"Unknown armed men driving an unmarked car killed Sabah Gurgis while he was on his way to work this morning," police Major Khalid Mahmud said.

A typical case of someone becoming a "collateral" (i.e. unintended or incidental) victim.

I keep wondering if there has ever been a single case of someone becoming a non-collateral victim of Arab terrorists.

When Israel fires at terrorists and causes real collateral damage (i.e. damage that Israel herself wouldn't want, if only, for the sake of those who think that Israel cannot possibly not want to murder someone, PR reasons) HRW does not speak of unfortunate collateral victims.

A man builds a company that bears his name.  Being the entrepreneur, it becomes very sucessful.  He retires and his son takes over.  His son is not the founder, but remembers the lessons of his father and the company prospers.  The son retires and the grandson takes over.  The grandson does not remember his grandfather building the company, the struggle to make a go of it.  He was raised in the lap of luxury, never wanting for anything. With no real struggles to test his mettle.  And he runs the company into the ground.

The above is actually an observed aspect of entrepreneurs.  They call it the 3rd generation curse.  I added the part about the luxury and struggles.

But it also applies to "feel good" organizations.  Created for a valid reason with fire in the belly of the founders to address an injustice, the mission statement has long ago passed into dust where the successors of the founders never had the fire, never saw real injustice, just their percieved whinings of what is fair.

HRW is no exception.  Anyone can call themselves caring.  But most are just selfish louts that are in it for the fame and power.

Robert L. Bernstein, the (presumably Jewish) founder of HRW has recently criticised HRW for losing perspective and criticising Israel all the time instead of all (supposed) violators of "international law".

HRW responded to his criticism by lying that Bernstein demanded that they judge Israel by different standards than others (while Berstein has really demanded that they start using THE SAME standards for Israel as for other countries).

They are a bunch of liars.

I can't imagine that they haven't actually DONE anything to help people, at least in recent history. Whining about Israel (and now the Kurds) doesn't really help.

It helps them moralize their own bigotry and cowardice.