Tuesday, October 20, 2009
OK. Who wrote this - in the New York Times yet?
"AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state."
Whoa.
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Whoa indeed! Thanks for calling attention to this.
BTW, that link could use some editing, Sol...
Link fixed. This is a mind-blowing development. So good to see so much confirmed from a man who's impossible to ignore. This is exactly what so many of us have been saying concerning HRW's mission creep for a long time.
It's gone way beyond mission creep. HRW staff responsible for Israel doesn't believe that the country should exist; of course that makes objective analysis impossible. The same staff have refused to condemn terrorism against Israeli civilians, including the massacre of athletes at the Munich Olympics. The entire organization is a farce.
I should be called hamas/hezbullah Rights Watch.
The goldstone report is just as "fair and balanced" as hrw.
IT should be called hamas/hezbullah Rights Watch.
And the "goldstone report" is as "fair and balanced" as hrw.