Tuesday, January 29, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
NGO Monitor: HRW’s Gaza Statement: Moral Muddle and False Allegations - '... While many journalists acknowledged that Hamas manipulated and manufactured this "humanitarian crisis", including ordering bakery owners to keep their stores closed, this was inconsistent with Stork’s objective. [Joel Stork] also ignored evidence that fuel intended for a European hospital in Gaza was diverted to supply the "Hamas-affiliated Executive Force." HRW’s portrayal of the mass exodus through the border with Egypt as an act of desperation in response to the Israeli “blockade” is also misleading, in the light of the televisions and other luxury goods purchased by the Palestinians. They were clearly not starving, or in the middle of a life-threatening crisis...'
