Reply #7: In contrast...

[pelsar]

sometimes the double standard is simple "screaming so loud" its almost impossible to miss:

haartez Jan 12, Week's End section page B3: title: The Battle Within by Avi Issacharoff
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812598.html

the article is about the the shooting/killing/kidnapping within Gaza, its about fatah members being hospitalized in Ashkelon, its about houses being blown up with families inside (50RPGs being launched at one house), keeping ambulances from reaching the scenes, its about pouring acid on 16yr old kids...

Five Palestinians, all Fatah members, are hospitalized at Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center. Four have leg injuries. The fifth is in intensive care, in a coma. The Hamas men who attacked Gharib's house were responsible. The fifth was inside the house at the time. The victims' descriptions resemble those of Third World executions

G., a member of Gharib's family, joined one of the processions of unarmed civilians that was organized in an attempt to create a human barrier between the Hamas gunmen and the house. When the gunmen opened fire at the marchers, wounding dozens, he managed to escape into the surrounded building. "I went in and went upstairs, where everyone was. There were about 50 people there, in two rooms. The firing continued, and after each explosion another part of the wall or the ceiling fell," G. related.

guess HRW and every other journalist and UN official in Gaza kinda missed those events......wonder why? (so much for impartiality)

and its about contrasting cultures and the inability of human rights organizations/journalists/psedo "progressives" to write about it
Who behaves like that? Even the Israelis who arrest a suicide bomber treat him with respect compared to what Hamas did to Gharib."