Sunday, February 22, 2009

Amnesty International Comes Out in Support of the Murder of Jews

They didn't say it in so many words, of course, but that's the real meaning of the 38 page report issues Sunday.

According to an article in The Jerusalem Post, which may be read in full at <www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304850853&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull>, Amnesty Internation, long biased against Israel, "called on the United States to stop weapons sales to Israel and on all countries to impose an arms embargo on both Israel and the Palestinians."

Such an embargo, of course, would have absolutely no effect on the Arab terrorists, who get their weapons from rogue states like Iran, Syria and North Korea. Nor would it apply to those or any of the other Arab and Muslim states which would love the opportunity to succeed in their war of genocide against the Jewish state.

The only effect of such an embargo would be to emasculate Israel and make it far more difficult, if not impossible, to prevent a bloodbath.

The following is excerpted from the article in The Jerusalem Post.



Amnesty urges arms embargo on Israel


Tovah Lazaroff and Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post

The human rights group Amnesty International called on the United States to stop weapons sales to Israel and on all countries to impose an arms embargo on both Israel and the Palestinians.

"As the major supplier of weapons to Israel, the USA has a particular obligation to stop any supply that contributes to gross violations of the laws of war and of human rights. The Obama administration should immediately suspend US military aid to Israel," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty's Middle East director.

He also called on the "UN Security Council to impose an immediate and comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups."

The London-based group, which operates in 150 countries, targeted both Israel and Hamas in the 38-page report it issued late Sunday night.

But the bulk of the text detailed Israeli actions against Palestinians in Gaza and US culpability for Israel's 22-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. Amnesty has been highly critical of Israel in past reports.



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."



The ministry took Amnesty to task for its comparison of the supplying of arms to Israel to the supplying of arms to Hamas.

"Israel is a sovereign state obligated to use force to protect its citizens, while Hamas is a terrorist organization. Is it possible to compare the arms in al-Qaida's hands to the weapons in the hands of the NATO forces?" the statement read.



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."

Rebecca Anna Stoil contributed to this report.

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