Thursday, January 13, 2005

No Longer Content with Condemnations & Resolutions

It was outrageous enough last summer when the UN High Court of Justice ruled that Palestinian convenience trumped Jewish lives and limbs when it ruled the security fence protecting Israelis from Palestinian terrorism from the West Bank was illegal and must be torn down. Now the UN finds itself no longer content with passing anti-Israeli resolutions but is seeking to establish a Claims Registry Office for Palestinians who have been displaced or inconvenienced by the security fence in the West Bank. From the Jerusalem Post:

A UN General Assembly anti-Israel resolution passed in July asked UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to establish a register of damage caused by the fence's construction for possible future claims and legal action.

The resolution was based on the advisory opinion issued last summer by the International Court of Justice at The Hague demanding the demolition of the barrier in areas beyond the pre-1967 borders.
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Annan took the first step Tuesday to create a claims register by sending a letter to the General Assembly president setting out a framework for the register and the next steps in its creation.

The registry office, as envisioned by Annan, would be based in Palestinian territory "so that it will be close to the people who will be submitting their damage claims for inclusion in the register," the note said. Details on staffing, size and cost remain to be worked out, but Annan proposed that the registry office be financed from contributions by all 191 UN member states.
Just why is it that the UN cannot comprehend that Israel does not have or run a 4th rate judicial system unlike all of the tinfoil brigade neighbors?

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