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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lousy standards of Human Rights Watch
Such are the lousy standards of Human Rights Watch: "we urge you to address the pressing matter of serious violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel." In the eyes of Human Rights Watch, there is a symmetry between victims and killers. If Human Rights Watch was around in WWII, it would have accused Warsaw Ghetto rebels with war crimes (and to balance that it would have added that Nazis also committed war crimes). But I can say this: this sentence cited above is guaranteed to not offend "pro-Israel donors" as the director of Human Rights Watch refers to them in inside communication (that was made available to me by insiders). (thanks Nadim)