, do you define it in terms of non-combatance?
Walker: The State Department definition which is included in the terrorism report annually defines it in terms of politically motivated attacks on non-combatant targets.
Hamilton: So an attack on a military unit in Israel will not be terrorism?
Walker: It does not necessarily mean that it would not have a very major impact on whatever we were proposing to do with the PLO.
Hamilton: I understand that, but it would not be terrorism.
Walker: An attack on a military target. Not according to the definition. Now wait a minute; that is not quite correct. You know, attacks can be made on military targets which clearly are terrorism. It depends on the individual circumstances.
Hamilton: Now wait a minute. I thought that you just gave me the State Department definition.
Walker: Non-combatant is the terminology, not military or civilian.
Hamilton: All right. So any attack on a non-combatant could be terrorism?
Walker: That is right."
http://www.ict.org.il/Articles/define.htm
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"Jessica Montell, B'Tselem - Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: Over the past three years we have seen an increase in violence against both Israelis and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It seems that as part of this intifada, people on both sides are taking the law into their own hands and committing acts of violence against the other community.
From a human rights perspective, we are more concerned with the response of the Israeli authorities, and the responsibility of Israel to enforce the law and to punish people who violate the law. The Israeli authorities are, on the whole, much more lenient toward Jews who break the law - including acts of violence - than they are toward Palestinians.
The intensive investigations, arrests, interrogations, and prosecutions in the case [of the settlers from Bat Ayin], stand in stark contrast to what we see as very lax law enforcement against the routine violence by settlers toward Palestinians."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4277
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Thanks for doing the search for me, Art.
