Israel, The UN, And Why It Is Impossible For Reform
The United Nations has been the bane of this nation for sometime now. Many citizens in the US--indeed, a clear-cut majority--thoroughly believe that the UN is incapable of reform, and is ardently against the United States. Well, that is only partially true. They do not like how "cavalier" or "cowboy"-like the United States is at time; especially under a Republican president. I am sure they would much rather have Bill Clinton back in charge of things where when he acted unilaterally it was in back-water nations like Kosovo. Even in Somalia, where the world agreed that serious problems existed under Aidid's rule--especially Mogadishu--President Clinton ran when we racked up 18 brave souls in caskets doing what he sent them to do. Talk about lacking the courage of one's convictions.
But today, Captain Ed Morrissey highlights a story revolving around the UN. From the Jerusalem Post:
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."
The resolution also said the council "decides to undertake substantive consideration of the human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories at its next session and to incorporate that issue in its following sessions."
One of the United States' main criticisms of the 53-nation Human Rights Commission that was replaced this year by the council was that it spent one week of its annual six-week session criticizing Israel and made other frequent attacks on the Jewish state.
"Voting in favor of this draft resolution will lead you directly to the old infamous habits of the commission," Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon told the council. "Voting yes essentially means that no lessons have been drawn. It means that there is no fresh beginning."
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.
The United States is not a member of the council and, like Israel, was unable to vote.
This is just one more example of why the UN is incapable of reform. Their rampant anti-Semitism has risen again, and is it any coincidence that it is occurring now as Israel defends itself? Naturally the Muslim nations and people of the region--those who agree with the terrorists that have been trying to destroy Israel since its rocky birth--are complaining that Israel is not "playing fair." That they are not "being nice." I have no sympathy for people who decide that it is all right to blow up innocent men, women , and children, and during a declared cease-fire continue to lob rockets against their enemy.
That's what the Palestinians have done since the last cease-fire was declared. They have continued to throw Kassam rockets at the Israelis, and the kidnapping of two Israeli citizens was the straw that broke the camel's back. Israel is not backing down, and the Palestinians are losing. So, they head to the UN and proclaim that Israel is, once again, abusing human rights. That is farcical, and I have a problem keeping a straight face with that accusation. This is the same people who just finished torturing and murdering one of those two kidnapped individuals. But, Captain Ed weighs in appropriately regarding the accusation that Israel is the biggest human rights abuser on the face of the planet:
Let's look at Israel as an example, since they have made that their issue. Israel allows full suffrage for its citizens, even the Israeli Arabs. A handful sit in the Knesset, and they have their own political party. Most of the nations on the HRC don't even allow for multiparty democracy, let alone minority rights and freedom of expression. In terms of Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank, certainly some criticism is legitimate, but the overall context of the struggle they face there overwhelmingly shows them as sinned against much more than sinner. The HRC, in either incarnation, has never made an issue of Palestinian terrorism against explicitly civilian targets, making their approach to the conflict completely dishonest.
When the UN Human Rights Council decides to clean up its house, and cleanse itself of the despots sitting on it (the list is above int he story) then it may criticize Israel. Until then, the UN and its precious council should be ignored. Hypocrites, one and all, and because of that continued hypocrisy, their ideas concerning Israel are noted, but utterly irrelevant. Which should be nothing new for an organization that has been virtually irrelevant for the last twenty years, or so.
Marcie
The United Nations has been the bane of this nation for sometime now. Many citizens in the US--indeed, a clear-cut majority--thoroughly believe that the UN is incapable of reform, and is ardently against the United States. Well, that is only partially true. They do not like how "cavalier" or "cowboy"-like the United States is at time; especially under a Republican president. I am sure they would much rather have Bill Clinton back in charge of things where when he acted unilaterally it was in back-water nations like Kosovo. Even in Somalia, where the world agreed that serious problems existed under Aidid's rule--especially Mogadishu--President Clinton ran when we racked up 18 brave souls in caskets doing what he sent them to do. Talk about lacking the courage of one's convictions.
But today, Captain Ed Morrissey highlights a story revolving around the UN. From the Jerusalem Post:
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."
The resolution also said the council "decides to undertake substantive consideration of the human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories at its next session and to incorporate that issue in its following sessions."
One of the United States' main criticisms of the 53-nation Human Rights Commission that was replaced this year by the council was that it spent one week of its annual six-week session criticizing Israel and made other frequent attacks on the Jewish state.
"Voting in favor of this draft resolution will lead you directly to the old infamous habits of the commission," Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon told the council. "Voting yes essentially means that no lessons have been drawn. It means that there is no fresh beginning."
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.
The United States is not a member of the council and, like Israel, was unable to vote.
This is just one more example of why the UN is incapable of reform. Their rampant anti-Semitism has risen again, and is it any coincidence that it is occurring now as Israel defends itself? Naturally the Muslim nations and people of the region--those who agree with the terrorists that have been trying to destroy Israel since its rocky birth--are complaining that Israel is not "playing fair." That they are not "being nice." I have no sympathy for people who decide that it is all right to blow up innocent men, women , and children, and during a declared cease-fire continue to lob rockets against their enemy.
That's what the Palestinians have done since the last cease-fire was declared. They have continued to throw Kassam rockets at the Israelis, and the kidnapping of two Israeli citizens was the straw that broke the camel's back. Israel is not backing down, and the Palestinians are losing. So, they head to the UN and proclaim that Israel is, once again, abusing human rights. That is farcical, and I have a problem keeping a straight face with that accusation. This is the same people who just finished torturing and murdering one of those two kidnapped individuals. But, Captain Ed weighs in appropriately regarding the accusation that Israel is the biggest human rights abuser on the face of the planet:
Let's look at Israel as an example, since they have made that their issue. Israel allows full suffrage for its citizens, even the Israeli Arabs. A handful sit in the Knesset, and they have their own political party. Most of the nations on the HRC don't even allow for multiparty democracy, let alone minority rights and freedom of expression. In terms of Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank, certainly some criticism is legitimate, but the overall context of the struggle they face there overwhelmingly shows them as sinned against much more than sinner. The HRC, in either incarnation, has never made an issue of Palestinian terrorism against explicitly civilian targets, making their approach to the conflict completely dishonest.
When the UN Human Rights Council decides to clean up its house, and cleanse itself of the despots sitting on it (the list is above int he story) then it may criticize Israel. Until then, the UN and its precious council should be ignored. Hypocrites, one and all, and because of that continued hypocrisy, their ideas concerning Israel are noted, but utterly irrelevant. Which should be nothing new for an organization that has been virtually irrelevant for the last twenty years, or so.
Marcie
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 7:35 PM
1 Comments:
For some time, I've advocated that the UN be evicted. I don't like the way they spend our money and use us. I don't like their 3rd world attitude. I don't like their bias and prejudice. Most of all I don't like their agenda to be ruler of the world. I urge everyone to read Agenda 21 and see how far it has come. The other day, the UN again asked for their very own Army! The only thing that remains for the UN is steady source of revenue. They are looking to tax the internet! Here's what Daniel Moynihan said in 1970: Upon his leaving he gave three definitions of that organization: "A theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum." Then, giving his remarks support, he quoted a leading British journalist of the time who said that the U.N. was among "the most corrupt and corrupting creations in the whole history of human institutions." It only gotten worse. Rawriter
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