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In a nutshell, Human Rights Watch's founder says they have lost touch, are out of balance, ignore arab massacres and abuses, and is in serious need to a reality check...
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In a New York Times opinion piece, Robert L. Bernstein, who served as Human Rights Watch chairman from 1978 to 1998 and is now its founding chairman emeritus, wrote that with increasing frequency, the watchdog casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies.
"Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East," he said. "The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region."
He said Israel was home to at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, a judiciary that frequently rules against the government, a politically active academia, multiple political parties and probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world.
On the other hand, he said, the Iranian regime, and most Arab regimes, remained "brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent."
He said Human Rights Watch's Middle East division could be greatly beneficial to citizens of those countries, but they were instead being ignored as "report after report on Israel" was compiled.
He said the group had "lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hizbullah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields."
Bernstein stressed that those terror groups were backed by Iran, which has called for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews, and said such incitement to genocide was a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
"Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hizbullah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields," he wrote. "They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch's criticism."
Published days after the Human Rights Council endorsed the Goldstone Commission report that accused Israel of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during last winter's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, the opinion piece notably points out that there was a difference between wrongs committed in self-defense and those carried out intentionally.
"In Gaza and elsewhere where there is no access to the battlefield or to the military and political leaders who make strategic decisions, it is extremely difficult to make definitive judgments about war crimes," Bernstein went on to say. "Reporting often relies on witnesses whose stories cannot be verified and who may testify for political advantage or because they fear retaliation from their own rulers.
"Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significantly diminished."In a nutshell, Human Rights Watch's founder says they have lost touch, are out of... more
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The next generation of Partners In Peace:
Children of suicide terrorist:
"Where did Mommy go?
- In the Garden (Paradise).
She killed Jews. Right? How many Jews did she kill? How many?
- Five "The next generation of Partners In Peace:
Children of suicide terrorist:... more
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These are our partners in peace?
"Palestinians drink the blood of Jews. My message to the loathed Jews: There is no god but Allah, we will chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood. We know that there is no better blood than the blood of Jews. We won't leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children's thirst with your blood."These are our partners in peace?
"Palestinians drink the blood of Jews. My message... more
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Palestinian children aspire to death as Martyrs
Host: You described Shahada (suicide terrorism) as something beautiful.
Walla age 11: Shahada is a very, very beautiful thing. Everyone yearns for Shahada.
What could be sweeter than going to paradise?
Host: What is better, peace and full rights for the Palestinian people or Shahada?
Walla: Shahada.
Yussra age 11: Of course Shahada is sweet. We don't want this world, we want the Afterlife.
Sabrine: Ayyat Al-Akhras was 17 when she blew herself up.
Host: Sabrine, are you for it or against it?
Sabrine: Of course I support blowing up, it is our right.
Host: Sabrine; now is it natural that Ayyat Al-Akhras blows herself up?
Sabrine: Of course it's natural.Palestinian children aspire to death as Martyrs
Host: You described Shahada... more
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Palestinian kindergarten graduation ceremony
The following clip will illustrate the Palestinian childhood, and some scenes of the children's celebration of the Islamic Association's kindergartens.
Your path? Jihad!
Your aspiration? Death for Allah.
Your aspiration? Death for Allah.Palestinian kindergarten graduation ceremony
The following clip will illustrate the... more
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From our "Partners In Peace", moronic Palestinian preacher says Jews planned Holocaust.
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Israeli soldiers who raid the homes of Palestinians are more polite than the Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank, the mother of a top Hamas terrorist. Her son, Yihye Ayyash, nicknamed The Engineer, was responsible for a spate of suicide bombings in the 1990s that killed more than 100 Israelis and wounded hundreds others.
"When the Jews come, they ask for permission and cry out before they enter a house." She said that Abbas's security forces acted in a "barbaric" manner and did not take into account that women and children were sleeping inside the house. "They behaved in a shameful way," she said.
The mother was speaking shortly after 30 security forces loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas stormed her family's house in the village of Rafat in the West Bank. The Palestinian policemen did not even knock on the door, she added. "They raided the house and started searching for weapons," she said. "They left behind a lot of damage. Even a copy of the Koran was not spared."Israeli soldiers who raid the homes of Palestinians are more polite than the... more
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A peak behind the Islamic veil...
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This is the pilot episode for SHERIFTV. A reality show about stand up comedian Sherif Hedayat and his adventures around the world in and out of the comedy club.
Special thanks to HUGO from Tantric for allowing me to use two of their songs for this pilot episode. The songs are "Down and Out" and "Monopoly".
In this episode, Sherif learns how to be a professional wrestler from Maniac Mark Mustang.This is the pilot episode for SHERIFTV. A reality show about stand up comedian Sherif... more
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This is a video of stand up comedian Sherif Hedayat addressing some issues with the new traffic laws and sexual harrassment laws in Egypt last week during the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Show.This is a video of stand up comedian Sherif Hedayat addressing some issues with the... more
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