What About Israel's Human Rights

Human rights groups, including the International Committee for the Red Cross, and the UN are busy playing their moral equivalence games.

They're busy equating Palestinian terrorist attacks with Israel's inalienable right to defend itself from attack by going after those terrorists.

From the UN:

The U.N. Human Rights Council is to hold an emergency session next Wednesday to examine alleged violations in Gaza after Israel closed border crossings and carried out attacks on the strip, a U.N. source said on Friday.

The special one-day session, requested by Arab and Muslim countries, is the third on the Palestine issue since the 47-member state forum was set up in June 2006.

The Arab-Muslim request called for action on "human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the recent ones in occupied Gaza and the West Bank town of Nablus", according to a copy obtained by Reuters.

But for the incessant terrorist attacks - more than 3,000 since 2005, and more than 200 since January, Israel would not need to shut its border with Gaza nor take military action against Hamas and other terrorist groups operating in Gaza. That gets ignored, as the Arabs and other morally bankrupt types equate Israel's self defense with terrorists' rights to attack Israel.

The Palestinians themselves are playing this to the hilt. They're repeatedly using the term massacre to describe a gunfight that Hamas initiated and lost. Abbas claims that Israel's airstrikes are brutal, ignoring the terrorist attacks on Israel. As always, Abbas gives Palestinian terrorism a complete pass.