Posted on 11/29/2024 4:15:19 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Former Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth called the plight of the 101 hostages held in Gaza one of a number of "utter irrelevancies" following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
"The Israeli government responded to the ICC war-crime charges with the usual diversionary excuses – the need to liberate the hostages, Hamas’s use of human shields, Israel’s democracy and self-defense, supposed ICC antisemitism – all utter irrelevancies," Roth wrote in an op-ed for the British newspaper The Guardian and in a post on X this week.
The post received numerous comments criticizing Roth for dismissing the hostages, who include one-year-old Kfir Bibas and five-year-old Ariel Bibas, as "irrelevant."
Roth led Human Rights Watch for 30 years, during which he was accused of politicizing the once-prestigious human rights NGO and bringing antisemitism into the organization. A 2022 report by NGO Monitor accused Roth of legitimizing antisemitism under the guise of human rights.
In 2006, during the Second Lebanon War, then Anti-Defamation League chairman Abe Foxman accused Roth of engaging in a "classic anti-Semitic stereotype about Jews” after Roth that “an eye for an eye – or, more accurately in this case, twenty eyes for an eye – may have been the morality of some more primitive moment."
In 2009, Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein wrote an Op Ed in the New York Times criticizing the direction the organization he founded had taken under Roth's leadership.
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As usual.
The left has no use for the unwashed masses except as indentured servants or slave labor to provide them with the standard of living they think they’re entitled to.
Wow, I’m glad our leftist loons only consider us as deplorables and not utter irrelevancies
It’s a solution.
He can go rub elbows with his buddies.
https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kenneth-roth
Apparently he is writing a book on defending human rights.
Published by Knopf.
Which is owned by Bertelsmann AG.
Figures, don’t it...
The hostages are finished....they’ll never come out alive! But that doesn’t mean that Israel is in any way wrong to try to get them out.
For months now, “trying to get them out” has been a known impossibility.
Hamascide to the last radical Hamas man, woman and child is the favored and actual course forward.
I guess he’s saying Jewish hostages aren’t human enough to be relevant.
That’ll cover the cost of the burlap sack to stuff him in.
LOL
How many are alive now?
A new guy is going to be hitting the scene come mid Januaryish who is not going to be quite as irrelevant as these two and I suspect he considers the hostages to be very relevant .
And the new guy represents a more significant player in Middle East politics.
Taking hostages was Hama’s single biggest mistake and they have made quite a few really bad ones.
Netanyahu will not relent on Hamas until every single hostage has been returned to Israel.
Unfortunately, returning all the hostages is probably not in the realm of the possible. possible,
President Trump is even more adamant on the issue and he is coming into office looking for people and groups running wild under Biden to make examples of.
This of course means there are a lot of examples to be made and Hamas and Hezbollah are a no brainer in this regard.
It's time for the people in Gaza to say enough is enough and deal with Hamas because a the new guy coming in thinks a lot more is still not enough.
I’ll chip in.
We’re up to $10 already!!!
Just like Starmer in the UK.
In the global community, the value of human life is measured according to politics, on a scale of zero to infinity. The left now will freely admit that Jews have no value whatsoever, consistent with Stalin’s comment that a million deaths are just a statistic.
As long as there is war, Bibi stays in office...
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