Israel-Bashing At The United NationsEdmontonsun.com
By Mindelle Jacobs
July 10, 2006Excerpt:
You can dress up a dictator in a suit, but he's still a thug. The same goes for the UN Human Rights Council. New name but brutish business as usual.
It didn't take long for the council, which replaced the discredited UN Human Rights Commission, to get into Israel-bashing mode.
Right off the bat, at its inaugural session last month, the council singled out only one state - Israel - for denunciation. Never mind that there are atrocious human rights violations being committed in numerous countries.
A prime example is the Darfur region of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of non-Arab civilians have been killed and more than two million displaced in a genocidal orgy perpetrated by government-backed militias.
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The list of countries that routinely engage in murder, torture and dehumanization is a long one. Incredibly, only 25 of the 47 members of the council extend full civil and political rights to their citizens, according to UN Watch, an NGO that monitors the performance of the United Nations.
Four members of the council - China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia - are among the most repressive states in the world.
Yet tiny, democratic Israel, which has been trying to make peace with its largely despotic neighbours for decades, is being stigmatized by the council.
Last week, at the instigation of the Arab bloc, the council held a special session and voted 29-11 to condemn Israel's recent incursion into Gaza.
There will now be a fact-finding mission to the Palestinian territories to investigate alleged Israeli human rights violations.
Of course, there was no mention of the nihilistic band of Palestinian terrorists attacking Israelis on a daily basis. Israel pulled out of Gaza and what did the Palestinians do? Lay down their weapons and begin building a state?