Why do terrorist groups like Hezbollah always hide among innocent civilians, who always seem to pay...?

Question

...for their outrages? The terrorists fire a few missiles or guns, then run away and let the civilians, most of whom are too afraid to run away, get killed. Is this manly? Is this how the brave Muslim fighters show how courageous they are? Why don't these cowards come out and fight like men? We see how brave they are when they force innocent people to act as shields. I say they should wear dresses and hoods if they want to act like women!

Answer 1

THIS PROVES THAT THEY DO NOT VALUE HUMAN LIFE AND THAT NEGOTIATING WITH THEM WOULD BE FRUITLESS.

Answer 2

They do it to use it as a propaganda tool.They fire from civilian areas and then disappear,and when the other side fires back and hits the area where the terrorist's fired from,the result is civilians get killed and the ones who fired the salvo at the terrorist's get blamed for killing innocent civilians.Just look at the backlash the Israelis were and are taking for this.Plus I agree that any fighting force that hides among civilians and then fires from amongst those civilians are cowards.

Answer 3

Because

Just because they are in a group and they arm them selves, does not mean that they are an army. They might call them selves that but they are not. There is not necessarily a set up way per se as compared to the Marines or the Army.

Another reason could be that they are acting in the name of the "community" which would mean that they are part of the community. If you attack the community the community will fight back... not necessarily an army (think gang-warfare).

Then again they are giving them selves the "excuse" of jihad, which is misconstrued by the clerics and they believe them (a cleric is supposed to be a learned man with knowledge not bull crap in his head). Clerics sometimes abuse the power that they hold over the people they are supposed to serve (and I think that's across the board true).

So to answer your question, because.... they don't have to come out and fight in your terms "like a man". They are fighting on their terms.

Answer 4

Fianally, someone knows what terrorists really do. You are exactly right. They are afraid to fight stronger forces than them, like Israel and the US. They know they can't win the war. Their just hiding to make the war last longer and make it look like their enduring. Hezbollah hides in civilians' houses to hide and that is why so many civilians are dying. Many people are to stupid to see that. The funny thing is civilians are still supporting Hezbollah. I believe part of it could be they are intiminated by Hezbollah and Hezbollah TV has brainwashed them with their blasphmous propoganda. The propoganda is really working. I once saw a kid with a bandana and a machine gun in a Hezbollah parade yelling "Death to Israel!" "Death to Israel!" and another kid holding a fake missle and standing straight, without moving in a Hezbollah parade, like he was a Swiss Guardsmen or something.

Answer 5

You said it yourself. They are cowards. Basically the Fundamental Muslim world does not live by the same code of ethics as the civilized world.
Happened in 2003. The Iraqis would hide in the Mosques, knowing that the Americans would be reluctant to bomb them.
Happened again in Lebanon. There is TV footage of rockets being fired at Israeli cities from between apartment buildings occupied by Lebanese civilians.

Answer 6

I don't believe they are cowards. I do believe them to be very cold and calculating in an effort to gain sympathy and public support. When Hezbollah fighters are killed they claim civilians have been killed. When real civilians who are forced to stay are killed they claim civilians have been killed. This is all an effort to vilify Israel to the Western Nations and to build solidarity among the Islamic Fascist.

Answer 7

Because it's a win-win situation. They hide behind human shields and one of two things happens.

1. They don't get killed because Israel isn't a bunch of randomly murdering thugs and wants to keep collateral damage to a minimum.

2. They get killed and then their brothers crow about how Israel is targeting civilians. The French lead the world in condemning the attacks and blaming Israel for the acts of terrorists.

Answer 8

Coward and Terrorist mean the same thing. They don't fight man to man because they get their a**es kicked. So they have to hide and then scuttle away among the civilian population. Arab heroism lol.

Answer 9

Because they are cowards & have studied us & know that we try to keep civilians out of the fray, & that we don't attack civilians.

They can't fight like men, they have no morals, & are not warriors.
They are not women either, don't put us down!
They are sub human animals who have no honor to use innocent civilians as sheilds.

Answer 10

Hezbollah is not an organized Army and they do not have enough trained soldiers to fight an organized Army like Israel. Also, Syria and Iran are engaged in a proxy war against Israel and they are using Hezbollah as their front to fight guerrilla warfare and all guerrilla wars are fought in this way.

Answer 11

All terrorists are cowards....and think that by killing civilians and hiding behind them so the enemies must kill them to will make the world put so much pressure on the country they attack, that they will win......If they put on uniforms, they would be annihilated in short time.....though cowards, they are not stupid....except to think they would get virgins dying in the name of Allah...