Misguided

Israel is slammed by Amnesty International for its construction of a security barrier that has proven its worth by reducing the number of terrorist attacks through those areas where the barrier has been completed.

Instead of focusing on the terrorists who perpetrate such attacks, they focus on the tactics used to defend a nation against the existential threat posed by terrorists hell bent on the destruction of a civil society.

Amnesty International doesn't hold back on the US either. However, the US State Department does provide a nice retort for a change:

[State Department spokesman Sean McCormack] went on to point out Amnesty’s role in documenting rights abuses during the 24 years of Saddam’s rule before he was deposed by the Americans in 2003 and later captured and charged with crimes against humanity.

“But when it came time to put Saddam Hussein on trial, which is happening right now, they (Amnesty) are absent. They’ve done zero, zip, nothing, to assist in those efforts,” McCormack said.

“So in terms of where they might focus some of their efforts, I would just offer the humble suggestion that they might follow through in actually assisting with or providing some support to this trial for what they acknowledge is one of the great human rights abusers of recent times.”

For all those years of cataloguing Saddam's heinous treatment of Shi'a, Kurds, and the Iraqi people in general, AI should be welcoming the trial and public display of the volumns of evidence against the former regime.

Instead, it is sitting on its hands and castigating the US, which seems to be mostly for the benefit of fundraising and not actually improving human rights worldwide.