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| HRW equally guilty in blaming Israel for Mishrawi baby's death Posted: 09 Mar 2013 08:00 PM PST Last week I revealed that the UN verified that, Omar Mishrawi, the 11-month old son of a BBC employee, was killed by a Hamas rocket during Operation Pillar of Defense. The BBC and other media outlets flatly blamed his death on Israel with no caveats. The scoop has been tearing through cyberspace, with over 1000 Facebook "Likes" and well over a hundred retweets, many to the BBC demanding a retraction. More problematic than even the BBC denial that this could have been a Hamas rocket is how Human Rights Watch reported the same incident, in lurid detail: Israeli strikes on November 14 killed at least four Palestinian civilians, including a man in his 60s, a 20-year-old woman, a 7-year-old girl, an 18-month-old boy, and an 11-month-old boy, and severely wounded a girl, aged about 5, according to news reports and witnesses who spoke to Human Rights Watch. An 18-month old boy injured on November 14 died the following day, Palestinian media reported.Now we know that at least two of these victims were killed by Hamas (and a third died later) but HRW has not issued a correction. Nor has it issued any reports about Hamas endangering Gaza civilians with its own rockets. Even a month after the fighting, in HRW's perfunctory report condemning Hamas rocket attacks, there is no mention of Gazans killed by Hamas rockets or even of Hamas rockets falling short - even though by then these facts were well known. (They only say that the rockets being fired from civilian areas endanger civilians open to Israeli reprisals, not the direct danger from the rockets. Yet at that time it was already known that about a hundred rockets had fallen short in Gaza.) Does HRW know the truth? There is evidence it does. When it released its February report/smear "Gaza Airstrikes Violated Laws of War" it did not mention either the Mishrawi case, or the other case of a known Hamas rocket that killed Gazans, the Sadallah incident. And the OCHA-OPT report at the end of November says: [I]nformation collected by human rights organizations suggests that up to six Palestinian civilians, including one woman and three children, may have been killed by Palestinian rockets falling short within Gaza.I don't know if HRW is one of these organizations, but the knowledge that some of the Gaza victims were actually killed by Hamas rockets was well-known by human right organizations during the fighting - and virtually unreported. it seems beyond belief that HRW, among the most prestigious human rights organizations, could have missed this information. More likely, it simply ignored it, and never bothered correcting its earlier report. It is bad enough for the media to get it wrong. But HRW still has some gravitas among certain people and their refusal to ever correct their mistakes, and their lack of transparency on how they generate their reports altogether, is far worse.           |
| Arab world's "Perfect Mother" is the wife, mother of terrorists Posted: 09 Mar 2013 06:00 PM PST From Al Monitor: Aisha Abu Shannab, or Om Hassan, a woman in her 50s from the Gaza Strip, was awarded the Mother of the Year prize on Feb. 28. She received the honor from the Ex-Warriors Association, a local chapter affiliated with the Arab League.Here's what the Al Monitor article doesn't say: Ismail Abu Shannab, her husband, was a top Hamas leader second only to Sheikh Yassin.  Her son was also a Hamas Al Qassam Brigades member, and apparently part of a music group meant to "be a blow in the heart of the enemy." Here's one of his promotional photos:  So the "ideal mother" of the entire Arab world is an enthusiastic supporter of Islamist terror. (h/t JW, Al Gharqad)      |
| Posted: 09 Mar 2013 04:00 PM PST From Ian: Sarah Honig: Another Tack: Why it matters Peace cannot begin to be made before the malignant characterization of Jewish statehood as a casus belli is recanted convincingly and comprehensively once and for all. In other words, rather than be accepted as rightfully a Jewish state, Israel is regarded at most as a multinational temporary entity and a candidate for impending Arabization. It wouldn't be left in peace unless it submits meekly to said Arabization and the eradication of its Jewishness.Barry Rubin: Good News; War Postponed: Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Angry at Hamas, Cuts Off Weapons Something both positive and revealing has just happened and while it undermines one prediction of mine it reinforces another. I'm delighted to see it.CIF Watch: Guardian & BBC got the death of Omar Misharawi wrong: But, nothing will change. Sela, in her Nov. 25 post, argued that, "The tragic story of Omar Misharawi [was] used and abused to advance a very specific narrative of Israel as a killer of children."Hamas's blockade on women's rights in Gaza Guardian contributors and editors are simply indefatigable in their efforts to run interference for the reactionary movement in control of 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza. Guardian reporters and contributors have implicitly blamed the Israeli blockade for spousal abuse in Gaza, and even on one Palestinian man's suicide, so a recent first person account by Najah Ayash (titled 'Life in Gaza on International Women's Day') addressing her life as a women in Gaza, which completely ignored Hamas's violation of women's human rights, was not surprising.Hamas' Haniyeh Says Obama Visit a "Trap" Haniyeh also urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to not fall prey to Obama during their visit, which is scheduled to take place while Obama is in the region, saying he should "not fall into the trap of Obama's visit to the region and shut the door to reconciliation."Hamas: Obama Visit to Temple Mount - a Declaration of War Hamas and Islamic Jihad say that a visit by Obama to the Temple Mount will be a declaration of war on the Islamic world. The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups threatened on Friday that a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel will be a declaration of war on the Arab and the Islamic world.Palestinians throw petrol bombs at cops from inside Temple Mount mosque Jerusalem police calls violence from within al-Aqsa 'a new escalation'; nine officers and dozens of rioters lightly injured in riots Israeli police entered Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound on Friday to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who, for the second Friday in succession, emerged from prayers to throw rocks at security forces near the entrance to the compound.Exclusive: Calling for Intifada on the Streets of Washington Anti-Israel groups often use terms such as "justice" and "pro-peace" to hide their true agenda which, as the video shows, is really "intifada." There is a new push to claim that a new "intifada" may be non-violent, but history suggests otherwise.Op-Ed: EXPOSÉ:Something is Rotten in a Denmark Unsafe for Jews It's just as unsafe in 2013 to be a Jew in Copenhagen as it is to be a Jew in an Arab country. In 2001, a poster in Arabic was pinned up on the notice board at a Copenhagen college. It promised a reward of $35,000 to anybody who would kill a Jew. As my late friend Oriana Fallaci once wrote, "I find it shameful that in Denmark the youth flaunt the kaffiah as Mussolini's avant garde flaunted the fascist badge".France posts documents from Dreyfus trial online Notorious case proved pivotal in establishing political Zionism The historical department of the French Ministry of Defense, SHD, placed online this week the entire military file that was used to convict Dreyfus of spying for Germany in 1894. The documents include items like investigative notes, witness statements, letters and documents stolen from foreign embassies.Appeals court to reconsider Jerusalem passport case Jewish groups press courts to hear petition of man determined to list country of birth as Israel A U.S. court of appeals will again hear arguments on whether Americans born in Jerusalem can have "Israel" listed as their birthplace in their passports.Minister Kenney issues statement regarding 'Israel apartheid week' "Operating under the guise of academic freedom, Israel Apartheid Week is a misleading attempt to delegitimize and demonize the only true liberal democracy in the Middle East. IAW's organizers choose to promote inflammatory propaganda over civil and enlightening debate. Their approach is at odds with the Canadian values of tolerance and mutual respect, and prevents meaningful dialogue from taking place.Miliband declares himself a Zionist in Q&A with UK Jews Riding high in the polls, Labour leader says he may not agree with every Israeli policy, but he owes the Jewish state a 'debt' Asked whether he was a Zionist, Miliband responded, "Yes. I consider myself a supporter of Israel… It doesn't mean I support everything Israel's government does."Armless Combat Soldier Provides Inspirational Message One of the participants at this year's AIPAC policy conference was Izzy Ezagui, a 24-year-old combat reserves officer.      |
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