I long ago gave up on Amnesty International, FFT, HRW et al. These organisations are not witnesses of truth and should be treated accordingly. It is truly worrying how people will accept the narrative of an NGO staffed by underwater basket weaving graduates over much more credible sources, and what is even more worrying is the NGOS know this and capitalise on it. I deal with humanitarian and country reports on a daily basis, and for balance I am obliged to read the tosh these people peddle, it's really difficult to keep a straight face sometimes...
Both organizations have been bought by Qatari money, which incidentally also funds Islamist terrorism of Hamas and others. Ken Roth is profits to the tune of over a million dollar la a year from being a token Jew fronting Islamist anti-Israel propaganda.
How very unsurprising that Amnesty International should make this judgement - they do have form in defending terrorists as anyone from Northern Ireland knows only too well. They never said boo to terrorist atrocities but as soon as some IRA “soldiers” ran into the SAS they were all over it like a rash.
Feels like the world has gone mad. While some activists parrot and believe this stuff, I do think most people look at these types of claims and think they’re bollocks. They just don’t shout that it’s bollocks or project a big sign saying as much on parliament green. I’m convinced there’s a very large but quiet level of disagreement out there, in a very British fashion.
There certainly is. Heartily sick of lies and inversion of facts. The October 7th pogram of atrocities is the only genocide in very recent history. And how that genocide has revealed and exposed such over financed horrors as the UN, UNIFIL, Red Cross and Amnesty is something that needs further action.
For me, the page count (35) gave its sloppiness away. Look at proper reports—they run into hundreds if not thousands of pages for relatively small things. Also, most genocides are proved with reference to records of orders and policies of the genociders: genocide needs a bureaucracy to deliver it, and bureaucracies can’t run without records. I’m looking forward to Israel publishing Hamas’ records.
One would hope that the ICC judges will actually follow the law when it comes to trial and indeed in pre-trial reviews, the weakness of the case may lead to it being abandoned. Proof of intent by the IDF to destroy Gazan Palestinians is going to have to be proved, beyond political rhetoric.
ICC judges won’t. Like the UN general assembly the numbers are on the side of anti-Israel propagandists. It’s a political body, not a law body. The word Court is meaningless.
As others have noted, AI is hardly unbiased. Its leader, Ken Roth, is a longtime Israel-hater, and the organization itself has for years been laser-focused on trashing the Jewish state and exculpating Hamas.
naively in this cesspit of hate in which we find ourselves , that anyone with any intelligence would read the first line and think “ Well this is a load of bollocks”
Separately, I see folk like Albanese as being infiltrating agents, perverting their hosting NGOs to their masters’ purposes. I suspect the real purpose of all this is to blur the moral distinction between democracies and dictatorships by creating a narrative that they all have the same flaws (while hiding the huge difference in virtues). Without self-commitment societies won’t have the morale to withstand attack.
I long ago gave up on Amnesty International, FFT, HRW et al. These organisations are not witnesses of truth and should be treated accordingly. It is truly worrying how people will accept the narrative of an NGO staffed by underwater basket weaving graduates over much more credible sources, and what is even more worrying is the NGOS know this and capitalise on it. I deal with humanitarian and country reports on a daily basis, and for balance I am obliged to read the tosh these people peddle, it's really difficult to keep a straight face sometimes...
Throw Doctors Without Borders into the same mix.
Thank you, Andrew. Amnesty is probably also trying to keep up with Human Rights Watch that a few months ago put out a similar report.
Both organizations have been bought by Qatari money, which incidentally also funds Islamist terrorism of Hamas and others. Ken Roth is profits to the tune of over a million dollar la a year from being a token Jew fronting Islamist anti-Israel propaganda.
How very unsurprising that Amnesty International should make this judgement - they do have form in defending terrorists as anyone from Northern Ireland knows only too well. They never said boo to terrorist atrocities but as soon as some IRA “soldiers” ran into the SAS they were all over it like a rash.
Feels like the world has gone mad. While some activists parrot and believe this stuff, I do think most people look at these types of claims and think they’re bollocks. They just don’t shout that it’s bollocks or project a big sign saying as much on parliament green. I’m convinced there’s a very large but quiet level of disagreement out there, in a very British fashion.
There certainly is. Heartily sick of lies and inversion of facts. The October 7th pogram of atrocities is the only genocide in very recent history. And how that genocide has revealed and exposed such over financed horrors as the UN, UNIFIL, Red Cross and Amnesty is something that needs further action.
For me, the page count (35) gave its sloppiness away. Look at proper reports—they run into hundreds if not thousands of pages for relatively small things. Also, most genocides are proved with reference to records of orders and policies of the genociders: genocide needs a bureaucracy to deliver it, and bureaucracies can’t run without records. I’m looking forward to Israel publishing Hamas’ records.
One would hope that the ICC judges will actually follow the law when it comes to trial and indeed in pre-trial reviews, the weakness of the case may lead to it being abandoned. Proof of intent by the IDF to destroy Gazan Palestinians is going to have to be proved, beyond political rhetoric.
ICC judges won’t. Like the UN general assembly the numbers are on the side of anti-Israel propagandists. It’s a political body, not a law body. The word Court is meaningless.
I would be surprised if Joanna Korner did not do her job properly. I have no knowledge of the others.
As others have noted, AI is hardly unbiased. Its leader, Ken Roth, is a longtime Israel-hater, and the organization itself has for years been laser-focused on trashing the Jewish state and exculpating Hamas.
Sadly, the Israeli and IDF seems to have a very poor public affairs function.
Thnaks Andrew for digging out the facts. Always a pleasure to read your posts.
All I can say is "He who watchers of Israel, never slumbers nor sleeps". And the bd guys won't win.
I would hope, probably
naively in this cesspit of hate in which we find ourselves , that anyone with any intelligence would read the first line and think “ Well this is a load of bollocks”
Separately, I see folk like Albanese as being infiltrating agents, perverting their hosting NGOs to their masters’ purposes. I suspect the real purpose of all this is to blur the moral distinction between democracies and dictatorships by creating a narrative that they all have the same flaws (while hiding the huge difference in virtues). Without self-commitment societies won’t have the morale to withstand attack.