If you visit the Human Rights Watch web site the first thing you see is Kofi Annan. The site tagline is “Defending Human Rights Worldwide.” It all appears nice but the tagline is false and Kofi Annan as the lead story demonstrates the organizations complete hypocrisy.

HRW also has stories about CIA abuse based on a EU report. Did Human Rights Watch check out the facts, substantiate the story themselves? Unlikely.

Another sub-Headline is, “U.S. Abortion Regulations Undermine Women’s Right to Choose.” Isn’t this odd, an organization claiming to “defend human rights” yet they don’t defend unborn children?

Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has accused Israel’s military of “indiscriminate warfare” and “a disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians.” Another set of facts HRW failed to corroborate.

Three Hezbollah prisoners in Israel are singing to their captures and the story is nothing new but it’s quite enlightening. We know terrorists killed innocent men, women and children and we also know they use people as “human shields.”

During the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, started by Hezbollah this summer, reports of civilian death, indiscriminate Israeli bombing, and collateral damage were daily fodder for the press. Far less news reports death of civilians in Israel.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Reuven Erlich of Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center is now providing videotaped interviews all substantiated by Hezbollah documents and aerial photography. To see video and the full report visit American Jewish Congress.

Here are some examples of “human shield” activity by Hezbollah and the prisoners:

• Mohammad Abd al-Hamid Srour moved missiles across southern Lebanon under cover of a white flag.
• Hussein Ali Mahmoud Suleiman used the porch of a private home to fire rockets.
• Maher Hassan Mahmoud Kourani dressed in civilian clothes, hid his Kalashnikov in a tote bag and stored anti-aircraft missiles in the back of a green unmarked Volvo.

Photographs and other evidence show Hezbollah’s headquarters in Aita al-Shaab. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s office and home are in a densely built neighborhood of Beirut. In the town of Qana an arms warehouse can be seen adjacent to a mosque. There are photographs of rockets in the back seats of cars, missile launchers adjacent to farmhouses, and storage bunkers hidden beneath homes.

Hezbollah operatives “live in their houses, in their schools, in their churches, in their fields, in their farms and in their factories,” claim the terrorist cleric and leader Hassan Nasrallah. The fact is Hezbollah owns much of the infrastructure and property that is “civilian.”

While Human Rights Watch and news networks like CNN are quick to point the finger at Israel for atrocities and provide video footage of bombed sites and dead civilians, time is allowing the facts to surface. The facts demonstrate that prejudice of certain groups and organizations to place blame on democratic societies defending themselves against terrorist regimes that place no value on human life or suffering.