Human Rights Watch has made common cause with the terror enablers of the International Solidarity Movement and other far-left Israel-hating groups, calling for Caterpillar to stop selling to Israel.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch have called on U.S. heavy equipment maker Caterpillar to stop selling heavy bulldozers to Israel because they are used to destroy Palestinian homes.

The New York-based rights group said the bulldozers, which are armoured by Israel, were the army’s “primary weapon” to raze Palestinian houses, destroy agriculture and ruin infrastructure such as sewage pipes and roads.

“Caterpillar betrays its stated values when it sells bulldozers to Israel knowing they are being used to illegally destroy Palestinian homes,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East Director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Until Israel stops these practices, Caterpillar’s continued sales will make the company complicit in human rights abuses.”

Not a word from Human Rights Watch about the smuggling tunnels that are used to bring weapons and contraband into the Palestinian areas, and often have entrances concealed in these “innocent” Palestinian homes. But Human Rights Watch has given up all pretense of impartiality; their credibility is on the same level as these fine specimens, protesting against Caterpillar for the same reason in April 2004:

By the way, it doesn’t look like Caterpillar is going to knuckle under to this left-wing extortion any time soon:

Caterpillar has said its sales to Israel comply with U.S. law and are conducted through Washington’s Foreign Military Sales Program.

At an April 14 meeting, 96 percent of shareholders backed the company’s position that it cannot enforce how its equipment is used.

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