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NGOs, Universal Human Rights and Gilad Shalit: Four Years of Double Standards
For most of the four years since the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, most human rights NGOs have ignored his situation. On the fourth anniversary of Shalits capture, most of these NGOs continued their silence. The exceptions were HRW, BTselem, and PCATI. Amnesty International, which was initially active, to a limited degree, on the Shalit issue, was silent.
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Pathological Politics: HRW's "White Flags" Report
HRWs allegation that Israeli forces deliberately killed Palestinian non-combatants who had surrendered is an incendiary moral indictment. Video and similar evidence that is inconsistent with the indictment is entirely missing from the HRW report. The report is based on inconsistent Palestinian testimony, claims copied from other NGOs, and irrelevant forensic evidence. In response to criticism, HRW issued a defensive press release that did not address the substantial flaws in its report. The inability to verify claims is inconsistent with definitive pronouncements on war crimes -- an accusation made 15 times in this report.