Posted on 08/11/2006 4:56:40 PM PDT by Grendel9
Geneva, August 11, 2006--For the second time in a month, the UN Human Rights Council is today holding an emergency Special Session to denounce Israel, this time for alleged "gross human rights violations" in Lebanon. UN Watch condemned the exercise as one-sided and urged all members to oppose the draft resolution. The text, submitted by the Council's Arab and Islamic members who initiated the meeting, "strongly condemns the grave Israeli violations of human rights" and contemplates the urgent dispatch of a "high-level commission of inquiry" to investigate.
Today's debate featured harsh speeches from Muslim states and their allies, with Cuba accusing Israel of "genocidal intent."
Russia, despite its support for the meeting, criticized the resolution as "strongly worded" and "directed only at Israel, even though Israelis have suffered." Finland, on behalf of the European Union, said the Council " should promote universal human rights without distinction."
Others expressed stronger opposition. The Canada said it would vote against the resolution because it was "manifestly one-sided," failing to recognize that "this conflict was caused by Hezbollah and its state sponsors." Canada said the Council "should be used for productive matters and should eliminate double-standards and politicization. Neither the session nor the resolution are productive towards securing peace in the Middle East."
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Instead, key Geneva human rights bodies have disregarded even their own most basic rules in order to condemn Israel over its war with Hezbollah. ... It's been obvious for decades that the UN is anti-Semite. It's just more blatantly obvious now.
The UN is a useless oprganisation, but its a waste of time to complain. We will keep sending money there and stand by as they spit on us.
No mention of the ball bearing filled warheads aimed at Israeli citizens?
When will we see these folks complaining about the atrocities in China that don't even have a war to explain them?
When Hezbollah and PLO terrorists murder Israeli civilians by the thousands, it's because they have legitimate claims. When the Israeli military kills terrorists, they're violating the human rights of those who have sworn to kill every man, woman and child in Isreal.
Got it?
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