Terrorists' Rights vs Israeli Lives

Evelyn Gordon makes the case for deportations and thoroughly exposes the shocking hypocrisy of the “human rights” groups who oppose them.

The across-the-board condemnation by human rights organizations and Western governments of last week's High Court of Justice ruling on "assigned residence" speaks volumes about these groups' hypocrisy and about their values.

The court ruled that two Palestinians who actively aided a relative's terrorist activity could be relocated from the West Bank to Gaza for a two-year period. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, echoed by several Western governments, promptly termed this a violation of international law.

Amnesty International, and some Israeli human-rights groups, went even further, charging that it was "a war crime under both the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court." Since all these groups are presumably familiar with the contents of the Fourth Geneva Convention, such responses require a shocking level of hypocrisy because Article 78 of the convention, on which the court based its ruling, explicitly permits such relocations. [Read More]