Palestinian observer to UN Human Rights Commission calls for "elimination" of Israel

Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 31, 2003 | Herb Keinon

[Asher]

Mar. 31, 2003

Palestinian observer to UN Human Rights Commission calls for "elimination" of Israel

By HERB KEINON

The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded Sunday the recall of the Palestinian observer to the UN Human Rights Commission for calling for the "elimination" of Israel.

Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center's representative at the 59th Human Rights Commission session currently taking place in Geneva, wrote the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello calling on him to "immediately condemn the Palestinian observer and take the necessary measures for his recall, due to his violation of the UN Charter in calling for the 'elimination' of the state of Israel.

In addition to calling for Israel's elimination, Samuels said, Nabil Ramlawi repeatedly compared Nazism and "new Zionist Nazism," and at one point said Zionist Nazism was worse than German Nazism.

Samuel, in his letter to de Mello, said, "this call for the elimination of Israel may reveal the true intentions of the PA, but such language should have resulted in the immediate intervention of the session's chairperson, Libyan Ambassador Najat al-Hajjaji."

Samuels' also called on the High commissioner to "censure Ms. al-Hajjaji for her abuse of power in not restraining Ramlawi's excesses."

In a related matter, the Wiesenthal Center Monday called on the Human Rights Commission to launch a "a full and thorough investigation of UNRWA's expenditure and employment practices" and "to establish an independent committee to restructure what has become an agent for the perpetuation of the Middle East conflict."

Samuels, in addressing the session's debate on "the Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine," said that "after 55 years of stagnation it is time to ask whether UNRWA has not served to perpetuate Palestinian refugee status."

He called for a "re-examination of UNRWA, by an independent agency, to determine whether it serves the cause of peace through its statutory responsibility for 'relief works.' Or, in contravention of its mandate and the UN Charter, is it, in fact, a prejudicial agent for the perpetuation of conflict and the deprivation of human rights?"

Samuels said the time has come to question whether UNRWA has not served the policies of Arab countries opposed to integration of the refugees in order to stoke the ever-festering Israeli-Arab conflict.

Samuels also slammed UNRWA head Peter Hansen, who - in April 2002 - said that in Jenin Israel had perpetrated "a human catastrophe that has few parallels in recent history."

"The Hansen story," Samuels said, "entered the annals of 'Big Lie' revisionism, exacerbating further Palestinian hatred and politicizing UNRWA as an instrument of propaganda and incitement."

[zarf]

Gee, at least this raghead tells the truth.

Israel is supposed to negotiate with this?

[epluribus_2]

(France et al): Let's not be to hasty or cowboy about this matter - we should have open debate on the topic and see if the majority of current security council members agree with the Palestinians or with those unilateral Americans and Israelis. (FINAL, FINAL SOLUTION ALERT)

[End Times Sentinel]

Gee, according to the emblem I saw on the PLO website, I thought they already HAD eliminated Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's just so darn difficult to determine who the aggresor is in this conflict...

 

 

 

Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”

[Alouette]

such language should have resulted in the immediate intervention of the session's chairperson, Libyan Ambassador Najat al-Hajjaji."

Samuels' also called on the High commissioner to "censure Ms. al-Hajjaji for her abuse of power in not restraining Ramlawi's excesses."

She was too busy celebrating and dancing the street.

[cookcounty]

The Palies sure are making lots of friends in the US lately, aren't they?

I have to wonder if Mossad is running their PR department.

[SpinyNorman]

Sounds more like an argument for the elimination of a Palestinian state.

[goldstategop]

I was waiting for a Palestinian nazi to finally utter the "e" word. The charming fellow has a very peculiar view of the human rights the Jews should be allowed to have. In other words, zip, zero, zilch, and nada. And to think people after all that has occured, still assign a legitimate role to the UN!

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

I remember her now. Hopefully her and her 1000 friends are in a Fadayeen bus in the middle of Western Iraq with a big Air Force bulls eye on their hippie buses.

[Kay Soze]

There shall never be a nation called Palestine.