I was just reading a Haaretz story about the orchestrated Israeli government campaign against Human Rights Watch in response to the latter's support for the Goldstone Report. The article noted that Elie Wiesel signed a letter to the Guardian which praised Robert Bernstein's bitter, disjointed diatribe against HRW in the NY Times Op Ed section. But this … [Read more...]
Human Rights Watch Accuses IDF of ‘Stonewalling’ on White Flag Murders
During the Gaza war, Israel killed 1,400 Gazans of whom 1,100 were civilians. The latter were killed in varied ways, some by accident, some by negligence, and some in cold blood. Human Rights Watch released a stinging rebuke of the IDF's "investigation" of so-called "white flag" deaths in which soldiers murdered civilians displaying white flags who were in … [Read more...]
Israel Tests New Highly Lethal, Cancer-Causing Tungsten Bomb in Gaza
Hat tip to Sol Salbe for turning me on to the following story by Haaretz's Meron Rapoport. Forget about Israel being a "light unto the nations" as the seminal early Zionist thinker Ahad HaAm used to say. Think more like Nazi Germany and the Spanish Civil War. Besides an ideological affinity between Franco's fascists and Hitler, the Fuhrer found that … [Read more...]
Human Rights Watch Suggests Unexploded Israeli Shell May’ve Caused Gaza Beach Massacre
There's the truth and then there's the Jerusalem Post's version. These two are often as mismatched as Beauty and the Beast. The Post, in typically sloppy journalistic fashion has published a misleading report on a meeting between Human Rights Watch bomb damage assessment expert Marc Garlasco and IDF Maj. Gen. Meir Kalifi, who conducted the investigation … [Read more...]