+ 972 reported on this same basic Zionist policy/strategy in 2011. The objective is massive stress on Palestinian civilian populations and infrastructure as a means to terrorize them, alienate them from al Qasam/Hamas, with the end goal to pressure the latter into acquiescence or capitulation. The ZE recognizes that it cannot possibly defeat or eradicate Hamas militias by direct military targeting in the dense urban warscape. The 2011 piece argues that the Zionists did not view maximizing civil casualties as a goal in itself, or even as an effective tactic, but rather maximizing civilian distress and inducing forced relocation. The current genocide in Gaza, however, is qualitatively different. Thanks to US support, the Jews intend to kill as many “noncombatants” as possible and employ maximum terror. This, the Jew think, serves both to turn the population against Hamas (which is foolish thinking) and to kill and dislocate the people of Gaza (at which the Jew is succeeding). From the Jew perspective, it is perfectly logical to think of the population as “human shields,” but with the intentional and utterly false implication that the Jew would somehow refrain or ameliorate the massiveness and brutality of its military assault IF Hamas did not “use” the population as “human shields.” It is the Jew that both perceives and uses the populations as “human” shields, and not the resistance forces.