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  4. See Elad Benari, “Watch: Hamas Spokesman Encourages Using Civilians as Shields,” Artuz Sheva, July 7, 2014, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182729#.U9kmg7Gf-ik (reporting a video of Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri explicitly encouraging Palestinians to adopt the strategy of becoming human shields and lauding its effectiveness and its display of the brave character of Palestinians).

  CHAPTER ELEVEN. OPPOSE, DON’T APPEASE: THE WAY FORWARD AGAINST JIHAD

  1. David French, “First They Came for the Jews,” Patheos, February 7, 2011.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Elliott Abrams, “Yasser Arafat International Airport,” Council on Foreign Relations, August 8, 2014.

  4. Dexter Filkins, “What We Left Behind,” New Yorker, April 28, 2014.

  5. Rosie Gray, “Obama Authorizes Strikes Against Islamic State Fighters in Iraq,” BuzzFeed, August 7, 2014.

  6. Bing West, The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq (New York: Random House, 2009).

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