ANTI-ISRAEL OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH STATEMENT OF SANTIAGO In recent weeks there have been a number of disturbing revelations about Human Rights Watch (HRW) and staff members involved in the work of the organization in Israel.
As expected, Human Rights Watch and many followers of the group have ignored all these revelations and criticized as politically motivated.
And it has not changed their tactics when it was discovered that an important member of staff, the "military analyst" HRW, Marc Garlasco, who has published more than a few damning statements about Israel, seems consumed by his fascination with military memorabilia Nazi.
In fact, it seems that we must assume that the obsession with Garlasco by Nazi military memorabilia somehow enhances or represents a plus on their professional experience.
One thing is certain: being an avid collector of Nazi medals does not make anyone a military analyst - So what exactly are the qualifications of Garlasco?
According to information provided on the website of HRW, Garlasco has a BA in management from St. John's University and an MA in International Relations at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
Before joining HRW, he worked as an intelligence analyst on Iraq at the Pentagon. Obviously, it seems very clear that describes all this to Garlasco for his work on HRW, which "specializes in the assessment of battle damage, military operations and interrogations."
In this context, it is also very revealing to examine a letter written by the Associate Director of HRW, Carroll Bogert, protesting the publication of news about the controversy surrounding Garlasco in the British newspaper The Guardian.
Bogert stated in this letter that "[t] he fact that Marc Garlasco was quoted as saying 19 times since he joined Human Rights Watch, six years ago ... testifies to his authority as a military expert."
Really? Is it that easy to become an expert military?
But definitely worth reading the entire letter, as it provides an excellent illustration of the rigid ideological stance of the HRW. Consider your line of "argument":
The fact that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is being lavished on ad hominem attacks against him [ie against Garlasco] should have been a warning, not a green light for publication. Allegations of pro-Nazi sympathies are part of a smear campaign against NGOs that criticize the conduct of Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza offensive. "
Undoubtedly, in this way echoes the favorite slogans of the haters (this time "semi-professionals") of Israel, in short, what comes from the Israeli government, or any group or individual who can be labeled as "pro-Israel "should be put aside as" propaganda. " After
Bogert see how critical the behavior of the IDF during the recent campaign in Gaza - which of course described as an "offensive" despite the fact that it came after some 3,000 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza only 2008 - it is very interesting to see how he once explained himself Garlasco the high death toll civilians in Afghanistan. Some
Garlasco statements have been published on several blogs, highlighting the explanation in an interview with CBS:
"I do not think people really appreciate the efforts made by the U.S. military to sure you are not killing civilians, "said Garlasco.
"If as much care being taken, why do they kill so many civilians?" Asks the interviewer.
"Because the Taliban are violating international law," said Garlasco, "and because the U.S. simply do not have enough troops on the ground. The Taliban use shield the people's houses. And they have a small number of troops on the ground. And sometimes the only thing you can do is throw bombs. "
all sounds the same dilemmas facing the Israeli army in Gaza, is not it?
So why Garlasco one hand, shows much sympathy for the difficult situation facing U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and on the other, so little understanding of the challenges facing the IDF to try to defend the south of Israel against the threat of rockets from Gaza?
This question becomes even more difficult to answer if we look the entire interview for CBS, it sheds much more light on what really Garlasco to the Pentagon: The Pentagon
, Garlasco, was a head coach of the high-value targets at the beginning of the Iraq war. It had 60 minutes to assess how many civilians might die in the attacks on each high-value target - for example Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership. "Our numbers were top 30. For example, if you go for Saddam Hussein. If you're going to kill up to 29 people [in addition] in an attack on Saddam Hussein, is not a problem, "said Garlasco. "But once that could kill at least 30, actually had to talk to a partner of Bush or Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. " Garlasco said that before the invasion of Iraq recommended 50 air strikes aimed at high-value targets such as Iraqi authorities. However, says none of the objectives of the list was actually murdered. Instead, he says, "a couple of hundreds of civilians, at least, were killed."
In other words, in his previous job to HRW, Garlasco contributed to the unnecessary deaths of "a couple of hundred civilians at least", and in his current job goes after those who face the same difficult task in a wars that will inevitably cost lives of innocent civilians.
Author: Petra Marquardt-Bigman - Jerusalem Post BlogCentral
Translation: José Antonio Safed, Tzfat
Annex from Israel News:
From the New York Times we learn that Marc Garlasco, the lover of the SS and jackets other Nazi memorabilia has been suspended from his duties as a researcher at Human Rights Watch:
This group, Human Rights Watch, had initially given his full support to the analyst, Marc Garlasco, when news of his interests came to light public last week. On the evening of Monday, the group changed its mind and suspended him with pay, "pending an investigation," said Carroll Bogert, associate director of the group.
"We have doubts about whether we know all we need to know [him]," he said.
What else may need to know? What could be worse? Garlasco wrote (as an amateur Nazi memorabilia in a web of the topic):
"! It's so cool! ! The leather jacket of the SS back to me in cold blood so cool! "
can be sure that eventually you will find that Garlasco fits perfectly (or continued estándolo) to investigate the war crimes of the Zionist war criminals. He is exactly what is needed by HRW, is not it?
SOURCE: DEFENSE AND INFORMATION