Posted on 10/08/2014 3:52:59 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
The decision by the EU and other western countries to boycott anti-Israel proceedings at the UNHRC has many Islamic countries up in arms, as can be seen in the embedded video.
Agenda Item 7 of the UNHRC is entitled, “The Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories" and is directed atg Israel.
Pakistan, speaking for the Islamic Group at the UNHRC, expressed "deep disappointment that certain member states of the Western European and Others Group had ceased their participation under agenda item 7, which [is] particularly disturbing in the light of the latest Israeli behavior."
The United Arab Emirates, speaking for the Arab Group, expressed "extreme discontent about the European Union’s decision to boycott this agenda item."
Addressing the assembly, UN Watch's Hillel Neuer lauded the boycott. In free and democratic societies, he explained, “right is preserved by an independent judiciary that is empowered to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority," but at the United Nations, "the system works differently. Here, the majority faction has the power to decide whatever it wants; there are no limits. The minority faction has no judicial recourse, no right of appeal, no remedy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I agree with another poster. Pigs have been seen flying.
I agree. What is the catch? I must be missing something.
No fatwa yet for EUrocrats and UNaccountable bureaucrats?
1. Bad Muslim behavior is making things difficult for European politicians to retain power at home.
2. The Russian energy dependence goes away if Europe recolonizes North Africa and the Middle East. If they can get the US and India on board with that, can China and The Muslims stop it.
A couple possibilities I see. And it is likely they could just not block an incident justifying possibility number 2.
Hard to recolonize abroad when you have negative population growth at home.
TFB!
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