Monday, November 27, 2006

Only 25 years after the fact

I really cannot comprehend the difference between the old UN Human Rights tribunal and the new one. Ha’aretz carries the latest ‘why’ a case can be made that the new UN Human Rights Commission is even worse than the old one:
The UN Human Rights Council, which has censured only Israel during its six-month existence, on Monday passed a new resolution criticizing
the Jewish state, this time for its occupation of the Golan Heights.

The council voted 32-1 with 14 abstentions to declare illegal Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights and demand that Israel rescind its decision to impose its laws and jurisdiction on the area, which it captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

Canada, which said the resolution was unbalanced, was the only no vote, and European Union members abstained.
Thank you Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Since places like Sudan, Cuba, China, Syria, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, etc., get a complete pass and the new UN Human Rights Commission has yet to deal with any other country in the entire world (nor shown the slightest inclination to do so). I can't understand why the UN does not call their latest incarnation the UN Human Rights Tribunal for Jew Haters Everywhere.

1 comment:

Michael said...

They won't look into any other country. Have you seen their membership list?

Besides, I think it's funny that they'll condemn the annexation of the Golan now, and say that the 'desist from changing the physical
character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status' of the Golan. Under that precedent, all the European border changes since World War I need to be reversed.