HRW slams UN body for anti-Israel bias

[Behind the Aegis]

Human Rights Watch on Monday criticized the new UN Human Rights Council for its one-sided attacks on Israel and disproportionate attention to the Middle East.

The New York-based human rights organization issued a statement urging the council to "expand its focus beyond the Middle East" and address other crises, such as those in Darfur and Sri Lanka.

The statement also pointed out that in the meetings that have occurred since the council was created in March, it has adopted three resolutions on "human rights abuses and violations of humanitarian law" by Israel. But, the organization noted, it "has ignored the responsibilities and roles of other parties in the Middle East, including Hizbullah and Palestinian armed groups, who have committed violations."

It continued, "In taking a one-sided approach, the council failed in its duty to act to protect the rights of all citizens in the region."

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[aquart]

1. Ah, the UN is in agreement with DU.

Which is why I'm always so impressed when someone quotes all the UN charges or complaints or whatever they are against Israel. Such impartial, unbiased judgements.

[papau]

8. True n/t

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[Behind the Aegis]

6. huh?

I never said HRW is AI. I don't even think the article said that.

I made no "point." I posted an article. So why are are you accusing me of "hate?"

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[Zodiak]

9. Has the nun shooting been connected to the Pope?

Because the last report by the BBC I saw on that issue said that the connection had not been made.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. what are you even talking about?

This post makes NO sense, whatsoever.

[rockymountaindem]

12. No it doesn't. n/t

[Chi-Town Exile]

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[leesa]

10. Ah yes. No one can criticize Israel. Israel could do a lot to dispell

this anti-Israel sentiment if they would abide by some of the UN resolutions they have ignored over the years before they hammer others for the same.

[Josh]

11. How 'bout the "Zionism is Racism" UN Resolution -

that was a fair one, wasn't it? Sure never convinced Israel that most of the member nations of the UN want nothing better than to eliminate them from existance.

And why doesn't anyone ever give TURKEY any shit? They're actually the country that has ignored the most UN Resolutions.

[Poll_Blind]

14. "...unholy alliance between South African racism and Zionism..."

  That's from the resolution 3379. It was rescinded in 1991, though many seem to quote it as though it had not been rescinded, or as some do, that in some way it was because, simply, the United Nations does not like Israel (or, as some have said, even Jews).

  It is not widely noted, for whatever reason, that that resolution came about chiefly because of the Israeli government's intense and persistent love affair with the racist White South-African government.

  At the time Israel and the White South-African government had extremely close relations. Their relationship which included mutual dissemination of techniques to oppress the indigenous people, the sale of weaponry and armaments (even when the rest of the world, for a decade, was already boycotting the White South-African government) and, of course, developing their nuclear arms programs together and testing their first nuclear devices together. That's friendship. Israel's demonization of the ANC (African National Congress)- you know, the Africans who didn't like living in bantustans under White South-African military control and wanted something abhorrent like not being prisoners in their own nation, is well known to anyone who has looked into the matter more than fleetingly.

  Those curious about the facts of that relationship should read Israeli Foreign Policy: South Aftica and Central America, Jane Hunter (1987).

  For the more casual reader, some excerpts from the book here. The site it is from is critical of Israel (and many, many other governments) and some have made the equation that criticism of Israel is, in fact, anti-Semitic. Should the reader's sensibilities agree with this equation, or equations that criticism of the current American government is anti-American or un-Democratic, or that Noam Chomsky's criticism of Israel or America are both anti-American and anti-Semitic, or unnerved by criticism of Fox News or dictators in general, I caution you away from this site in hopes of preserving your psychological well-being.

PB

[The Magistrate]

13. An Observation, Ma'am, More To The Actual Point

Which the Human Rights Watch organization makes in its presentation here, is that apparently can no one criticize Hezbollah and Hamas and their like. The organization is pointing out that though there have been, in its view, violations by both sides of the recent episode, the U.N. rights body criticizes only one. It is further pointing out that there are far graver and more atrocious events underway in the world today, that draw little or no notice from the U.N. rights body. Since this observation is made by an organization that is hardly stinting in its criticism of Israel, it would seem worth giving some weight to.