Sunday, May 08, 2011

Western human rights organizations (and other NGOs) have lost much of their credibility

It is clear to me.  That since the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 and the assault on Gaza in 2008, Western human rights organizations (and other major NGOs) have lost much of their credibility.  You have a state that is an aggressor and those organizations now feel compelled to issue statements and reports that insist on maintaining "balance" (for fund raising purposes only and for political cowardice) by criticizing the aggressor state and whoever is fighting against aggression on the other side.  So the notion that there is an aggressor or occupier and victims has now been nullified in the human rights reports of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and other Western NGOs.  I don't recall that Amnesty International issued reports criticizing the fanatical US/Saudi/Pakistani-supported Islamic extremists who were fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (and the communist era in Afghanistan now looks glorious in comparison of what followed).  Also, will Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch investigate reported cases of massacres and war crimes by the Libyan rebels?