Mouin sent me this (I cite with his permission): "In
view of the growing Palestinian body count, it would be difficult for HRW to
serve up more crap about Palestinian violations and Israeli
counter-attacks.You
may well be right they are desperately hoping for a ceasefire so they can issue
an anodyne report six months from now. The
other possibility is they are desperately hoping a Palestinian missile kills
enough Israelis so they can rationalise a return to their usual posturing."