By blatantly ignoring the findings of human rights abuses against Palestinians as the United States did this week upon the release of a seminal report by Amnesty International, Washington is ultimately emboldening bad behaviour while further entrenching itself in Middle East security crises. Here’s why. Amnesty’s latest assessment on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinaians, deemed a “crime of apartheid,” stems from a five-year analysis of Israeli civilian and military law. The organisation reached the same conclusion as Human Rights Watch and Israel’s own main human rights organisation, B’Tsel…