The leftist Canadian state-run media, the CBC, managed to pull-off another amazing feat just a while ago on its web site. They managed to file a report about what the leftist Amnesty International thinks about Israel and its recent actions in defence of itself, without even ONCE mentioning that Amnesty International is a leftist group which nearly never sees the defence interests of America or Israel as valid.
Even as Amnesty International bashes Israel, it fails to recognize the damage done by indiscriminately-fired rocket by Hezbollah terrorists (they don’t even see them as terrorists, it seems) into plainly civilian Israel; and that in fact the terrorists started this and forced Israel’s hand once again. They fail to acknowledge that the terrorists dig-in with civilians in Lebanon and use them as human shields, affording Israel no other way than to harm civilians in defence of itself. The terrorists made this so, and Amnesty International dismisses it.
This report says more about the blinkered Amnesty International than it does about Israel.
Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Lebanon
Amnesty International has accused Israel of war crimes in Lebanon, including indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and the intentional destruction of civilian infrastructure.
Lebanese men look at the damage to a road that was hit in a missile strike during an Israeli army raid in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, on Aug. 5. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press) “Israel’s assertion that the attacks on the infrastructure were lawful is manifestly wrong. … The evidence strongly suggests that the extensive destruction of power and water plants, as well as the transport infrastructure vital for food and other humanitarian relief, was deliberate and an integral part of a military strategy,” said Amnesty’s executive deputy secretary-general, Kate Gilmore.
The London-based human rights organization issued a report Wednesday saying both Israel and its Lebanon-based foe, the militant group Hezbollah, have repeatedly committed grave violations of international humanitarian law over many years of conflict.
As in the past, the Israeli government rejected Amnesty’s charges.
The report focuses on Israel’s latest air and ground campaign in Lebanon, a bid to crush Hezbollah and halt its practice of firing rockets into Israel.
“The widespread destruction of apartments, houses, electricity and water services, roads, bridges, factories and ports, in addition to several statements by Israeli officials, suggests a policy of punishing both the Lebanese government and the civilian population in an effort to get them to turn against Hezbollah,” the report said.
“Israeli attacks did not diminish, nor did their pattern appear to change, even when it became clear that the victims of the bombardment were predominantly civilians, which was the case from the first days of the conflict.”
In her statement, Gilmore dismissed the idea that Israel targeted Hezbollah positions and support facilities and that other damage to infrastructure was a result of the group using civilians as human shields. […]
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