NY Sun editorial condemns HRW for using anniversary of Hizbullah kidnappings as oppourtunity to slam Israel, engage in typical 'moral equivalence'
In a July 12 editorial, the New York Sun slams Human Rights Watch for exploiting the 1-year anniversary of Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers as an opportunity to criticize Israel:
"… Human Rights Watch, went so far as to mark the anniversary of the capture of Goldwasser and Regev with a press release criticizing Israel for responding to the hostage taking with what Human Rights Watch charged were ‘arbitrary arrests.’ Human Rights Watch admonished Israel by asserting that ‘illegality by one side does not justify illegality by the other,’ an all too typical example of moral equivalence…"
