Israel cuts ties with U.N. Human Rights Council
Israel to cut off UN Human Rights Council contact (Photo: Reuters)
As a response to last Thursday’s decision by the United Nations Human Rights Council to open a fact-finding mission investigating the effects of Israeli settlements on Palestinian human rights, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has vowed to cut all contact with the UNHRC. Israeli officials have expressed their disapproval for the continued anti-Israel bias demonstrated by the Council, and are unwilling to tolerate it any longer:
Comments (2) »“Israel’s ambassador to the UN organizations in Geneva will not appear before the council, answer any phone calls from the council, or cooperate with them in any way.”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has already vehemently spoken out against the UN hypocrisy.
Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 12:45 PM | Stand for Israel
Bibi blasts U.N. hypocrisy
Yesterday, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution ordering a complete review of Israel’s West Bank settlement policies:
Presenting the resolution, a Pakistani envoy criticized Israel. saying that “In violation of international humanitarian and human rights law, Israel is continuing construction of illegal settlements in the occupied territories including east Jerusalem,
“This resolution seeks to respond to the humanitarian and human rights challenges this illegal Israeli practice has created in the occupied territories,” he said.
Soon thereafter, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back:
“This is hypocritical council with an automatic majority against Israel. This council ought to be ashamed of itself. Until today, the council has made 91 decisions, 39 of which dealt with Israel, three with Syria and one with Iran. One only had to hear the Syrian representative speak today about human rights in order to understand how detached from reality the council is. Another proof of its detachment from reality came last week when it invited before it a representative of Hamas, an organization whose ideology is based on the murder of innocents.”
GO Mr. Prime Minister!
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012 at 7:56 AM | Stand for Israel
Palestinians throw shoes at U.N. Secretary-General
On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where he called on Palestinians to stop launching rockets into Israel – such as the eight rockets fired into southern Israel the day before his visit. He also called on Israel to ensure the “freedom, human rights and decent life and dignity of the Palestinian people.”
Does he mean the kind of dignity with which they greeted him?
“I thank the people of Gaza for the warm welcome,” he told the news conference, provoking laughter among local journalists. “I met many people who were waiting for me at the entrance.” Upon arrival in Gaza, Ban’s convoy was met by dozens of Palestinians throwing shoes, sticks and stones at it, protesting against what they saw as a slight against Palestinians jailed in Israel.
The article further explains:
Many of those protesting as the UN convoy passed by were family members of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. They hit the vehicles with signs bearing slogans accusing Ban of bias towards Israel and of refusing to meet the relatives of Palestinian prisoners.
Considering Ban Ki-moon heads an organization that has approved viciously anti-Israel measures, that denied Israel a seat on the U.N. Security Council, and that called six of their ten emergency sessions about Israel, we have to wonder what on earth these Palestinians think a bias against Israel would look like.
Comments (0) »Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 9:31 AM | Stand for Israel
Hamas says Gaza not “occupied”; U.N. disagrees
Gaza
Recently, Hamas “foreign minister” Mahmoud Zahar said what everyone with eyes has known since 2005: Israel no longer occupies the Gaza strip.
You’ll remember that, in summer of 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in a controversial and wrenching event that witnessed the terrible images of Jewish soldiers removing Jewish residents from their homes – often by force. Whatever your position on that action, the result was obvious to anyone: Israel ceased to occupy Gaza.
Even senior members of Hamas get it. But the U.N. still doesn’t.
Comments (3) »Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 2:43 PM | Rabbi Jonathan Greenberg
U.N.: Syria committed crimes against humanity
(Photo: Reuters)
The United Nations springs into action, recognizing what the rest of the world has known for a long time:
A United Nations commission of inquiry on Syria said on Monday Syrian military and security forces had committed crimes against humanity including murder, torture and rape and the government of President Bashar Assad bore responsibility.
The panel, which interviewed 223 victims and witnesses including defectors, called on Syria to halt the “gross human rights violations”, release prisoners rounded up in mass arrests and allow media, aid workers and rights monitors access to the country.
Having acknowledged that “orders to shoot and otherwise mistreat civilians originated from policies and directives issued at the highest levels of the armed forces and the government,” the U.N. has proposed that the way to stop these outrages is … well, they haven’t proposed anything really. Did anyone expect them to?
OK, to be fair, they did unanimously approve Syria’s membership on two U.N. human rights committees. But it’s tough for those of us who live in the real world to see how this will stop Syria from murdering its own citizens.
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