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shira

(30,109 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2014, 11:25 PM Jun 2014

Israeli mothers in the den of wolves and hyenas

Op-ed: Instead of supporting women whose teenage sons were kidnapped in blatant violation of human rights, members of UN Human Rights Council attacked them with lies.

Noah Klieger
Published: 06.25.14, 20:58 / Israel Opinion

The Geneva-based United Nations committee is called for some reason the Human Rights Council, although a more suitable name would be "the anti-Israel incitement council." Throughout the decades this body has been active, it has failed to adopt a single resolution in favor of Israel, but has passed dozens – if not hundreds – of resolutions against the Jewish state.

The three mothers of the kidnapped Israeli teens entered this den of wolves and hyenas on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to explain to the world that Palestinian terrorists had not kidnapped soldiers or fighters, but three young students – a criminal act which blatantly contradicts every rule of human rights and humanity.

"Human rights"? Don't make the members of this committee laugh. Not only did they not support the miserable mothers, but most of them even attacked them with lies in the most blatant manner.

One after the other, the representatives of the enlightened states, known for their impassioned fight for freedom of man and human rights, stood up to attack the three Israeli women. The representatives of Syria, Iran, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Russia, China, Cuba, and of course Palestine, stood up to accuse Israel of every possible – and impossible – crime against the rights of the Arabs in general and the Palestinian people in particular....


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4534306,00.html

The UN is just wonderful, isn't it?

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Israeli mothers in the den of wolves and hyenas (Original Post) shira Jun 2014 OP
U.N. Dictatorships Fail to Stop Critique of Inaction on Human Rights shira Jun 2014 #1
More Israeli propaganda? Why am I not surprised. BillZBubb Jun 2014 #2
The UNHRC King_David Jun 2014 #3
So Shaktimaan Jun 2014 #5
And they wonder why the UN has made so many condemning HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #4
Wow Shaktimaan Jun 2014 #6
Exactly. The kidnapping is a CRIME. DetlefK Jun 2014 #7

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
2. More Israeli propaganda? Why am I not surprised.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 12:10 AM
Jun 2014

The typical de-humanizing of those opposing Israeli policy (Wolves, Hyenas) is a hallmark of Israeli propaganda.

These settlers, living on stolen land need to be asked tough questions. They steal the land and then expect their children to be able to walk around without problems? You keep people under your boot-heel for long enough and they strike back.

And for the Israelis to complain about kidnapping is hypocritical considering they hold whole populations hostage. The kidnapping of those students is an outrageous act, but no one should be surprised it happened.

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
5. So
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 02:49 AM
Jun 2014

You reject the idea that human rights laws apply to everyone, regardless of what someone's government may have done?


HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
4. And they wonder why the UN has made so many condemning
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 01:04 AM
Jun 2014

resolutions against Israel. That's because Israel continually violates UN charter provisions and spits in the general direction of the resolutions. And despite the actions of the Israeli government, they have the gall to all the UN antisemitic.

Wikipedia: "As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by United Nations Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006—the Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The 45 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance). From 1967 to 1989 the UN Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict. In early Security Council practice, resolutions did not directly invoke Chapter VII. They made an explicit determination of a threat, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and ordered an action in accordance with Article 39 or 40. Resolution 54 determined that a threat to peace existed within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter, reiterated the need for a truce, and ordered a cease-fire pursuant to Article 40 of the Charter. Although the phrase "Acting under Chapter VII" was never mentioned as the basis for the action taken, the chapter's authority was being used."

Shaktimaan

(5,397 posts)
6. Wow
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 02:57 AM
Jun 2014
As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by United Nations Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006—the Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined.


And they have the gall to think that the UN might be anti-Semitic, you say? Isn't that just like them, to say that?!?

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
7. Exactly. The kidnapping is a CRIME.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 05:08 AM
Jun 2014

And Israel uses CRIME-FIGHTING as an excuse to attack and arrest political opponents.

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