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"The Foreign Ministry issued a sharp attack on the report prior to its publication and said it was a ‘tendentious description of reality that doesn’t rest on objective and professional criteria.’" "In advance of the report, Gerald Steinberg, the executive director of NGO Monitor, said, ‘This report is clearly part of a campaign to deprive Israel of the means to defend itself. This is another example of Amnesty’s double standards and anti-Israel bias exploiting the language of international law.’ ‘Amnesty’s reports on Israel are often based on inaccuracies, half-truths and unverifiable allegations from so-called eyewitnesses, and reflect a lack of serious credible research capabilities,’ Steinberg said. ‘In 2002, an Amnesty ‘expert’ first confirmed the nonexistent Jenin ‘massacre,’ and in the 2006 conflict with Hizbullah, many of Amnesty’s claims were later shown to be unsubstantiated. The factual errors are amplified by inaccurate statements using the rhetoric of international law, using terms such as ‘disproportionate’ and ‘war crimes,’ which they apply far more to Israel than to groups such as Hamas. This ideologically biased pattern was repeated in the recent Gaza conflict.’"