Video: The obligatory “IDF gives Hamas a lesson in human shields” clip

posted at 6:03 pm on January 15, 2009 by Allahpundit

Via the Jawas. There’s no way it’s real. Nothing this awesome could be.

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Heh…

BL@KBIRD on January 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM

Quick thinking…got to admire that.

coldwarrior on January 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM

Just the other day, the “Arab street” was complaining that “the Jews have gone crazy.”

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM

This is the original story.

And here is the video in high res.

Aristotle on January 15, 2009 at 6:09 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

It is possible to be right near a grenade and only get stunned if you have something to absorb the force. When we looked at bunkers that you can build during basic training, there were blast holes on both ends that were barely 3 feet deep and were supposed to save your life, so this IDF officer may be real in his heroics.

rob verdi on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

The accidental suicide bomber. I like it.

fogw on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

This isn’t a bad copy either:

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/01/literal-human-shield.html

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Israeli version of John McClane?

Dreadnought223 on January 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM

An oldie but goodie clip.

danking70 on January 15, 2009 at 6:13 PM

With the guts and body flying everywhere, it is a repeat of MIB just no aliens!

clover_dave on January 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

alphie

Les in NC on January 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM

Made my day.

Spirit of 1776 on January 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM

Note: YOu can clearly see at the video that the narrator is wrong – the Terrorist didn’t throw the grenade, he was preparing to throw it when the officer noticed it and made the incredibly fast sprint, grabbed him, made him drop the grenade and then turned him over to shield himself from the blast.

Aristotle on January 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM

What’s amazing is the range at which this all takes place- it looks like they’re all of ten yards away from each other. Good thing the Hamasholes can’t shoot worth a damn. Or cookoff a grenade.

Amazing presence of mind for the Israeli soldier to be able to react so fast. Kind of like laying on a grenade to save your buddy, except volunteering the enemy to jump on it instead.

Hollowpoint on January 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM

Those jew boys don’t f*@^ around!
AWSOME!

crazy texas on January 15, 2009 at 6:19 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

Hard to say, though that Mike D dude is a total jerkweed.

Oh wait.

Mike D. on January 15, 2009 at 6:20 PM

And here is the full story by IDF spokesman

Aristotle on January 15, 2009 at 6:20 PM

I see a Wii video game on the horizon………….

……… with thermal imaging.

Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM

With the guts and body flying everywhere, it is a repeat of MIB just no aliens!

clover_dave on January 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM

No guts , no glory.

the_nile on January 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM

Good to see. Priceless!

HotAirJosef on January 15, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Does the terrorist still get his 72 Virgils?

thomasaur on January 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM

alphie
Les in NC on January 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM

Alphie is the human shield in the clip.

Pick another.

Bishop on January 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM

Correction: the IDF soldier used the terrorist as a SUB-human shield.

stonemeister on January 15, 2009 at 6:28 PM

There’s no way it’s real. Nothing this awesome could be.

Search you feelings, you know it to be true.

Seriously – look at your iPhone: Did you ever think that anything could be that awesome?

juanito on January 15, 2009 at 6:28 PM

IT’S ZOHAN!!!

noodle on January 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM

The Israeli Defense Forces are some of the best in the world, if not the best.

SC.Charlie on January 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM

IT’S ZOHAN!!!

Don’t forget it’s THE ZOHAN !!!
You miss the “THE” and he’ll kick yer arse.

On Topic: This was awesome. Very very action movie-y.

mjk on January 15, 2009 at 6:34 PM

Captain Nitai Okashi

“When the gunman pulled the pin out of the grenade, I understood that it was either him or me. I turned him around so that the shrapnel form the grenade would hit him,” captain Okashi reconstructed the defining moments. “What went through my mind? I didn’t think about whether I would die at that moment, I thought about my soldiers. I felt that I my finger was hit, but I did not think about feeling self-pity, I put what my commanders taught me into action- I refused to give up.”

Here that? You refuse to give up.

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM

Some needs to buy that guy a beer! Pronto!

TheSitRep on January 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM

Alphie is the human shield in the clip.

Pick another.

Bishop on January 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM

FYI-your posts are making me look like an idiot at work. People wonder why I laugh for no apparrent reason.

Les in NC on January 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM

We can only hope that IDF brings this lesson on how to correctly handle human shields to all of hamas.

the_nile on January 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM

Here = Hear

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:39 PM

That was the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.

AbaddonsReign on January 15, 2009 at 6:39 PM

Here = Hear
Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:39 PM

It’s ok, their there.

Bishop on January 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM

Here that? You refuse to give up.

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM

I will not yield.

Johan Klaus on January 15, 2009 at 6:47 PM

The IDF.

For when you want to show terrorists that Allah is dead.

MadisonConservative on January 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

I would use TheRaceCard….the one that posts the comments first, not the one that responds to those comments.

TheRaceCard that responds to TheRaceCard’s comments is funny as heck!

JadeNYU on January 15, 2009 at 6:58 PM

JadeNYU on January 15, 2009 at 6:58 PM

Don’t know if it was clear from my post but I was just goofing on TRC’s double personalities.

I happen to like him as a poster (don’t always agree though) and would certainly not use him as my human shield.

I’d use Noneya though.

JadeNYU on January 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM

One Question; how do you run that fast with balls that big?

BuckNutty on January 15, 2009 at 7:05 PM

pwned!

KillerKane on January 15, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Tango down.

Multibucket on January 15, 2009 at 7:10 PM

That gets my vote for best conservative movie in the last 25 years!

beththebaker on January 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

The recently banned SaintOlaf.

Hilts on January 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM

There is a God…

and He is Just!

singlemalt_18 on January 15, 2009 at 7:26 PM

Holy, did you see those guts fly?
Awesome.

Geronimo on January 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM

Does the terrorist still get his 72 [Virgins]?

thomasaur on January 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM

Yes, one for each little piece of him.

72 Virgils?

Did you mean to write that?

Tzetzes on January 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

The one who asked that question. If the first thing on your mind is using one of us, you have to be first to go.

MadisonConservative on January 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM

Swee-heet.

Seeing as how Hamas loves death, I figure they gotta be lovin’ this. More, please.

Splashman on January 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM

The recently banned SaintOlaf.

Hilts on January 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM

Did he get banned? I was starting to warm up to him a bit, after he converted to Orthodoxy. (Not that he entirely put his old bible-thumping ways aside, but he was getting better.)

Tzetzes on January 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM

Don’t mess with mother bears, mothers-in-law, and motherfreakin’ Israelis!

Sekhmet on January 15, 2009 at 7:40 PM

I see a Wii video game on the horizon………….

……… with thermal imaging.

Seven Percent Solution on January 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM

It’s already been done and it’s called “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” for the Xbox 360, PS3, Mac, and PC. Unfortunately, the Wii just isn’t powerful enough for that amount of sheer awesomeness.

ScottMcC on January 15, 2009 at 7:43 PM

Did he get banned? I was starting to warm up to him a bit, after he converted to Orthodoxy.

Yep, the AP and the EdM banned him after he kept posting crap on Israeli blog articles.

For example: on this one, he’d probably write about how Israelis stone Christians when they are praying and preaching in Israel, then about a law in Israel banning conversions to Christianity, then about how Israel stole Palestinian land and how the Israelis should just give up the land and walk away because they are terrible people.

Anywho, he was amusing, but repetitive.

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Can I use someone here who I think is smarter than me as a human shield against these alleged grenades? Because then I chose all of you!!! And what a glorious shield o’ people I’d have!!!

mjk on January 15, 2009 at 7:43 PM

This makes no sense. Why would anyone run toward a man with a grenade? Wasn’t the soldier already safe from the grenade BEFORE he run TO it? And why use a body to shield one from a blast when blasts have a tendency to go through bodies especially blasts that could have been avoided altogether by staying away? And finally, considering the soldier had a gun, why use his feet to traverse the distance between him and the hamas dude when he could have let his bullets do the walking. Isn’t that that the advantage to firearms – to kill somebody at arm’s length so you don’t actually have to run over to them to do it?

keep the change on January 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM

There are rules in this world .You don,t spit into the wind,you don,t pull on supermans cape and you damm sure don,t throw a grenade at the IDF.

thmcbb on January 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM

This makes no sense. Why would anyone run toward a man with a grenade? Wasn’t the soldier already safe from the grenade BEFORE he run TO it?
keep the change on January 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM

Umm… huh?

How was he safe from the grendade? He was out in the open and very close; a grenade can cause severe injury or death up to 30 yards away.

As to shooting him- unlike the movies, unless someone is shot in the head, they don’t immediately fall over dead. Once the pin is pulled that grenade is going to go off whether the man who threw it has since died or not.

He managed to kill the terrorist while also protecting himself from the grenade; how there could be a better outcome I don’t know.

Hollowpoint on January 15, 2009 at 8:04 PM

Wow that made my entire week. =)

Summer on January 15, 2009 at 8:07 PM

Who is the person who moves toward the grenade after the IDF guy who ran over and grabbed the grenade thrower. A coupled seconds after he grabs the guy, someone else is moving in the same general direction–right into the explosion of the grenade. Who is that second guy?

smellthecoffee on January 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM

Orin Hatch likes that guy’s balls.

BadgerHawk on January 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM

smellthecoffee on January 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM

The second guy is the other IDF agent. From the proximity it looks like he should have been hurt, but I guess he got lucky.

And for keepthechange, the terrorist never actually got to throw the second grenade. He was pulling the pin, and I suppose the IDF agent didn’t have a clear shot so he rushed him. The terrorist ended up dropping the grenade in the process, which is why it was so close to them when it detonated. I was wondering the same thing myself when I first saw the video.

BadgerHawk on January 15, 2009 at 8:12 PM

Maybe there was something in the way IDF #1 “arranged” the terrorist that he absorbed most of the grenage. Maybe he lifted him up and dropped him on top of it?

smellthecoffee on January 15, 2009 at 8:15 PM

There was a strikingly similar story in Iraq, wish I could find the clip…

desertdweller on January 15, 2009 at 8:16 PM

This makes no sense. Why would anyone run toward a man with a grenade? Wasn’t the soldier already safe from the grenade BEFORE he run TO it? And why use a body to shield one from a blast when blasts have a tendency to go through bodies especially blasts that could have been avoided altogether by staying away? And finally, considering the soldier had a gun, why use his feet to traverse the distance between him and the hamas dude when he could have let his bullets do the walking. Isn’t that that the advantage to firearms – to kill somebody at arm’s length so you don’t actually have to run over to them to do it?

keep the change on January 15, 2009 at 7:46 PM

Imagine the situation. You are 10 feet away from a guy who has a grenade in his hand and is about to pull the pin out and throw it at you.

Do you have a time to point your weapon and shoot enough rounds to stop him before he throws the grenade? No. You can eather run aside and fall to the ground (that’s what standard military training says you should so) or you do the wild stunt this officer did – making him NOT throw the grenade because you are too close, and if he pulls the pin out before you can get to him – use him as a shield.

Also, nobody gets killed by the grenade’s BLAST. Grenades kill using FRAGMENTS, which is why they are called fragmentation grenades. This is why taking any kind of cover will protect you more than just being away from the blast, while being exposed to grenade fragments.

Aristotle on January 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM

I think there’s a 2007 date on the bottom of the clip…

desertdweller on January 15, 2009 at 8:25 PM

I have no doubt that Israel will have a long future with men like that as possible future leaders.

AND WE HAVE OBAMA

Helloyawl on January 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM

If it’s real… awesome!
If it’s not… awesome story!

Too bad there wasn’t a part with “the soldier then stuffs bacon into the terrorist’s mouth” before he used him as armor.

krl on January 15, 2009 at 8:33 PM

The one who asked that question. If the first thing on your mind is using one of us, you have to be first to go.

MadisonConservative on January 15, 2009 at 7:33 PM

Unfortunately for you, I’ll get you first.

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 8:36 PM

From the officer’s statement, I think the IDF trains for this type of scenario.

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 8:38 PM

Awesome AWESOMENESS!

Wanna play grenades, Mahmoud? HERE YA GO!!!

The only clip that comes close is that one of US snipers in Afghanistan. That was awesome, too. But this was AWESOME!

wccawa on January 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM

Patrick McGoohan died. Bwah!!!!

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM

The recently banned SaintOlaf.

Hilts on January 15, 2009 at 7:17 PM

Did he get banned? I was starting to warm up to him a bit, after he converted to Orthodoxy. (Not that he entirely put his old bible-thumping ways aside, but he was getting better.)

Tzetzes on January 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM

yes. The other day he started sounding like a combination of Pat Buchanan/Charley Reese/Joseph Sobran spawn at an Institute for Historical Review (a Holocaust denying outfit) meeting.

Hilts on January 15, 2009 at 8:51 PM

I’m sorry my eyes just don’t see what is being narrated, but awesome story.

Blind as a bat

deedtrader on January 15, 2009 at 8:57 PM

Now if only we could train Conservative politicians to do that to members of the MSM when they start slinging their bias around.

Dreadnought223 on January 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM

I like the way this turned out.

DL13 on January 15, 2009 at 9:07 PM

Ouch! He’s going to need all 70 virgins just to find all his parts!

ronsfi on January 15, 2009 at 9:12 PM

That’s pretty wicked stuff right there.

Hog Wild on January 15, 2009 at 9:22 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

Blake on January 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM

benny

ex-Democrat on January 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Seems like a helluva lot to go through for 72 Vegans.

Pilgrimsarbour on January 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM

Alphie is the human shield in the clip.

Pick another.

Bishop on January 15, 2009 at 6:27 PM

LMAO. This is too easy – Benny Shakar.

Jaibones on January 15, 2009 at 11:04 PM

ex-Democrat on January 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Heh. Beat me.

Jaibones on January 15, 2009 at 11:05 PM

OMG, now those evil Jews are using innocent civilian-terrorists as human shields! This calls for another unanimous UN resolution against Israel for the use of illegal and inhumane tactics that go against the Geneva Conventions of politically correct warfare. :D Rock on IDF!

A great little article linked from Atlas Shrugs:

Why we choose us

When rockets fall on Israeli towns, the press doesn’t run over to describe the carnage in loving detail or splatter photographs of gore across the evening news. The International Red Cross makes no condemnations, the UN has nothing to say, and the usual suspects who cry out against war crimes when we defend ourselves– are silent as stones.

That is why we choose us. Because no one else will. The lesson we have learned is that if we do not care for our children, no one else will. If we do not protect them, no one else will lift a hand to do it for us.

The grandfathers and fathers of the “People of Gaza” twice invaded us together with the armies of several Arab nations to wipe us off the face of the earth. They failed. Today their children are trying to help Iran finish the job they started. The world once again chooses them. The world wails over their suffering. The world demands that we let our children die, so that theirs may live to kills us. We refuse. We choose us.

It is the right of every nation to defend itself against enemies at home and abroad. That right of self-defense will not be abridged because the left has decided that Israel has less right to exist than an Iranian backed theocracy that just brought back crucifixion. When Al Queda attacked America, the left chose the Taliban. When Hamas bombed Israel, the left chose Hamas. So be it. We are under no obligation to bow our heads to the moral judgment of the ideological grandchildren of Marx, Lenin and Noam Chomsky. To hell with them and to hell with all their progeny. We choose us….

read the rest at this blog.

thinkagain on January 15, 2009 at 11:07 PM

So, if someone threw a grenade at you, which HotAir commenter would you pick up and use as a human shield?

EASY…that Noneya freak.

hamer500 on January 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM

I’ll remember that move next time somebody throws a grenade at me. Hmff.

Nice job commander, and yes the video looks real to my former military eyes.

Mojave Mark on January 15, 2009 at 11:14 PM

thinkagain on January 15, 2009 at 11:07 PM

PS-thanks for posting Allahpundit-definitely an awesome clip.

thinkagain on January 15, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Seems like a helluva lot to go through for 72 Vegans.

Pilgrimsarbour on January 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM

The new martyrs are greeted by a welcoming committee, comprised of George Washington, then Jefferson, then Madison, Monroe, Patrick Henry, George Mason, et. al. Each one gets a good punch or kick at the new martyr, until he cries, “Oh holy one!! Why is this happening?” Thunder rolls, and a voice rings out, “I promised you 72 Virginians. What did you think I said?”

smellthecoffee on January 16, 2009 at 12:37 AM