It's true that I sometimes support Amnesty International in re matters such as Troy Davis, and the recent Write-A-Thon re global political prisoners, but each time I add my voice, it's on my own inquiries into the facts as best I am able to do. I do not whitewash or act tour de force for Amnesty International, the GOP, Democrats, or any other party(ies).

Today, an email PSA from Amnesty International asks that recipients email USA Secretary of State Rice immediately, asking her to quote " Pressure Israel and Palestinian armed groups to cease attacks on civilians, Demand an end to Israel's disproportional response, Urge Israel to open the crossings to let humanitarian aid in ". Missing is any mention whatsoever of ANY Hamas history or recitation yet another cold attack by Hamas began Israeli actions...too, Amnesty forgot to mention that first, Israel did all it could to notify civilians to evacuate areas prior to military action.   

 

A manifestly accurate representation of the Hamas background can currently be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas ; note after reading that the goal of Hamas is the destruction of ISRAEL...not just as a State created by the United Nations in 1948, as represented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel , but as a religion which is longest known as the antion of Israel, presumptively meaning that even if Israel's State were erased, Jews worldwide would still be targeted for being born that way.

 

I appreciate that Amnesty International has accomplished a lot for many people. But pretending only the USA should be involved, worse, as if it were a puppet-master of autonomous Israel as Hamas and Qaeda purport, creates an undue stigma for ANY USA President...Amnesty should ask the United Nations, which formally chartered Israel as a State in the first place, for more comprehensive treatment of genocide groups like Hamas, rather than treat them as "different than Darfur, as Janjaweed kills Muslims, and Hamas does too but only means to kill Jews, anyway".

 

An organization is only as credible as the limit of mouths out of which it speaks...and a bad reputation could begin to attach to ANYONE Amnesty thereafter seeks to aid. On this one, Amnesty has mis-calculated in hopes of bringing peace...by its own oaths and history, Hamas is dedicated to killing first Jews then anyone else it afterwards feels oats against; to suggest that pretending Israel is a monster and Hamas so sweet to Arabs and non-Arabs, in this case, is like saying "won't we help WWII and Germans by insisting Berlin and Hamburg never be bombed, and ask Auschwitz guards to please not burn Jews, Germans, Gypsies, allied troop prisoners, gays, priests, et al so much any more, or we'll call them names in media and letter campaigns, period".

 

The exterminator jacboot mentality...whever and whenever found...always thrives on submerging manifest populations, then employing and recruiting and spewing propoganda in support of those miscreants so devoid of humanity, they chomp at the bit to have a nice uniform, office, and ability to kill anyone scott-free. Obviously, for the betterment of the Mid East, and the longest term safety from transnational terrorism globally, the better road seems to seek world governments acting together to meet a dynamic too big for any single one, the dynamic of States which shelter terrorists (Pakistan, e.g.), advocate genocide as absolute need or progress shall never come (Darfur, Iran, Syria, e.g.), or both.