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Sarah Leah Whitson's lies

'Human Rights Watch's Sarah Leah Whitson - she who once raised money in Saudi Arabia for HRW by stressing how much HRW works against Israel - accuses Israel of 'apartheid.' Among other accusations, she came up with this:

Israel justifies its policies on security grounds: it must protect the security of settlers. Israeli authorities indeed have an obligation to safeguard citizens -- all citizens, whatever their ethnicity or religion. But security concerns do not warrant treating every last Palestinian man, woman and child as a threat. And security concerns do not justify systematically separating Palestinians from Jews, with shanties and dirt roads provided for the one, and spacious villas with swimming pools and paved highways provided for the other.

What Whitson didn't tell you is that the spacious villas with swimming pools belong to the 'Palestinians.'

Mrs. Carl has a sister who lives in one of the Jewish towns in Samaria. Today, we reach the town via bypass roads and don't see many 'Palestinian villages.' But in the 1980's and 1990's, to travel to Mrs. Carl's sister, we had to pass through Ramallah and El Bireh, two sister cities just northeast of Jerusalem. As we would drive through them, we would pick out villas and decide which we would like to own. We would also marvel at the fact that the 'Palestinians' lived alongside the road, openly and proudly, while the Jews lived behind security fences and barbed wire.

One of the villas we admired is at the top of this post.

Shiloh Musings lives in a town that is not far from Mrs. Carl's sister. Four years ago, she did two posts (here and here) with pictures of 'Palestinian' mansions in the area. They are stunning. I urge you all to look at them and see what kind of 'shanties' Whitson has in mind.

Now here's a picture of a typical Jewish town in Judea and Samaria.

Note the fence and the simple Levittown-type look-alike homes. No mansions.

So what the heck is Whitson talking about? And what else has she lied about?

By the way, Elder of Ziyon has some more pictures of Arab mansions in Judea and Samaria here.

Labels: Arab mansions, El Bireh, Judea and Samaria, Ramallah, Shilo

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:12 PM