"Palestinian security services continued to operate with impunity, despite recurring cases of torture, arbitrary arrests, and prolonged detention without charge or trial. An overwhelmed judiciary was further weakened by repeated executive branch interference in its work. Critics of these and other Palestinian Authority (P.A.) abuses were frequently subject to harassment, arrest, and in some instances, violent attacks. Military and state security courts issued death sentences after grossly unfair trials, which were not subject to appeal."

"Our goals are to:

* Strengthen democratic values,
* Reduce poverty and injustice,
* Promote international cooperation and
* Advance human achievement
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" Ford Foundation, which he had founded with his father seven years earlier.
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"The Ford Foundation was founded in 1936 with grants from Henry Ford and his son Edsel Ford"

"Edsel Ford, the only son of Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford, created the foundation in 1936 " http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
The Ford Foundation was chartered on January 15 th, 1936 by Edsel Ford and two Ford Motor Company executives" http://www.fordfound.org/about/history.cfm
"The Ford Foundation, established by Edsel Ford in 1936 " http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/th...
"Edsel was instrumental in the creation of the Ford Foundation in 1936." http://www.michmarkers.com/startup.asp?startpage=S04...

Roth, however, volunteers a test of his organization's reliability when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely Human Rights Watch's behavior at the UN's infamous "anti-racism" conference held in Durban, South Africa shortly before 9/11. If the organization's actions were assailable there, he says, it would make "it easy to reject the objectivity of Human Rights Watch reports on Israeli conduct

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As a representative of the IAJLJ, I was a member of the caucus of international human rights nongovernmental organizations. Human Rights Watch, along with others such as Amnesty International and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (renamed Human Rights First), was also a member of this caucus. Together we had a right to vote on the final NGO document, and hours before the last session gathered together to discuss our position.

The draft included egregious statements equating Zionism with racism, and alleging that Israel is an "apartheid" state guilty of "genocide and ethnic cleansing designed to ensure a Jewish state."

As we arrived at our meeting the chief Durban representative of Human Rights Watch, advocacy director Reed Brody, publicly announced that as a representative of a Jewish group I was unwelcome and could not attend. The views of a Jewish organization, he explained, would not be objective and the decision on how to vote had to be taken in our absence. Not a single one of the other international NGOs objected.

THE HUMAN Rights Watch role at Durban? To inhibit Jewish lawyers and jurists from being fairly represented or defended

‏¹http://www.hagada.org.il/hagada/html/modules.php?nam...

According to a well-known anecdote, anthropologists studying "primitives" who supposedly held certain superstitious beliefs (that they descend from a fish or from a bird, for example) asked them directly whether they "really" believed such things. They answered: "Of course not - we're not stupid! But I was told that some of our ancestors actually did believe that." In short, they transferred their belief onto another.

We do the same thing with our children by going through the ritual of Santa Claus. Since our children (are supposed to) believe in him and we do not want to disappoint them, they pretend to believe so as not to disappoint us by puncturing our belief in their naivety (and to get the presents, of course). Isn't this also the usual excuse of the mythical crooked politician who turns honest? "I cannot disappoint the ordinary people who believe in me." Furthermore, this need to find another who "really believes" is also what propels us to stigmatize the Other as a (religious or ethnic) "fundamentalist." In an uncanny way, some beliefs always seem to function "at a distance." In order for the belief to function, there has to be some ultimate guarantor of it, and yet this guarantor is always deferred, displaced, and never present in persona. The point, of course, is that this other subject who directly believes does not need to actually exist for the belief to be operative: It is enough precisely to presuppose his existence, i.e. to believe in it, either in the guise of the primitive Other or in the guise of the impersonal "one" ("one believes...").