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United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch: Israel Is Targeting CIVILIANS In Gaza
Preface - related news from this week:
Update: Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the U.S. for help in avoiding war crime charges.
Amnesty International just released a report stating:
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
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“Even more alarming is the mounting evidence that the Israeli army has targeted health facilities or professionals. Such attacks are absolutely prohibited by international law and would amount to war crimes. They only add to the already compelling argument that the situation should be referred to the International Criminal Court.”
Human Rights Watch released a report this week headlined, “Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians“, stating:
Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that on July 25, a Red Crescent volunteer [the equivalent of the Red Cross] was mortally wounded in an Israeli attack in Khuza’a, and other volunteers who tried to rescue him were fired on. Under the laws of war, medical workers are civilians who may not be targeted for attack.
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Human Rights Watch investigated several incidents between July 23 and 25 when, local residents said, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians trying to flee Khuza’a, but no Palestinian fighters were present at the time and no firefights were taking place.
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“The horrors of war are bad enough for civilians even when all sides abide by the law,” [Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa director] said. “But it’s abhorrent that Israeli forces are making matters even worse by so blatantly violating the laws of war designed to spare civilians.”
Last month, Human Rights Watch documented that the types of weapons used by the Israeli military prove that the killing of civilians was intentional.
Human Rights Watch executive director (and former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York) Kenneth Roth – said:
It was the subject of fairly relentless bombardment. Finally, after a couple of days, on July 23rd through July 25th, families slowly tried to leave Khuza’a for their larger city of Khan Younis nearby, hoping to find refuge there. And as you would do in a situation like this, they raised white flags. They did everything they could to make clear that they were not militants. But on several different occasions, Israeli forces shot at them and actually killed some among the people who were fleeing.
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No matter how many times the Israeli military spokesmen scream, “Human shields! Human shields!” most of the people being killed in Gaza are being killed because Israel is paying insufficient care to saving civilian lives. There’s been case after case in which Israel has used the wrong weaponry or has shot at people with many civilians around. And these, in our view, are war crimes.
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The only real recourse that we see is to the International Criminal Court.
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[The Israeli soldiers] use, for example—The New York Times did an interesting study yesterday—heavy artillery, 155-millimeter artillery, which is utterly inappropriate in a densely populated area, because this kind of artillery is considered accurate if it lands anyplace within a 50-meter radius. You know, you can imagine there are a lot of civilians in that area. It has a fragmentation and blast effect of 300 meters. And nonetheless, Israel lets off barrages of these heavy artilleries. The New York Times documented that yesterday. Or they’ll bring in their air force and simply bomb, even though there are many, many civilians in these areas.
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We’ve gone through this in the prior Gaza efforts. We went through it with the Hezbollah war. I actually, you know, after the Hezbollah war, went and briefed the senior Israeli lawyer for the military, describing many of these same problems, the fact that you can’t just issue a warning and assume that everybody left, in that case, is Hezbollah. So, you know, they are completely on notice. We’ve accused them of this in the past. They just keep repeating it. And it seems to be almost by design to try to make the people of Gaza pay a price because Hamas is ruling over them…. I mean, that’s a war crime logic, and Israel is oftentimes acting according to the same logic in Gaza.
The UN stated last month that Israeli attacks on UN shelters housing civilians are intentional.
An Israeli soldier explicitly confirmed:
Palestinian civilians killed during the Shuja’iyya massacre of July 20 were deliberately targeted ….
The unofficial reason was to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers on the Palestinian refugees in the neighborhood. Under the pretext of the so-called ‘security threat,’ soldiers were directed to carry out a pre-planned attack of revenge on Palestinian civilians.”
The United Nations reported in 2009 that Israel was intentionally targeting civilians in Gaza.
Wikipedia summarizes the findings of the 2009 UN report:
The report disputes Israel’s claim that the Gaza war would have been conducted as a response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, saying that at least in part the war was targeted against the “people of Gaza as a whole”. Intimidation against the population was seen as an aim of the war.[70] The report also says that Israel’s military assault on Gaza was designed to “humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability”.[49]
The report focused on 36 cases that it said constituted a representative sample. In 11 of these episodes, it said the Israeli military carried out direct attacks against civilians, including some in which civilians were shot “while they were trying to leave their homes to walk to a safer place, waving white flags”.[49] Talking to Bill Moyers Journal, Goldstone said that the committee chose 36 incidents that represented the highest death toll, where there seemed to be little or no military justification for what happened.[71] According to the report, another alleged war crime committed by IDF include “wanton” destruction of food production, water and sewerage facilities; the report also asserts that some attacks, which were supposedly aimed to kill small number of combatants amidst significant numbers of civilians, were disproportionate.[49]
The report concluded that Israel violated the Fourth Geneva Convention by targeting civilians, which it labeled “a grave breach”.[72] It also claimed that the violations were “systematic and deliberate“, which placed the blame in the first place on those who designed, planned, ordered and oversaw the operations.[73]
And a prominent Jewish leader says that Israel intentionally massacred Palestinian civilians in 1948 in order to terrorize the population … and is still doing the same thing today.
Postscript: There is plenty of circumstantial evidence for targeting of civilians as well, in the form of calls for genocide and mass murder against Palestinians.
For example, the Times of Israel recently published a piece calling for genocide on the Palestinians.
And Andrew Sullivan notes:
What is one to make of the fact that the deputy speaker of the Knesset has called for ethnic cleansing in Gaza?
He’s not an obscure blogger for the Times of Israel. He is a luminary of the Likud – a man who got 23 percent of the vote in a contest for the Likud Party leadership. He was appointed to his current high position by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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His strategic goal is to “turn Gaza into Jaffa, a flourishing Israeli city with a minimum number of hostile civilians.” (Modern Jaffa, of course, was built on the ethnic cleansing of most of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948.)
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In Israel, this theme is intensifying:
The statements of Ovadia Yosef, whose recent passing was met with flattering memorials both in Israel and the US, are legendary. The former Chief Rabbi of Israel and spiritual leader of many Middle Eastern Jews, said, among other things, that Palestinians “should perish from the world” and that “it is forbidden to be merciful to them”; of non-Jews in general, he declared that “Goyim were born only to serve us.” Despite comments like these, his funeral last October was the largest in the country’s history, with 800,000 Israelis attending. In the past month, Rabbi Noam Perel, head of Bnei Akiva, the largest Jewish religious youth group in the world, called for the mass-murder of Palestinians and for their foreskins to be scalped and brought back as trophies, alluding to an episode in the Book of Samuel; and a Jerusalem city councillor, in charge of security, encouraged a crowd to mimic the Biblical character of Phineas (Pinchas in Hebrew), who murdered a fellow Israelite and his Midianite lover for the “crime” of miscegenation…
One local chief rabbi ruled that bombing Palestinian civilians is permissible, while another, considered a “liberal” by Israeli standards, declared the assault on Gaza to be a holy war mandated by the Torah–one which must be merciless.
Today, the former head of Israel’s National Security Council, Giora Eiland, called for treating all Gazans, including women, as enemy combatants:
We are seeing now that despite the IDF’s impressive fighting, despite the absolute military supremacy, we are in a sort of “strategic tie.” What would have been the right thing to do? We should have declared war against the state of Gaza (rather than against the Hamas organization), and in a war as in a war.
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And we are not merely talking about a hypothetical situation. The grotesque death toll from Gaza is a distillation of this mindset – revealing at best a chilling contempt for Arab life and at worst, with the shelling of schools and shelters, a policy of indiscriminate hatred and revenge. Yes, killing women and children in shelters is about as low as you can get in wartime. As the State Department, in a rare moment of public candor, noted, it is appalling and disgraceful.
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the anti-semites might want to skip the following since it doesn't align with their hatred of all things Joos
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"Those three boys... saved the nation."
That's how Isaac Herzog, the leader of the opposition in Israel's Knesset, remembered the tragic kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teenaged boys a couple of months ago.
Had they not been kidnapped, hastily murdered and sloppily buried, and their graves quickly discovered by Israel, unmitigated disaster could even now be lurking in Israel's future.
You see, Hamas was planning a daring invasion of Israel on Rosh Hoshanna. On September 24, the eve of the Jewish New Year, they intended to flood southern Israel with thousands of Hamas fighters. These heavily armed invaders were to enter Israel through dozens of tunnels under cover of darkness. As day dawned and shops and schools filled up in the Israeli towns and villages just outside the Gaza Strip, all hell would break loose.
First, massive explosives already in place under Israeli kindergartens and schools would be detonated. Amid the mass hysteria and chaos, the Hamas fighters would strike, killing as many innocent civilians and children as possible.
Then, before the IDF could respond, they would retreat through the tunnels back into Gaza, taking with them maybe hundreds of hostages that would be held for ransom and leverage.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the discovery of this Hamas plan with his cabinet, he noted that the number of Israeli casualties could well have surpassed the 2,200 who died in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
Other experts and analysts believe the death toll would have exceeded 10,000 Israelis.
But because those three boys were kidnapped, then hastily murdered once their kidnappers realized one of them had been able to telephone the police, the Hamas invasion plan was revealed.
This brutal tragedy sparked "Operation Protective Edge," the IDF entry into Gaza to stop the rocket barrages and punish Hamas for the murders. That's when Israel discovered the full extent of the vast network of tunnels that Hamas has been able to construct beneath Gaza over the last several years.
Israeli television news reports have suggested that there are as many as 5,000 tunnels crisscrossing the Gaza Strip. They enable Hamas forces to move with impunity almost anywhere they wish. They store their arsenals and house their command centers there.
The Israelis call it "the city under the city."
The IDF also discovered as many as 40 highly fortified tunnels that open in multiple places inside Israel. It is through those "terror tunnels" that Hamas intended to invade Israel in September.
The horrible, brutal deaths of those three young boys, one of them an American, may truly have saved Israel. Some have suggested that the entire incident, which allowed the Hamas plan to be discovered, is a miracle.
the Nazis shot V1 rockets at British human shields. they also directed countless human shields to the gas chambers. the US firebombed human shields in Dresden and nuked human shields at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. the nofly zone over Iraq killed thousands of human shields. Obama directs drone strikes against tiny human shields from 20000 feet in the air with pinpoint accuracy. (it seems once you are a shield you are no longer human) if Gandhi were to lead a group in peaceful resistance through the streets of Gaza these human shields would be attacked and destroyed by the same Israeli government the British helped create. there is no level of passive resistance that removes that shield from your tender and vulnerable flesh so they might render it back to dust. we sprayed defoliant on human shields in Vietnam, (many of them were our own troops, being a human shield does not afford you any special consideration). JFK was a human shield. Bobby Kennedy. you may give up your humanity but the shield is yours to keep. you can stand up to the tyranny of your own government, but the only thing the other side will see is your shield. you can call for peace, but your shield says war.
While I support the state of Israel, I don't see any reason to support their actions.
by underwriting their war crimes and genocide you deny their right to exist
That's it. Let us know how you really feel.
Support the state meaning exactly what? (Hint: you can edit and keep it right ^ there) Briefly. I'm curious.
Of course! Everyone knows if you don't bulldoze your children at 9am sharp & give your land to Israel, you're a raving ant-semite.
Hey GW, welcome here yourself you Jew hating prick.
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HistoryStanding up for civilians right not to be mass murdered is not Jew-hate.
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I notice you don't dispute the facts though - was I not supposed to notice, cunt?
What's it like to have no compassion for people of a different ethnic or religious group? What is it like to have a morality which treats the 'other' as less than human, and cheatable, and what is it like to have absolutely no concept of "the truth" as that-which-is-the-case apart from your 'interpretation' of the world?
yes, my little Washington sock puppet, please do tell us,
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Iraqi official says 100s of Yazidi women held captive by Islamic State group militantshttp://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2014/08/08/iraq-official-milit...
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GW the Nazi Jew hater at work again.
LOL
you fucking idiot, you did make me laugh.
That's all you got, right, shit for brains?
http://antiwar.com/blog/2014/02/06/the-truth-about-cease-fire-violations...
iamrefreshed up-votes himself... lol... I guess it keeps him from getting a goose egg.
i can't believe you're quoting the UN, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch there goes your credibility. there's been clear documented video and other evidence of people setting up temporary tents right next to schools and hotels, assembling rocket launchers, shooting them off and disassembling them and moving on.
"ISIS Leader a Jew? Conspiracy Theory Claims al-Baghdadi is Mossad Agent Born to Jewish Parents"
Lopping the heads from X-ian children....
ROTFL!...well that didn't take long.
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai (al-Baghdadi) was likely born in Samarra, Iraq. Which as fate would have it (for conspiracy theory nutters everywhere) would have been completely devoid of any Jews at the time of his birth (71).
Latest estimates for Iraqi-Jews living in Iraq are less than a hundred, mostly around Baghdad, not Samarra which is in the so-called Sunni Triangle.
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Two (so far) don't like the truth?
Just your usual whack a mole hating Israel strategy. Israel started Hamas, Israel started ISIS, Israel started hell, Israel forces Cowboys to start Tony Romo, get it?
^Just your usual whack-a-mole defending Israel no-matter-what strategy.
how much do they pay you, anyway, Frosty?
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Hasbara_-_overview
Absolving the Jews was quick. LOL
Moslems killing Jewish civilians.....good.
Jews killing Moslems civilians....bad.
Sincerely,
U.N.
Pretty sure the article was about Israeli war crimes. Did you read it?
Haha, I thought it was just a drug addled mindless rant, using various Leftist organizations as proof of your opinions.
Were we supposed to?
Here's the thing, Israel not only engages in gigantic, mind-numbing lies:
So does its army of trolls - which of late, have really been flocking to ZH. Few are top tier, and they do the same here as they do on cnn and huffpo.
The real story here isn't some claim that Hamas is morally immaculate because Israel plainly employs state terrorism as a supplement to the tools of political Zionism (which presupposes ethnic cleansing, apartheid-like practices which exist both in Israel proper and unquestionably in the OPT) but the fact the savage assault on Gaza was premeditated, and launched on a false pretext.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/07/08/who-started-the-cycle-of-v...
http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/07/02/070214-max-blumenthal/
Again, the pro-Israel trolls do not car e- they simply do not care about the facts - for them, it is not a crime if Israel/Jews do it, but the worst crime imaginable if done to Jews or Israel.
Please re-read that. It is entirely accurate. It is pointless to reason with people who lack the capacity to feel shame or guilt over well-documented war crimes and atrocities... when Israel does them. These same people shout from the rooftops about alleged crimes by Arab or Muslim actors. They parrot, without evidence, claims that Hamas used "human shields" while crying antisemite at good evidence, from Israeli sources, that Israel used human shields in violation of the Geneva conventions and ordinary law of war.
Nuclear smuggling by Israel and the building of a arsenal to murder the world?
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-suspected-israeli-involvement-in-1960...
No evidence will suffice for the hasbara troll. But evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons? Well, they know it is true, despite the lack of evidence, despite IAEA inspections, despite the assessments of US intelligence, despite the edicts and statements of Iran's leaders, and despite the fact that Netanyahu, who tried to hard to get the US into Iraq...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQdg4D78Jc
Along with his fellow Zionist Jews in the OSP
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/lie-factory
in accordance with long-standing Zionist pig/neocon warmonger goals...
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
... has been crying wolf on Iranian nukes for over 20 years, all while building more of his own, from stolen US material, all while refusing inspections.
http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/netanyahu-in-1992-iran-close-to-having-n...
http://www.juancole.com/2013/10/israels-netanyahu-really.html
http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/its-psychological-warfare-stupid-why-net...
In short - fuck Israel and fuck its apologists.
The real story was the pretext concocted to commnce the assault on Gaza to make life miserable for the people and encourage emigration. DU shells target the reproductive capacity of the indigenous population of Israel/Palestine. Flechette shells and white phosporus are designed to cause max pain and tissue damage in accrordance with Old Testament/Torah Jewish morality as to non-Jews (read it before deciding, a priori, I must be wrong because it casts Jewish morality in negative light).
But the other important story - yet untold - is how Israel and its 5th column in the US, Canada, UK and elsewhere - MANAGED TO MAKE THE KIDNAPPINGS FRONT PAGE NEWS, INTERNATIONALLY, ALL OF A SUDDEN, BUMPING OTHER COVERAGE OFF THE FRONT PAGE AND GENERALLY DOING EXACTLY WHAT ISRAEL WANTED.
If you don't think Jews/Zionists essentially control the media because it "sounds" anti-Semitic, you should ask yourself if the truth, if facts stop being true/factual because someone doesn't like you discussing the disproportionate power of a particular group.
Your rants are just getting longer and more unhinged from reality. If you're not paid to do this, take the weekend off. Trust me, no one is going to miss your posts and no one is clicking on your links. They tap green and move on to the next person blaming Israel, Jews, mossad, bankers, CIA, whatever. The I hate Israel circlejerk will be back here waiting for you but won't really miss you or need you.
awww frosty - feelin' nervous?
Here's the deal - if I ever say anything factually incorrect, or unfair, call me on it. I have no interest in decrying Israel's crimes or in noting disproportionate power with anything but the facts and the truth.
That, and my superior intellect and knowledge, distinguishes me from you. You're merely a reflexive defender of all things Israel and all things Jewish. You're a fuckin' lawyer - the truth doesn't matter one bit to you.
indeed, the truth is not on your side.
being Washington's lapdog must get so lonesome.
If Washington was smart though, he would find a lapdog that could produce coherent thoughts
different account, now, Frosty?
http://beirut.indymedia.org/images/2004/04/1133.png
aw, Duffy has some sand in his vagina.
Wash, Rinse and Repeat, until Washington's penetration is painless
Israel: A Rogue Nation Commits Genocide As Palestine Is Destroyed Again
a little off topic but...
Israel continues to get away with murder.
Even as its leader tries to hide from both international and American justice...
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/netanyahu-implicated-in-nuclear-smuggling-...
The latest victims of the ISIS campaign of terror in Syria and Iraq have been revealed in a shocking new set of photos published online by the jihadist group's media arm.
Rounded up and marched into the desert, they are made to kneel on the dusty ground before being systematically shot in the head. Others aren't so lucky. One image shows a jihadi fighter gleefully carving off a prisoner's head as the victim screams in agony.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2719991/Horrific-new-photographs...
Meanwhile, while you're off topic, and on yet another rant...
the Islamic State, who is Hamas, who are the Muslim Brotherhood, who are AQ, who are in turn, the Islamic State..
continue to butcher thousands of Yazidis, Sunni Apostates, Christians, Shia, in Syria and Iraq
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Yazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament collapses in tears after calling upon World to Rescue the YazidisYazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament "Fiyan Dakheel" (of the Kurdistan Alliance) collapses in tears after calling upon Humanity to rescue the Yazidis from Genocide. The Iraqi Parliament came together on 5 August 2014 to discuss the latest developments inside Iraq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNoP-tQ5mCw
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You are going to have to find better sources for support than the bozos at the UN and Amnesty Int'l. But nice bit of yellow journalism anyway!
On Earth there's not a better source.
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With recourse to the rhetoric of human rights, HRW also opposes all enforcement of American immigration laws. In 2005, the organization urged Congress to oppose the “Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act,” which provided for a number of measures to strengthen border security. Referring to illegal immigrants as “undocumented workers,” HRW has defended the “right” of illegals to organize unions and has condemned employers who “threaten to call immigration authorities if workers seek to organize or make claims for labor law protection.” HRW has also called on the U.S. government to enact legislation conferring the rights of full citizenship to individuals “regardless of their immigration status,” and “prohibiting any inquiry into … immigration status.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) was founded in 1978 as “Helsinki Watch,” to monitor the Soviet Union’s compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. Among its founders were Bob Bernstein, CEO of Random House publishers; Jeri Laber, a writer and political activist; Aryeh Neier, the current President of the Open Society Institute, a former Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society in 1959; and Orville Schell, Dean of the University of California at Berkley graduate school of journalism and a leftwing journalist. In the 1980s, the organization developed a number of “Watch” committees, including Americas Watch, Asia Watch, and Africa Watch, which ultimately united under the umbrella of the U.S.-based HRW in 1988.
Human Rights Watch purports to be “strictly non-partisan” in orientation and maintains that it “does not favor any political force.” In practice, HRW has often operated as a partisan organization, dressing up its decidedly leftwing political preferences in the language of human rights.
In the United States, HRW regularly interjects itself into domestic political disputes in support of left-liberal positions. For example, the organization maintains that “equitable access to safe abortion services is first and foremost a human right.”
HRW is an opponent, “in all circumstances,” of the death penalty. In defense of this position, HRW claims that capital punishment is incompatible with “human rights” because it is “a form of punishment that is unique in its barbarity and finality.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258
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Human Rights Watch is pro-abortion, but anti-death penalty. Sure, that makes sense /s/
Abortion affects only a body part called a fetus, a collection of cells that is not a real person. That's why it makes sense. Only an insane person argues a fetus is a person or that abortion is killing. 100 billion percent bug-fuck crazy.
Listening to religitards is brain-damaging. We can't kill tha fetuses they'se alive! We haz ta keel all tha mooslims, they'se has tha heresy! And all thar them illeeeeegulls too!
You are so right, my friend. And the Leftist Human Rights Watch isn't much of a source either
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Human Rights Watch Director Privately Slurs Israelhttp://www.volokh.com/tag/human-rights-watch/
The credibility of NGOs like Human Rights Watch depends on their being above and apart from the conflicts they monitor – to not take sides. Human Rights Watch has been criticized by many, including its founder, for giving up all objectivity and adopting an anti-Israel campaign.
Their grudge against Israel has been clear for a while, and David Bernstein has written about it frequently here.
Now, we find evidence of direct personal animus. A news story reveals a private Facebook group whose members include a medley European journalists, NGO officials, and far-left activists. Recently the group turned to discussing an Israeli government report that the famous killing of a Palestinian boy at the start of the Second Intifida was in fact staged. Not only was he not shot by Israel, as much prior evidence suggested, he appears not to have been killed at all. (It would not be the last time Palestinians elaborately staged deaths for PR purposes.)
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There is no leftist.
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except here, there are more biased Leftists
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In September 2010, billionaire philanthropist George Soros -- founder of the Open Society Institute -- announced that he would give $100 million to HRW. This donation would permit the organization to add 120 new staffers to its existing 300-strong payroll.
In February 2011, HRW appointed Shawan Jabarin, the head of Al Haq and allegedly a senior activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), to its Middle East Advisory Board.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258
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nope, hasbara nonsense.
the Israel Firster crowd has been happy to rely on Amnesty and HRW when those groups commented on Palestinian or other Arab state war crimes, as in Syria.
You'd have credibility if it wasn't obvious that, for you, Israel is never guilty of any crime. So you simply assume any such accusation is wrong and/or "anti-Semitism."
It's a common tactic - "what's your source" - oh, that source is unreliable/anti-Semitic.
The truth is, evidence of Israeli war crimes is abundant - and it's not going away. Cry antisemite all you want, you're the deceitful, anti-human monster, whitewashing crimes only when Jews commit them - not us.
Duff says... ""The truth is, evidence of Israeli war crimes is abundant""
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and WHO's the source of YOUR info?
oh wait, that's right, YOU don't have any sources, its just YOUR opinion.
Israel: White phosphorus war-crimes
Human Rights NGOs and the Neglect of Sudan - July 2 2004
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/NGO-Human%20Rights%20NGOs%20...
So what have AI, HRW, and the UN been doing with their multimillion dollar budgets? Their priority has been to focus disproportionately on Israel.
Over the decades, the UN spends far more time condemning Israel than any other country. It lavishes hundreds of millions of dollars each year on the Palestinians, who already receive more foreign aid per capita than any other people.[10] Both AI and HRW have issued far more documents criticizing Israel than Sudan, or for that matter, Algeria, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Congo, Cuba, or Zimbabwe.[11] This obsession would make sense if Israel was among the worst human rights offenders in the world. But by any objective measure this is not the case. Even with the harshest interpretation of Israeli’s policies, which takes no account of cause and effect, and Israel’s predicament of facing existential war, there can be no comparison to the civil wars in Sudan, Algeria, or Congo. Like the UN, the policies of AI and HRW have more to do with politics than human rights.
Had the international community paid half as much attention to the race war in Sudan as it did to Israel’s construction of a security barrier (from March 2003 to February 2004), then the Sudanese government would not have continued its ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. The regime would rather not be in the spotlight. The fact that international human rights organizations finally mobilized to do their job underscores what they could have done to prevent the tragedy of Darfur, had they agitated sooner. It also demonstrates what they did not do for the many cruel years of the jihad against non-Muslims in the South. The world would be a better place if the watchdogs had their priorities straight and understood when and where they must bark the loudest.
Israel enslaved an entire NATION & plans to murder it. It is the #1 100% worst human rights offender on Earth.
why not try a google search, cunt? Any source I give you will simply be deemed 'unreliable' or, the always populr 'anti-semitic'
go fuck yourself.
Haha, well your mother asked me to do her first, and your sister asked for seconds