If, as the press coming out of that part of the world would have you believe, Israel’s goal with the blockade of Gaza is to starve the people and destroy their economy, then Israel is doing a terrible job of it!
HT: Israel Matzav
UN Human Rights Council Opens Permanent Indictment of Israel
September 21, 2007 by View Comments
This comes from UN Watch:
Geneva, Sept. 20, 2007 — Today the UN Human Rights Council launched a new agenda item singling out Israel for permanent indictment. The debate allowed the Palestinian representative to take the floor and accuse Israel of “atrocities”, Syria to charge Israel with “Judaising” the Golan, and the Islamic group to protest Israel’s “entry of Syrian airspace.” Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement complained Israel was “excavating around the Al-Aqsa mosque.” Iran, Kuwait, Algeria, and Venezuela and others also joined in condemning the Jewish state. (See summary here.)For a transcript of the above video, click here.
HRW: Israeli strikes in Lebanon indiscriminate
September 6, 2007 by View Comments
In its harshest condemnation of Israel since last summer’s war, Human Rights Watch on Thursday charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from “indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes.”
The human rights organization said there was no basis to the Israeli claim that civilian casualties resulted from Hizbullah guerrillas using civilians as shields. Israel has said that it attacked civilian areas because Hizbullah set up rocket launchers in villages and towns.
Full Article (ynet)
Seriously, who’s pulling the strings over at Human Rights Watch?
