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Travesty International
[Canadian Jewish News] Editorial - Last week, the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report on the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. The document, entitled "Operation 'Cast Lead': 22 Days of Death and Destruction," almost in its entirety targets Israel. Of the 117 pages in the report, 11 pages discuss the Palestinians' role in the conflagration. In a breathtaking dismissive sweep that typifies the agency's long-standing approach to Israel, the report states: "Amnesty International has seen no evidence that rockets were launched from residential houses or buildings [in Gaza] while civilians were in these buildings." But there can be no denying the plain, simple truth of deliberately launching rockets at men, women and children in their homes, schools, daycare centers and synagogues. The IDF responded to the report: "We find it both questionable and objectionable that a well-respected and ostensibly objective international organization such as Amnesty could produce a report on Operation Cast Lead without properly recognizing the unbearable reality of nine years of incessant and indiscriminate rocket fire on the citizens of Israel. The slant of their report indicates that the organization succumbed to the manipulations of the Hamas terror organization." The war to uproot the terrorists and their infrastructure was justified and necessary. Amnesty so unfairly, so determinedly targets Israel that it makes of their report an international travesty.