No Moral High Ground Here
As the world yawns:
Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers committed "serious human rights abuses" against the Palestinians in 2006, mostly with impunity, Amnesty International said in its annual report issued Wednesday.
If you're keeping score:
In the Palestinian territories, Israeli air and artillery strikes killed some 650 people, half of them unarmed civilians and including some 120 children, "a three-fold increase compared with 2005."
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Palestinian militant groups killed 21 Israeli civilians, including one child, half the figure of the previous year and the lowest since the intifada flared in September 2000.
But rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel saw a "significant increase" compared with the previous year and killed two civilians.
And during the month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer, Amnesty accused both Israel and Hezbollah of conducting "indiscriminate" attacks on civilians:
[B]oth Hezbollah and Israel committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes.
So, who's the new American Idol, anyway?
