Tuesday, February 19, 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: Human Rights Watch’s Cluster Munitions Report: Under the Façade - 'On February 17, 2008, Human Rights Watch issued a 131 page report condemning Israel's use of cluster munitions in response to Hezbollah attacks during the 2006 war. This follows dozens of earlier publications and hundreds of pages of reports making parallel charges against Israel and using similar rhetoric. (In comparison, HRW issued a one-page press release headlined &qut;HRW: Lebanon/Israel: Hezbollah Hit Israel with Cluster Munitions During Conflict in October 2007). While the issues related to the particular use of cluster munitions, as opposed to other weapons, in this and other conflicts, require careful professional analysis (as is found in the Winograd Commission report), HRW’s version provides neither...'
