So typical:
…From 2006 to the present, Human Rights Watch’s reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict have been almost entirely devoted to condemning Israel, accusing it of human rights and international law violations, and demanding international investigations into its conduct. It has published some 87 criticisms of Israeli conduct against the Palestinians and Hezbollah, versus eight criticisms of Palestinian groups and four of Hezbollah for attacks on Israel. (It also published a small number of critiques of both Israel and Arab groups, and of intra-Palestinian fighting.)
It was during this period that more than 8,000 rockets and mortars were fired at Israeli civilians by Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza. Human Rights Watch’s response? In November 2006 it said that the Palestinian Authority “should stop giving a wink and a nod to rocket attacks.” Two years later it urged the Hamas leadership “to speak out forcefully against such [rocket] attacks . . . and bring to justice those who are found to have participated in them.”
In response to the rocket war and Hamas’s violent takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel imposed a partial blockade of Gaza. Human Rights Watch then published some 28 statements and reports on the blockade, accusing Israel in highly charged language of an array of war crimes and human rights violations…
The bottom line for international do-gooder organizations is that they simply cannot be trusted. Its not a gigantic, anti-Israel or anti-America conspiracy. But the fact is that the people who volunteer to staff these organizations come from a small group of similar-minded people. Its not too often that, say, a US soldier will leave the Army after an illustrious career and go in to Human Rights Watch – he should, as he’s done more for human rights than most, but its just not in the cards. Meanwhile, people with advanced degrees – but no practical experience – flock to such groups and as they have been heavily pre-indoctrinated in to a leftist worldview, it is natural that they’ll reserve their heaviest fire for those targets hated by the left.
We shouldn’t allow this state of affairs to continue – we should get some real money and talent behind groups who will tell the truth – the whole truth – about the state of human rights in the world. We should not have groups more beholden to a leftist worldview than to truth.
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