Soccer Dad

No libel too incredible

About two weeks ago pro-terror advocate, Helena Cobban referred to Israel using both Nazism and Apartheid as comparisons for Israel.

She also described the valid criticism of Human Rights Watch's soliciting contributions from Saudi Arabia by advertising that group's condemnations of Israel as racist.

With her propensity to throw around epithets to condemn Israel and its supporters, you might not be surprised to learn that she doesn't actually bother to check her facts before judging and convicting Israel. Now she takes a Ma'an "news" report to conclude that Israel is not allowing Gazans to bury their dead from the war against Hamas earlier this year.

But as Elder of Ziyon has shown, this list is bogus.

It sounds like the Gaza MoH and Ma'an are trying to pad the list of "martyrs" by counting dozens of people twice. Perhaps this is how the number of "martyrs" has gone up by nearly 200 since the war ended (the number who succumbed to injuries since the PCHR and PMoH lists were compiled that were reported in the Arabic press has been extremely low; I don't think I have seen more than five.)

Many of those listed as being missing have already been counted among the dead. It's possible that there are still some missing Gazans, but many on the "missing" list were already counted as dead.

Once again, Helena Cobban has shown that there's no libel too incredible not to be believed. Clearly she is offended not by any action that Israel has taken , but by Israel's existence. No wonder she views murderers like Khaled Mesha'al with such sympathy.