Wednesday, July 19, 2006

NGO = NO-GOOD ORGANIZATIONS

NGOs Exploit Lebanon Crisis to Attack Israel (NGO Monitor)
Concurrent with the outbreak of the fighting, major international NGOs, including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, and World Vision International issued statements that failed to distinguish between Hizballah's intentional attacks against civilians and Israel's response against strategic Hizballah targets.

BUT SEE: Human Rights Watch: Hizballah Rocket Attacks on Haifa Designed to Kill Civilians (Human Rights Watch)
Hizballah's attacks in Israel were at best indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas, at worst the deliberate targeting of civilians. Either way, they were serious violations of international humanitarian law and probable war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Some of the rockets launched against Haifa contained hundreds of metal ball bearings that are of limited use against military targets but cause great harm to civilians and property.

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