Article omits the obsessive bias of Human Rights Watch

Sent November 15, 2024 to the MetroWest Daily News

Dear Editor:

The article "Group says Israel committed war crimes" (November 15) omits the fact that the group is fanatically hostile to Israel and its founder long ago blasted Human Rights Watch for betraying its principles and its mission.

The fact is that, despite the nature of the terrorist enemies against which Israel is currently fighting an existential war on seven fronts, has arguably gone beyond what any other state has in its compliance with international law.

I do not know of any other country that has transferred massive amounts of humanitarian assistance to its enemy during a war that enemy started. Israel has continued to do that even though Hamas has stolen most of the aid and many Israelis have paid with their lives.

Israel has also done something no other army has ever done: tell its enemy where it's going to attack, thus enabling civilians to get out of harms way. I just today saw a video of a crowd in Beirut watching Israel demolish a nearby building containing a terrorist base. They know Israel is very careful when it strikes terrorist targets and they're safe even if they're relatively close to it.

If Human Rights Watch was true to its mandate, it would be condemning the war crimes of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and all the other Iranian terror proxies as well as Iran itself and praising Israel for the way it is fighting the multi-front war that was forced on it.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein

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