Scapegoating Israel, again

[oberliner]

It is tempting to walk away in frustration from what has become an all-too-familiar dogfight at the United Nations, where murky language is used to mask unequivocal bias against Israel.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has had a short and dubious existence. In less than a year, the body created to replace the discredited and disgraced UN Commission on Human Rights has not been able to improve on its predecessor, and continues to perpetuate disdain for Israel. All this distracts from the vital mission of the Human Rights Council – to promote and protect universal human rights.

In its nine months of existence, the Council has convened three special sessions, adopted five resolutions, and three decisions – all to condemn Israel. Meanwhile there has been only one watered-down resolution on Darfur, which Sudan prevented from being fully implemented. Sudan has used the Council to claim that only 9,000 people have died in Darfur, instead of the hundreds of thousands experts believe have been slaughtered.

B’nai B’rith’s in-house expert David Matas believes that, “For the Commission, Israel was the world's worst human rights violator whereas for the Council, Israel is apparently the world's only human rights violator.” Despite the name change, the motives of many remain the same.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378423,00.html

[cali]

1. This is incredibly frustrating

I had hopes that when the Commission was replaced with the Council, that their obsession with Israel would somewhat abate, and allow them to really do something positive. I have no problem with the Council condemning the Occupation or spending time on Israeli infractions, but when that's all they do, they completely and totally discredit themselves. It's pretty disheartening.