Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Western Human rights organizations: on their moral bankruptcy

I wrote a lengthy article last week in Al-Akhbar in Arabic about the moral bankruptcy of Western human rights organizations.  I maintain that they are mere tools of Western governments and that their funders largely dictate their agenda and that their report have habitually equated the killers and victims.  In every report now they neutralize the crimes of the occupiers and aggressors by affixing any accusation to an occupation party or an aggressor of war crimes with an instant accusation to the victims. The report by Amnesty International yesterday that "all sides" in Yemen committed war crimes is but an example. No matter what Israeli does and no matter how many massacres Israel commits Western human rights organizations will not accuse Israel of war crimes without attaching accusations to Hamas and Hizbollah of war crimes, thereby serving to absolve Israel of crimes, or rendering such accusations irrelevant.  Western human rights organizations are the last place one goes to for addressing human rights. This is why it is incumbent on developing nations to produce their own human rights organizations that don't mimic Western human rights organizations, in their terminology, agenda, standards, and most importantly funding.