Paul Thabet’s Reviews > Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History > Status Update

Chris Hedges on the human rights violations: "I had seen children shot in other conflicts I have covered, but I had never watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport"

On the legality of the legal system setup by (illegal) settlers to serve the (illegal) settlers, he adds: "When the (Israeli) courts are dealing with purely Israeli questions, like gay rights, I admire their rulings. But when it comes to the Palestinians, these same people seem to be totally schizophrenic"

"Erecting a wall that inflicts massive injury on Palestinians in order to protect illegal settlements would mean compounding one injustice with another"

Amnesty further notes: "Hundreds of thousands of olive, citrus, almond, date and other trees have been uprooted. The trees and orchards uprooted constituted a source, and in many cases the only source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people. Many had invested their savings to develop and improve their family farms with costly greenhouses and irrigation networks, only to see them destroyed by IDF bulldozers.

On the most moral army that we fund with our tax money, Finkelstein wrote: Human Rights Watch found that "many of the civilian deaths" amounted to "unlawful and willful killings" by the IDF - for example, "Kamal Zgheir, a fifty-seven-year-old wheelchair-bound man who was shot and run over by a tank on a major road outside Jenin refugee camp.

The poisoning of public discourse on human rights by apologists for Israel is not confined to the United States. The most appealing and shameful example is Germany.