Perhaps one of the most pointed commentaries today about Ariel Sharon's demise focuses on how Human Rights Watch wrote an article full of outrage at Sharon's crime of standing idle by while Christian militias in Lebanon massacred their enemies at a refugee camp.
Human Rights Watch: "Ariel Sharon died without facing justice for his role in the massacres of hundreds and perhaps thousands of civilians by Lebanese militias in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. The killings constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"Sharon also escaped accountability for other alleged abuses, such as his role expanding settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, prosecutable as a war crime. Sharon ordered the removal of all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and from four West Bank settlements in 2005, but the overall number of settlers in occupied territory increased significantly during his term as prime minister."
Blogger Elder of Ziyon writes:
As far as I can tell, HRW has never written an article like this about the death of any other person. Not Osama bin Laden, not Moammar Qaddafi, not Saddam Hussein. Only Ariel Sharon gets treated this way. Now, if you do a search through HRW's archives of the word "Phalangist" (or "Keta'eb," which is the current name of that group in Lebanon, still an active political party) you will not find a single condemnation of their massacres in Sabra and Shalita. Every single time they are mentioned it is in context of - Ariel Sharon.
To HRW, the people who actually slaughter human beings and mutilate pregnant women are blameless. They are not worthy of any calls to investigation, there is no reason to seek justice from them.
In fact, Lebanon saw much worse massacres in recent decades- even against Palestinian civilians - and HRW has not a word to say about those massacres. Only if a Jew can be blamed is it worth being brought up.
AND WHY ISN'T THIS CONSIDERED A CRIME?
Sharon forcibly expelled thousands (10,000) of Jews from their homes in Gaza and the West Bank. This would seem to be against the Geneva Conventions. The ICRC interprets international law this way: "Individual or mass forcible transfers...are prohibited, regardless of their motive." But they were Jews, so HRW has nothing bad to say about that.
Jews in the territories are the only group of people in the world that HRW insists should be forcibly removed from their homes. There is a double standard clear to all: international law must be twisted to ensure that Jews, the indigenous people of ancient Israel and Judah, are always violators of law while Arabs who invaded or moved in millenia later are nearly blameless in their actions.
Read more - http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/why-hrw-is-racist-it-condemns-sharon-in.html#.UtNfFCQWKM8
Pictures of the brutal and bloody expulsion of Israeli Jews from Amona, by their own government, and contrary to international law. Some people received permanent disabling injuries as a result.
The expulsions of Jews from Gush Katif were carried out by PM Ariel Sharon, breaking promises he had made as a candidate. The ones from Amona by his successor and close collaborator, PM Ehud Olmert.
MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
Settlements use less than 2% of the West Bank area demanded by the Arabs
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFsettlements.html
MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT THE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
Settlements use less than 2% of the West Bank area demanded by the Arabs
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFsettlements.html
More on mass expulsions of Israeli citizens here: http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/what-motivated-former-israeli-prime.html
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH GOES TO SAUDI ARABIA ...
Not to criticize their appalling human rights record,
but to raise money to attack Israel.
Wall Street Journal (2009) - A delegation from Human Rights Watch was in Saudi Arabia.
To investigate the mistreatment of women under Saudi Law? To campaign for the rights of homosexuals, subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia? To protest the lack of religious freedom in the Saudi Kingdom? To issue a report on Saudi political prisoners?
No, no, no, and no.
The delegation arrived to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW's demonization of Israel. An HRW spokesperson, Sarah Leah Whitson, highlighted HRW's battles with "pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations." (Was Ms. Whitson required to wear a burkha, or are exceptions made for visiting anti-Israel "human rights" activists"? Driving a car, no doubt, was out of the question.)
Apparently, Ms. Whitson found no time to criticize Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record. But never fear, HRW "recently called on the Kingdom to do more to protect the human rights of domestic workers. (But why not those of Saudi citizens themselves?)
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