A couple of questions concerning Hermit's source:
1) Why is it only their objective to inform the ISRAELI public and
policymakers of their conclusions? Why is it not to inform everyone
concerned?
2) Responsibility is characterized by a 'for-to' structure; one is
responsible FOR something, TO someone. This being the case, why
are only Palestinian human rights violations (by which I understand
violations of Palestinian's civil/human rights, and most probably
particularly those civil/human rights violations purportedly perpetrated
by Israelis) being perused? Why are they not studying the violations of
the civil/human rights of ALL of the people in the area, Palestinian or
Israeli, and irrespective of the perpetrator, but characterizing them
according to a for-to structure? This would break down into four
categories: violations perpetrated upon Palestinians by Israelis, those
perpetrated upon Palestinians by other Palestinians, those perpetrated
upon Israelis by Palestinians, and those perpetrated upon Israelis by
other Israelis. The large report with which Rhinocerous so kindly
graced us, while focused specifically upon violations to Palestinians
who collaborate with Israelis (and that is its strength, as that was
precisely the issue of contention), does indeed break down the list of
various perpetrators of that violence. They are overwhelmingly, of
course, other Palestinians.
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