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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
""Hezbollah is trying to silence criticism of its conduct during the 2006 war," Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, said in a statement. "But the fairness and accuracy of our reporting will speak for themselves, whether we hold a press conference or not."" I don't know why Sarah does not mention that Fu'ad Sanyurah and March 14 figures of Bush's favorite "democratically elected" government of Lebanon have also been "trying to silence criticisms" of HRW. Even An-Nahar said in its headline today that the campaign agaisnt HRW was also conducted by the Lebanese government. But wait. I know. She was trying to win favor with the Bush administration and most importantly with Zionists in the US by only mentioning Hizbullah when there was a whole array of groups, parties, and leaders who opposed the HRW's press conference. The only one who supported the HRW's right to hold a press conference in Beirut was former prime minister, Salim Huss (who called on people to express their outrage at HRW's biases in the Middle East). I am glad that HRW was not around during WWII. I am certain that they would have opposed the revolt of the Warsaw ghetto.