The UN Bigotry Machine
Quick quiz. An inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council has just released a draft report condemning:
A) Iran
B) China
C) Sri Lanka
D) Israel
The answer, of course, is D — Israel. This is yet another UN document that deserves to be filed in the same dustbin as the ugly and discredited Goldstone report. Never mind Iran, China, Sri Lanka et al. As the Geneva-based monitoring group, UN Watch, points out, since the UN set up its “reformed” Human Rights Council in 2006, “there have been seven one-sided inquiry missions on Israel, and only five on the rest of the world combined. Mass atrocities committed by Iran, China, or Sri Lanka, for example, have never been subjected to a single HRC inquiry.”
This latest report, due to be formally presented to the Council in March, is captioned “Advanced Unedited Version.” I assume they meant to say ”Advance,” since there is nothing advanced about this product. It’s the latest in a long series of exhibits that attest not to the realities of the Middle East, but to the unrelenting bigotry of what is supposed to be the UN’s leading human rights body. The full title – brace yourself, this is one of those UN doozies — is: “Report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.”
The three “high-level experts” appointed by the president of the Human Rights Council to produce this document arrogate to themselves, in its introduction, a description of their work as “Guided by the principles of ‘do no harm,’ independence, impartiality, objectivity, transparency, confidentiality, integrity and professionalism…” Yes, and pigs can fly.
UN Watch gives an incisive summary of the contents of this report, and makes the vital point that while the UN is supposed to foster peace, this kind of inquiry has the very opposite effect: “It has the perverse outcome of pushing the parties further apart, while also inappropriately pre-judging final status issues that can only be resolved through direct negotiations.” I’d add that in obsessively savaging Israel, while ignoring most of the genuine perpetrators of gross human rights violations, the UN Human Rights Council — and the UN generally — waste the considerable resources they are given, dishonor their charter mandate, and do a horrendous disservice to the truly downtrodden.
As UN Watch notes in two additional items currently high on its web site, the UN recently voted the Hugo Chavez regime of Venezuela a seat on the Human Rights Council, and the UN has just elected Sudan as one of four vice-presidents to its powerful Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). These are just two of the latest data points in the UN’s chronic practice of seating thug governments, from Iran to Cuba, on its governing bodies and councils. If the UN is actually capable of launching a genuinely independent inquiry (it’s not clear that it is), then it’s high time it launched one into its own devolution into a machine for exalting the likes of the Caracas and Khartoum regimes, and under their guidance, cranking out propaganda and endorsing bigotry.
Israel is a work in progress. Man has the right to disapprove of this”progress so far . Demons on the other hand have other reasons to hate Israel. Demons amy approve of the PRESENT ISRAEL and hate the future
Isaiah
saiah 49
Good News Translation (GNT)
Israel, A Light to the Nations
49 Listen to me, distant nations,
you people who live far away!
Before I was born, the Lord chose me
and appointed me to be his servant.
2 He made my words as sharp as a sword.
With his own hand he protected me.[a]
He made me like an arrow,
sharp and ready for use.
3 He said to me, “Israel, you are my servant;
because of you, people will praise me.”
4 I said, “I have worked, but how hopeless it is!
I have used up my strength, but have accomplished nothing.”
Yet I can trust the Lord to defend my cause;
he will reward me for what I do.
5 Before I was born, the Lord appointed me;
he made me his servant to bring back his people,
to bring back the scattered people of Israel.
The Lord gives me honor;
he is the source of my strength.
6 The Lord said to me,
“I have a greater task for you, my servant.
Not only will you restore to greatness
the people of Israel who have survived,
but I will also make you a light to the nations—
so that all the world may be saved.”
7 Israel’s holy God and savior says
to the one who is deeply despised,
who is hated by the nations
and is the servant of rulers:
“Kings will see you released
and will rise to show their respect;
princes also will see it,
and they will bow low to honor you.”
This will happen because the Lord has chosen his servant;
the holy God of Israel keeps his promises.
The Restoration of Jerusalem
8.
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This time, waxwing01 is spot on.
““Report of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people, throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.””
I do think there’s something to be said for simpler times. Less words, and you could just hate someone for being different. No need to justify it through complicated philosophizing.
Because freedom and religious tolerance are “racist”… all the trans-national progressives and islamists say so.
The UN–
WHY?
Having the UN on our shores, not to mention funding it with taxpayers money; is an abomination and a massive embarrassment and an true affront to the constitution and the freedom of the people that revere it.
On the Elder of Ziyon blog this morning appears an article describing why the Jews of Egypt were thrown out in the early 1950s and, of course, had their property confiscated. The following is an outtake from it:
“Well, we need to understand the context. 98% of those in the Egyptian Stock Exchange were Jewish. One third of the major industries in Egypt were owned by Jews.
Jews controlled the newspapers in Egypt at the time, and the newspapers they didn’t control they indirectly controlled by how they advertised their Jew-goods.
Jews were also over-represented in the political sphere compared to their actual numbers.
And- get this – Jews in Egypt celebrated the Balfour Declaration!
Putting the facts together, you see that Egyptian Jews were of course a danger to Egypt and had to be fought against, and Hassan al-Banna was merely defending his country by issuing statements that might, on the surface, appear anti-semitic.
For example, Hussein notes, al-Banna published a pamphlet called “The risk of Jews in Egypt,” where he warned of the Jewish domination of the economy, gold, major hotels and real estate, and their control of advertising and newspapers.
See? this is all perfectly understandable! No anti-semitism there!”
Well, these are the same claims of the greater Arab world against Israel today. Indeed, Israel is condemned for lending support to itself by defending its population. Now if the Jews were all subsistence farmers, there would be no objection to their existence and they would be tolerated living peacefully among the Muslim majority – more or less like Christians, Animists, and secular members of society are tolerated today among them.
I continue to be astounded that our gutless Congress and idiot public, the same ones that reelected President Abject Failure, believe we should be affiliated with the U.N..
The United States is the only country I know that would be so dumb to fund 22% of an operation that is adversarial to the funding country’s interest at every level, and for their 22% of the funding has the same voting rights as those that pay little or nothing.
It is no wonder so many consider $16,500,000,000 of debt no big deal when I think the U.N. is swell.
Tex, give credit where it’s due. The debt is not $16,500,000,000. No Sir. It’s $16,500,000,000,000.
Mea culpa. Almost unforgivable. Yes, we would not want to short Obama’s greatest accomplishment.
I guess I could lie as say I forgot the ‘K’ but that wouldn’t be true.
More evidence that Western democracies should defund the UN — or, better yet, leave the UN altogether. What are we thinking by giving any credibility, let alone multi-millions of dollars, to this corrupt band of thugs?
Somehow I get this feeling that if a Republican presidential candidate ever stood up to the United Nations and called them out as being hypocrites, anti-semites, and the greatest supporters of radical Islam there is, he or she would get a huge amount of support in the United States. I firmly believe that the UN is only popular with the elites in some blue states and that most Americans really feel that the our money could be much better spent elsewhere. It should not be in America’s interest to support a corrupt organization that has far outlived its usefulness and seems to be nothing more than a social club for the world’s dictators, tyrants, generals, and religious fanatics. Time to let the UN go, just like we did with the League of Nations a long, long, time ago.
I completely agree. Most ordinary people have no respect for the UN, and the UN’s legitimacy in the world is dependent on the U.S. government’s support. It’s preposterous to speak as if the UN had any moral or other authority over American voters and taxpayers.
Quick quiz. An inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council has just released a draft report condemning:
A) Iran
B) China
C) Sri Lanka
D) Israel
I am surprised that the list is so short. It should at the very least included Syria, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia & North Korea. And this list could be easily expanded too.
What atrocities did Sri Lanka commit? My only guess is something to do with relations with the Tamil minority during and just after the civil war, but what exactly was done?
Shane asks “What atrocities did Sri Lanka commit?”
Seriously?
Rosett posed a simple question – which country does UN condemn now? – and offered you 4 choices.
The answer is that UN condemned NONE of the first three.
Simple question, simple answer. So Sri Lanka was not condemned. Get it now, Shane?
Oh yeah, and didn’t carcajou mumble “I am surprised that the list is so short”
Take it up with UN carcajou. It’s UN who likes to keep the list down to just one nation.
Why doesn’t Israel take the courageous step and leave the UN? If you think this is crazy, tell me what benefit Israel still derives from being a member. The total purport of all the UN rulings on Israel — the disputed territories are Arab, all Israeli acts of self-defense are war crimes, etc. — is that Israel should commit suicide. America’s founding fathers chose to sever their country’s links with England over much less provocation. The sooner Israel should leave the UN the more damage the move would do to the UN’s, rather than Israel’s, legitimacy.
Why doesn’t Israel leave the UN?
I have asked myself the same question a thousand times. I told myself: there must be a reason and I am just ignorant. But I wish some one could give me a better explanation…
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
That said, I think that all Western democracies should leave the UN. It’s become a cesspool of tyrannical dictators who hate Israel and are promoters for militant Islam.
All it is, is a bottomless bank account for these thugs.
Arrogant, incompetent, third-world sub-bureaucrats with an inflated ego arrive to the UN to become chief officers and secretary generals. Take Koffi Annan, a corrupt thug from Ghana with a bottomless expense account courtesy of the American taxpayer, or Boutros Ghali, an Egyptian who among other assets is being responsible for selling millions of dollars in arms to the Rwanda government while he was Foreign Minister in Egypt, arms which were used in the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi tribes. Add the forgettable Peruvian Javier Perez de Cuellar or the Nazi or Nazi-sympathizer (take your pick) Kurt Waldheim, and you may start to get the general idea.
With such a roster of leaders, what else could one expect from the organization? Today, bastions of dignity, champions of human rights, such as Syria, North Korea, Iran, Bangladesh are the lunatics that run the asylum. The UN has become a sorry, pathetic pseudo-elite club of small-scale diplomatic bureaucrats running low on brains, high on expense accounts and neutral in ethical or moral codes. Any country leaving the club would only be an act of courage and self-respect.
For anyone who may be interested the SECOND-most hated nation at the UN is the United States.
I know. I was a mid-level officer at UN HQ in New York for several years.