Friday, 6 February 2009












Thursday, 5th February 2009

Hamas war crimes? Obviously. So blame the victim

11:56pm


Even by their usual standards, the excuse that ‘human rights’ groups have now come up with to explain the fact that, while they devote obsessive attention to alleged human rights abuses by Israel they all but ignore those unambiguously committed by Hamas, is pretty jaw-dropping. It’s because the war crimes by Hamas are too obvious. The Jerusalem Post reports Sarit Micha’eli of the Israeli NGO B’tselem as saying that it was clear that Hamas was in violation of the requirement of the distinction between civilian and military targets:

‘It makes it quite easy regarding Hamas. It is quite clear that they are attacking and targeting civilians. When someone straps a bomb on themselves or fire missiles at civilians, the details are less important. It is clearly a war crime without even looking at the details,’ she said.

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