Typical UN and Media Hypocrisy When Palestinian Ayman Samara Dies in Palestinian Prison

Khaled Abu Toameh writes that Palestinians' Double-Standards Exposed Again:

Six days after Arafat Jaradat was found dead in Israel's Megiddo Prison, another detainee died in a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho.

Jaradat's death triggered widespread condemnations not only from Palestinians but also from international human rights organizations and the United Nations.

Toameh recounts the expected reaction --

• Robert Serry, the UN Middle East peace envoy announced:
  

  The United Nations expects an independent and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Mr Jaradat's death, the results of which should be made public as soon as possible.
  

Pro-Palestinian Activists Ignore Palestinian Authority and Hamas Human Rights Violations

That may be something of a revelation to the self-proclaimed human rights activists who seem to think that helping Palestinian Arabs means condemning Israel and--ideally in front of as many cameras as possible.

The problem of course is that those who attack and condemn Israel, claiming to be doing so in the interests of the Palestinian Arabs, in fact demonstrate precious little concern for Arabs.

Khaled Abu Toameh notes that pro-Palestinian activists ignore the human rights violations and abuses Palestinian Arabs suffer under Abbas and Hamas: