Paraphrasing King Lear's agonizing insight How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! Away, away!Robert Bernstein has a similar reaction with one of his rebellious, thankless children, Human Rights Watch, an organization he founded and ran for twenty years. Establishedto pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.As a result he is finally telling his thankless child "away! away!" in a very public way--announcing his disappointment in an op-ed in the New York Times , a major outlet of his group. As a founder of Human Rights Watch and its active chairman for 20 years, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group's critics.And what did his baby, lovingly brought about with the best of intentions, do that caused the father to so publicly disavow it? ...(Read Full Post)