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shira

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Wed May-25-11 04:59 PM
Response to Reply #181

184. HR organizations criticize Sudan, Egypt and Syria but not as much as Israel, why?

Edited on Wed May-25-11 05:07 PM by shira

It's not just the media and governments.

If it's oil, let's agree that the Oil Lobby is far more effective than the Israel Lobby - even WRT their influence on human rights organizations who disproportionately focus more on Israel than they do on the planet's absolute worst violators.

Here's an article from a well known human rights advocate I personally know in the Boston area...
http://www.iabolish.org/images/stories/why_israel_and_not_sudan_is_singled_out.pdf

It's not the media and governments but also human rights organizations.

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