Castro and Lukashenko to Celebrate Human Rights Council Reform Package
UnWatch
Contrary to all the promises of reform issued last year, the proposal released today by Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba targets Israel for permanent indictment under a special agenda item: “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories,” which includes “Human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”; and “Right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.” No other situation in the world is singled out — not genocide in Sudan, not child slavery in China, nor the persecution of democracy dissidents in Egypt and elsewhere. Moreover, the council will entrench its one-sided investigative mandate of “Israeli violations of international law”—the only one not subject to regular review after a set term—by renewing it “until the end of the occupation.”
At the same time, the proposal eliminates the experts charged with reporting on violations by Cuba and Belarus, despite the latest reports of massive violations by both regimes. As for the experts on other countries — on Burundi, Cambodia, North Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Burma, Somalia and Sudan — all of these may soon be eliminated, as threatened by the Council majority comprised of dictatorships and other Third World countries, under a gradual “review” process. Pending their fate, all experts will be subjected to a new “Code of Conduct,” submitted by Algeria in the name of the African group, designed to intimidate and restrict the independence of the human rights experts.
Wild Thing’s comment……..
So let’s see the International standards will be set by the most murderous thugs!!!! And not Israel that has only fought back these vile terrorists.
“the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”
Occupation, how can it be an occupation? Israel took that territory during wars that they didn’t even start. That’s the way it’s worked throughout human history, to the victors go the spoils. It’s Israeli territory now and they don’t have to give anything back to anyone.
The first arab sponsored terrorist attack upon Jews occurred in 1920, long before the establishment of Israel and long before there were any so-called palestinians. In 1929 arab mobs massacred over 100 Jews, 67 of them in 1929 Hebron massacre alone, an ancient community where Jews lived among arabs peacefully for centuries. Many of the corpses were mutilated by arabs. So apparently fighting back is a huge No No for the UN. I am not surprised, just more disgusted at at UN for doing this.
UNnecessary! The UN + League of Nations = A Joke.
The Oil For Food scam by these UN scum = A Disgrace. Move the UN to Canada or Africa or to the Eurabian / Europeon Union….and level the UN site and make it a 9-11-01 Memorial Park!
– The 2,996 Souls of 9-11-01
Time for the UN’s to leave–go to the Hague where they try people for war crimes.
Israel is bad? But Cuba and other countries or that ilk are good?
I think someone has lost all their marbles!
Israel is NOT bad. Sounds like the UN is trying to do to Israel what we once did to the American Indians–keep on moving them off their lands. That land was given to them in the 1940s so the Israelites would have a homeland and now they want it back?
PS: The UN is 100% Sitting Bull & Fork Tongues!
Pack your bags and ship back to your grasslands and cat litter sand boxes!!
Well the latest from the new UN secretary general, Bang-Bin Moon or whatever, is Climate change has caused the killing in Dafur. If one takes the liberty and extrapolates this statement you will find that at the end of this statement it is OUR fault. The United States.
This is why all the Libs want the US to do something about Dafur. Well hell, using Liberal logic, Dafur never threatened US, so why.
Because we are so rich, the world is envious, it doesn’t matter to these half-wits that we as a country worked for it. No it is because we have it.
UN is as worhtless as teets on an old sow, dried up and whitered and totally useless to the owner and anyone who might need one.
That 62 year old menace on Manhattan’s East River is not our friend and never has been. They are our enemy, the first tenet of war against your enemy is to demonize them, make them less than human, make them out as the aggressor, make them the target of everything evil. This makes it much easier to kill that enemy. This is what is being done to Israel, by the Palestinians and now officially by the U.N.
The United nations has hand fed the Palestinians since 1948, collectively there has been no progression on human rights, self rule or independent economic growth. The Palestinians have been supported and abbetted by the UN, much to the chagrin of the United States and Israel.
What the U.N. is doing by making these absurd charges is setting Israel (and the U.S.) up for U.N. legitimized attacks by it’s enemies. Ban Kee Moon is just another useless functionary doing the bidding of this Communist organization. It’s not about human rights it’s about Communist control. The Communists have the blood of millions on their hands as a result of their control methods, Darfur is just the latest in the bloody proxy war they are conducting.
This onerous attack of Israel by the U.N. is just a wedge being driven between the friendship and support of the United States and Israel. Can’t people see the parallels between what the United Nation is doing and what the current administration is doing? The Communists are attacking the only democratically ruled nation in the middle east while the current administration does the same thing by attacking and incarcerating those who have pledged to protect this nation and it’s borders, whether they be the citizens, the soldiers or directly the Border patrol. Appeasing whom? The United Nations.
The Democrat Party has become a functioning political arm of the United Nations internally, preferring international law in favor of and usurping U.S. Law. It’s a sad state of affairs when the most powerful and generous nation in world history has to go before the United Nations begging like a tramp for permission to defend itself against aggressor nations who are in turn protected by the United Nations and largely paid for by the U.S. Taxpayer.
Don’tcha think something is wrong with the organization that is the cancer of New York?
I would really like to see the UN moved to Khartoum or Havana. No luxuries for the delegates.
I would also like to see former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, run for president. If he became President, I believe the UN would be shitting upon it’s collective self knowing that all US finances and support was now history. They would also know that the highest echelons of the American government no longer gave the UN any credibility at all.
Darth, yessss and I wish and pray we could get rid of it. It doesn’tr have to be here it could be someplace else. Heck I would like it gone for good from anywhere.
Mark it sure is, totally worthless. I want it gone yesterday!!
Jack yes I do your right. And this too…..”The Democrat Party has become a functioning political arm of the United Nations internally”….it has and it sure is obvious what they are up to. It is disgusting.
Lynn, they sure want the world to hate Israel. For many people they don’t need much of a push so I doubt there will be much of an uproar about this, but there should be. This is beyond the pale what the UN is doing.
Tom that would be sooooooo wonderful!!!