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Thursday, January 24, 2008

UN EVIL SANCTIONING COUNCIL:
THE CASE AGAINST MORAL INVERSION

THE PLAIN TRUTH VS PURE EVIL.

 

It is hard to fathom just how deeply and enormously the world must hate the Jews if they side with Religion of Pieces.

Cuba lashes out, threatens to silence UN Watch after speech exposing Hamas inversion

UN Human Rights Council votes 30-1 to condemn Israel for "grave violations"

An emergency session today of the UN’s 47-nation Human Rights Council condemned Israel for “grave violations of the human and humanitarian rights of Palestinian civilians,” for “undermining” the peace process, “incessant and repeated Israeli military attacks,” and causing “loss of life and injuries among Palestinian civilians, including women and children.” The resolution, which made no mention of Hamas rocket attacks or their Israeli victims, was adopted by 30 votes to 1 (Canada), with 15 abstentions from European Union and other countries. UN Watch thanks the many hundreds who urged world leaders not to support the biased and counter-productive text. Click for video of UN Watch's testimony — and Cuba's bullying reply. The full texts of both are below. The Case Against Moral Inversion

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Speech before UN Human Rights Council, 6th Special Session 24 January 2008

Delivered by Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch

Mr. President,

The nations assembled in this special session on the Gaza Strip, convened by the Arab and Islamic states, face an immediate question. On the proposal to condemn Israel, for the alleged crime of targeting civilians, should they vote for, or against?

Let us consider the proposed resolution. To understand its purpose we are guided best not by the science that studies the conduct of governments, but that which studies the mind.

In psychology, attributing one’s own malicious impulses to others is known as projection. Mr. President, the resolution before us constitutes a classic case of such projection.

It is, after all, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other Palestinian terrorist organizations, who deliberately fire rockets—over 200 in the past week alone—at innocent civilians in Sderot and other Israeli towns. It is they who attack from populated areas, using their fellow Palestinians as human shields. It is they who reject the very notion of a distinction between combatants and civilians.

Israel, like the rest of the civilized world, does the opposite. In exercising its right and obligation under international law to defend its citizens from such attacks, Israel risks the lives of its own soldiers to avoid harming civilians. To Israel, causing a civilian casualty is an unintended tragedy; to Hamas, it is a cause for celebration. The world knows this.

The supporters of those who fire rockets at nursery schools summoned us here to accuse Israel of violating international humanitarian law, when in reality it is they who deny—in word and deed—the very premise of that code.

Let us also consider who initiated this session: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan—each of whom just received the lowest possible rating, Not Free, in the annual world survey by Freedom House. Another is Cuba, which just held an election where the ballots had only one candidate. Are these to be the world’s arbiters of human rights?

The truth is that this session was fixed from the start. Those who sponsored it could introduce a resolution declaring the earth to be flat, and it would be assured of the same automatic majority.

The real question we face is something deeper. Can civilization survive—the values of democracy, freedom and basic humanity—when its basic ideas are, in such high forums, everywhere under assault?

That will not be decided here today, but every international declaration has its influence.

Those countries who genuinely care about the future—of the Middle East, of a credible UN, of civilization—will vote No.

Thank you, Mr. President.

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Cuban Ambassador Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez
(Exercising right of reply to UN Watch testimony)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, usually, Cuba doesn’t exercise its rights of reply for non-governmental organizations. We appreciate their interventions in the Council as we did before in the Commission, even when they have views different from ours.

If I am responding now, I am exercising this right to answer something which is the antithesis of a non-governmental organization. I am referring to UN Watch and the executive director, Mr. Neuer. I must say, he produced a Hollywood-type display, speaking to this Council and ambassadors and delegates.

Human... UN Watch is a lucrative organization amply funded by the CIA and Mossad, which is devoted to denigrating certain member states and this Council. He told us, that Israel and his own organization are within the so-called “civilized world”… This implied that this special session is in the world of the barbarians.

But I don’t know anything greater than the acts of barbarians than are taking place in Gaza — dark hospitals, people without water, and other things that UN Watch and his executive director haven’t talked about. I won’t take any more time talking about this false organization, whose voice I have never heard criticizing the concentration camps in Guantanamo. I will simply wait for them calmly in New York, where in the NGOs meeting where they will have to render accounts. And we will see what to do with their consultative status.

Thank you.

More from the emergency session:

"Israel persecutes Palestinian Semites"

Palestinian Ambassador Mohammad Abu-Koash told the council plenary that “Israel writes another chapter of terror, massacres, ethnic cleansing, which constitute the pillars of its own creation… Any attempt to curb the Israeli actions is dubbed anti-Semitism. They have a free license to persecute the Palestinian Semites.” Click for more key quotes

How Countries Voted:  Click here for the full roll-call of today's Council vote.

Support the vital work of UN Watch:  please donate here

UPDATE: THREE DEAD IN MIDEAST VIOLENCE

Two Palestinians infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the West Bank and attacked students at a seminary before being shot dead, police say.

Witnesses said the two men, who were disguised as Israeli soldiers, managed to stab two students in Kfar Etzion, near Bethlehem, before being killed.

The injured students were taken to hospital for treatment, officials said.

In a separate attack, an Israeli border policeman was shot dead by Palestinian gunmen on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

A female colleague of the officer was also wounded in the incident at a checkpoint close to the Shuafat refugee camp.

Israeli Radio said a large number of police and soldiers were now searching for the militants in the surrounding area.

A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, denounced the violence.

"These terror attacks are an example of the brutality of Palestinian terror which Israel battles on a daily basis," David Baker told the Associated Press.

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I have noticed over the years that the Palestinian 'government' (or what passes for it, as 'Palestine' certainly is no sovereign state) has been using civilian residential areas to launch military attacks against Israeli civilans from. In effect, the Palestinian 'government' uses its own people en masse as human shields against Israeli counter-offensive military actions. I understand this practice to be in violation of the Geneva Convention. Yet the world community and the UN in particular are conspicuously silent on this grossly unethical military conduct by the Palestinian 'government.' Something smells really rotten when a practice such as using human shields is ignored by entire governments around the world.

Dear Pamela;
I know that my opinions aren't worth much, and nothing I say here is going to change anything. But I am so very sorry for the astonishingly strong persecution your people have had to endure. Not just now, but over the years.
If I, a nobody, sitting in front of a computer, knows the truth, then how can a representative of a foreign country at the U.N. not know the truth?
The intense hatred, shared by these evil men, for all things Jewish, has poisoned their collective minds to such a degree, that they do not even care if they sound stupid while condemning Israel.
They will say the most incredibly bizarre things with courage, and impunity, because they are surrounded by their Jew- hating confederates.
Imagine if this situation in Gaza were a boxing match, between an Arab, and a Jew. The Arab would be allowed to punch the Jew in the nose. But if the Jew punched back, he would be disqualified by the referee.
I was going to watch the video, but I was afraid I might put a bullet through my computer screen.
Lastly. Has that guy from Cuba ever heard of Auschwitz; or Belzec, or Krakow? Probably not.
Sincerely;
EJO

The entity that calls itself "The United Nations" has used priceless Manhattan real estate for its disgraceful practices for too long. Knock this frigging building down, send these "high and mighty" fleas back to their miserable fleabag "nations" and let 'em stew in their own juices.
The location would be better used as a site for Football, park land or ANYTHING but its present use as an affront to humanity!
The "yes" voters are miserable excuses for human beings, and their countries are some of the WORST VIOLATORS of Human Rights!

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