Friday, March 7, 2008
I'm no fan of B'Tselem, but this is how you condemn a terror attack. You condemn it without equivocation:
B'Tselem severely condemns the Palestinian terror attack that took place in a shcool in Jerusalem, in which 8 Israeli civilians, including 4 minors were killed and many other persons were injured.
Over the past seven years, Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and in the Occupied Territories have killed hundreds and injured thousands of Israeli civilians, among them men, women, and children.
Attacks aimed at civilians are immoral, inhuman, and illegal. Intentional killing of civilians is a grave breach of international humanitarian law and is considered a war crime that can never be justified, whatever the circumstances may be...
Compare and contrast to the comments of Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Director for the Middle East and North Africa as quoted in this article at YNet, who seems to spend more time condemning the Israelis for what they haven't even done (yet) than he does the act itself:
..."The lives of Palestinian civilians, who bear no responsibility for yesterday's attack in Jerusalem, should not be put in jeopardy as a result, and the population of the occupied Palestinian territories should not be subjected to further collective punishment by Israeli forces," said Smart.
"The Israeli authorities must adhere to international humanitarian law and human rights standards in any action they take in response to last night's attack, even though that attack demonstrated a disregard for the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.
Abuses by one side, no matter how serious, cannot ever justify abuses by the other side,""said Smart.
I haven't seen anything at Amnesty's site yet.
Update: And then there's the ever-disgusting Jewish Voice for Peace, which somehow manages to turn a school slaughter into an occasion to condemn murdered Jews and even lies about the living ones in the very first paragraph (food, medical supplies and fuel have not been barred from Gaza). These are some very sick people.
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This is also a good way to condemn a terror attack.