RE: Human Rights Record RE: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:16 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Human Rights Record RE: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

> >>      Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries
> >> that abuse human rights?
> >
> >According to Amnesty International, the US and Israel *do* abuse human
> >rights. It is not just countries like Iran, Libya and Syria that make
> >that claim.
> 
> Some very simple questions for you, Jeroen:
> 
> Do you believe that the US's record on human rights is comparable to
> the record of human rights for Iraq, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan,
> Iran, Syria, and the Lybian Arab Jamahirraya?

No. (Simple question, simple answer.)


> If no, please describe why you posted such inflammatory remarks that
> will surely generate much outrage on the part of list-members,  at
> what appears to be the comparison I just described.

I did not post anything inflammatory, John. I said that according to Amnesty
International, the US and Israel *do* abuse human rights. Nowhere in my post
did I compare those two countries' human rights records to the human rights
abuses in countries like Iran, Libya and Syria.

If you read the initial post carefully, you will see it boils down to "Iran,
Libya and Syria claim that the US and Israel abuse human rights; Amnesty
International makes that same claim".


Jeroen

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