I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
Human Rights Watch Targets Hamas For A Change
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Arutz Sheva reports that Human Rights Watch, the group that usually takes aim at Israel based on any number of Palestinian-propagandist rumors, has finally decided to address a real human rights issue, namely, the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit by Hamas, who has been held prisoner with virtually no contact with the outside world for three years now.
HRW said that his treatment “may amount to torture” which—although a bit wishy-washy when compared with their usual unqualified condemnations of Israel—is at least a step in the right direction.
Now, the real question is whether or not they will follow up with this and beat this drum as persistently as they do when lambasting Israel. Judging by the three long years it took them to finally pick up this issue in the first place, let’s just say I’m not putting any bets on it.
And that’s also aside from the fact that they’re merely demanding for him to have the right to communicate with his family. They say, “Hamas authorities have no excuse for cutting off Shalit from his family and the outside world for three years.” Notice that they say nothing of Hamas kidnapping him and holding him captive in the first place.
Apparently, according to this “human rights group”, it’s okay to kidnap someone and hold him for three years with no crime, no trial, nothing… but if they take away his phone call, then that’s crossing the line.
[...] don’t know if this is directly related to the subject of my previous post, Human Rights Watch Targets Hamas For A Change, but Haaretz is reporting breaking news that, according to European sources, Gilad Shalit’s [...]