IDF Turns To Human Rights Watch for Help

[oberliner]

As human rights organizations continue to be vilified by an Israeli government still smarting from the effects of the Goldstone Report, the Forward has learned that the Israeli military has been in conversation and even actively working with Human Rights Watch, the international organization that has been often — and loudly — denounced by the Jewish world.

According to both HRW and officials from the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli military re-established a relationship with the organization early last October to help find Palestinian witnesses for its internal military investigation. This was a dramatic turnaround from what had been a complete freezing out of human rights organizations since the start of Operation Cast Lead, the incursion into Gaza in the winter of 2008–2009.

Israel’s January 29 report to the United Nations revealed that the military cooperated with an Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, for the same purpose. The report stated that the army had interviewed more than 100 Palestinian witnesses as part of its ongoing Cast Lead-related investigations. But HRW was not named in the report. The Forward has also confirmed that other human rights groups, including Adalah and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, based in Gaza, have been cooperating with the IDF.

http://forward.com/articles/125416/

[ConsAreLiars]

1. Human rights orgs, including those trashed here by the nutters, will always make their info

to all who ask or it. All others, even those you despise, are doing the same. Facts are facts, What are the odds that the resulting report will say "massacring to avenge zero injuries but a lot of of scares is holy justice"?