is to try and get Israel to submit to it's will (actually the Saudi's "Peace Plan" as if they would know how to create peace when they finance the war in Syria LOL) by using everything BUT the truth when it comes to Israel. Is there any doubt now that obama is not a friend to Israel? Only 31/2 years to go let's hope obama doesn't also ruin America as he tries with Israel. What a putz.

Israel can stay confident that under Barack Obama´s administration nothing wrong will happen to us,we don´t have to worry.

Is that why an overwhelming majority, which is growing every day, of Americans strongly support the State of Israel? Check the polls, kitty cat. Americans love Israel.

The snake in the grass has taken a bite...

dont you people ever accept your shortcomings :)

I guess you are only concern about HR in Israel and bashing them, yet you completely ignoring the massive discrimination in the USA toward undocumented migrants who are being treated like slaves in substandard condition and all the Native who were pushed into tiny filthy reservation camps.... As the old adage goes, the Camel laughed at his friend's ugly hump.... Look in the mirror and see for yourself!

The state department is clearly anti-Semitic. Anyone who criticizes Israel is anti-Semitic. The World is anti-Semitic!!! That is the only logical explanation.

not if they are lies or exagerations, dear.

Spangly, the Jerusalem Post shows an entirely different side of the report. Have a read. I want to see the actual report

www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2012/nea/204363.htm in fact the report is fairly positive about Israel.

Political correctness gone mad; USA is really naive if they think the world does not see through their hypocrisy What of the human rights at Gitmo? and the Human rights at Iraq, and the Human rights at Darfur President of the USA is a madman on the loose cornered going berserk creating Alice in Wonderland upside down world. Muslim yes, but his motive is anarchism

under obama, the world has become increasingly violent and chaotic.

YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS,THEN GIVE YOUR TALKBACK

They didn't blame the Boston bombs on Israel -- yet. That's because reports take time and the bombs happened too late to be included. But thanks for reminding us! The bombers are obviously Mossad agents dressed as Chechen Muslims to confuse the issue. Their mother claims the FBI is behind the bombs, but what would she know?

I hope people realize that the State Department talks about all countries, including its own, when it comes to human rights violations. All those arab countries that many in here complain about also get talked about. The report comes out once a year and points to all countries that abuse the people under its watch. Some in here think its all a report about Israel LOL get real with yourselves

Sorry. That's what happens when the State Department isn't run by AIPAC.

antisemitic one. Taking into consideration the fact, that USA is slowly becoming a "brown" country, meaning the general level of knowledge& education is being lowered daily (because of unequal treatment of minorities in the education system) this type of propaganda will eventually take hold. Full forward to Germany 1933: that's America in the not-so-distant future!Wanna bet? Just go on living and you'll see for yourself.

As Lag is coming up, I think it's fitting to put this report into the bon fires. The US has no right to criticize anyone on how to deal with illegal immigrants, in some cases giving them preferential treatment over their own citizens. There is nothing preventing Arabs for getting jobs in Israel, many of them just aren't willing to work for them.

1. woman get paid 75% of what a man makes at the same job 2. immigrant workers picking apples make 0.75 cents an hour if that, when the federal minimum wage is 7.25 maybe higher. 3. american drones bomb innocent civilians in yemen, pakistan, afghanistan. and even kill american citizens without a trail. 4. illigal immigrants cant send their kids to school, get healthcare, medicare and get sent back to countries where they might die or get discriminated against. like China, Mexico(drug cartels), Iran. 5. the city of NY has instituted stop and frisk, where cops can stop anyone they want without provication and frisk them. 6. america is one of the few places that still has the death penelty,and has not signed or implemented any international agreements on womans and children rights. 7. america has jailed more citizens than all the countries in europe combined, most for drug related crimes. and most are african americans 8. american governers, senetors and congressman believe that a womans body can naturally provent rape, 9. american states are passing new laws that restrict voter rights. 10. NDAA: law allowing the federal government to suspend hebous corpes, signed into law by Obama. 11. for the first 100 years slavery was legal in america. it took until the 1960's to pass the civil rights acts, and end segregation of schools, bathrooms and resturants. that means that america was an aparthid state for its first 200 years. 12. Gays, cant get married, or get benefits that hetrosexual partners get. point is that i love america, but everycountry has its own issues, and that i would rather live in israel than any other middle eastern country.

justice to the elder marathon terrorist? Its not for the faint of heart, believe me. These pompous pricks who wrote this for the state department are hypocrites. Hello Israel is dealing with a population 1000000x more frequent than the marathon terrorists. what do you expect sugar in your latte mr. terrorist? Give me a break. Does Israle give reports about the US and how the US is handling its domestic matters? We need to mind our business, wow. this is ridiulous.

or just another mindless twit employed by Iran our enemy?

"Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.. there were reports that some government officials employed them .. LGBT persons, particularly gay men, were subject to abuse and harassment by police on “moral” grounds." In July 2011 police took Fevziye Cengiz into custody because she did not have her identification card while at a nightclub with her husband in Izmir. Cengiz claimed abuse while in custody; the officers subsequently filed a countercomplaint, and in September 2011 prosecutors charged Cengiz with “injuring and insulting a civil servant.” and it goes on and on....

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper

If Israel is labeled as "Israel and The Occupied Territories" shouldn't the UK be labeled "England and the Occupied Territories" or "United Kingdom and Occupied Ireland"?

US State Department speaks ?? . Interesting . Israel has never done anything like the Kent State University Massacre . Never . ..........4 innocent kids murdered for no reason by the Military . . The US State Department has no right to talk about human rights.

www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2012/nea/204363.htm in fact the report is fairly positive about Israel.

Who bet for you that this is the truth? Arabs in Israel have equal right, live better than most of the Jews because they evade to pay real taxes. Arabs can go and visit Arab states and Jews not. 3% of Israelis are denied visa to the US by the Americans, 99% of them are Arabs! Illegal immigrants can infiltrate the US, but Israel should let those Muslims to cover all of Israel; If the US wants suicide bombers she can take them to Nevada. Etc.

Israel is still in a state of War with the Arabs and the Peace Treaty with Eygpt Tenuous.Stringent Security requires overriding peace time Human Rights Standards as many Jihadists and Ba'ath Allied Palestinians live in the areas of dispute who refuse to accept Jewish Security Structures and are willing to attack and kill Jewish civilians and kidnap soldiers.The Jewish State is Obligated to Defend its People.