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June 30, 2006
Extreme Even for the UN
New UN rights body targets Israel
The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session.The resolution, which was sponsored by Islamic countries, was passed by a vote of 29-12, with five abstentions. It effectively revives a practice of the UN's dissolved Human Rights Commission, which also reviewed alleged Israeli abuses every time it met.
Israel protested Friday's vote, calling it a perpetuation of "the old infamous habits" of the widely discredited commission.
The resolution requires UN investigators to report at each council session "on the Israeli human rights violations in occupied Palestine."
... Besides Arab and other Muslim countries, "yes" votes were cast by African nations, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia and Sri Lanka. Canada and European Union members on the council voted against it.
Who knew that Mexico felt that way about Israel? Well, presumably Mark in Mexico might have. But besides him.
Alcibiades | 06/30/06 at 07:21 PM | Categories: - Our NGO Masters
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UN=United Nutters. I support Israel!!!
But I thought that by definition Israel was incapable of human right abuses. So why be so shy about having (absolutely nothing at all, ever) investigated?
Or are you worried that just maybe the odd indiscriminate killing of civilians might have been spotted by the outside world? Don't worry, guys: it's a total defence that "The other nasty people are much much worse than us so our war crimes don't count, nyah!"
The point is not that Israel never has any human rights abuses, though I would bet it has significantly less than any other country on that Council voting to report on Israel at every meeting. There is not a country on earth that does not have some human rights abuses somewhere - especially if given that level of scrutiny. And especially when their actions are being scrutinized through the propaganda lenses of their enemies
But how absurdist to devote an entire UN Council to the task of criminalizing everything that Israel does or stands for. We all know Israel's real sin in the eyes of its Arab neighbors. It is a Jewish country - and a successful one at that - in the lands of what is supposed to be the caliphate. Which makes its very existence an affront to Islam. And since it will never overcome that "sin", the Arabs will never cease their zealousness to report on Israel's many "depredations against humanity," until Israel, herself, ceases to exist.
And meanwhile, the UN is wasting what is left of its very shaky capital on pursuing this lopsided agenda. For what purpose? To criminalize the state of Israel in its essence?
If all of those countries interested in "reporting on Israel" had the human rights record of Israel, the world would be a far better place.
alcibiades | July 3, 2006 08:19 AM
Rob:
Why be concerned?
Maybe because even when it's proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Israel hasn't committed the alleged human rights violations, the usual suspects go on repeating their lies (the Jenin non-massacre and Mohammed Al-Dura's non-martyrdom are two cases in point.)
Maybe also because the UN has limited resources to investigate and this is really useful deflection being practiced by countries that are bona fide police states, free of pesky NGOs and a free press, and who rank much higher on the UN's own scale as violators. (Israel is around #35)
Lynne | July 4, 2006 12:32 PM
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