Meet the new UN Human Rights Council...

**Womble** · 06-30-2006, 02:23 PM

...same as the old Human Rights Commission. Still anti-Israeli to boot.

New UN rights body targets Israel

The new UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to make a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel a permanent feature of every council session.

The resolution, which was sponsored by Islamic countries, was passed by a vote of 29-12, with five abstentions. It effectively revives a practice of the UN's dissolved Human Rights Commission, which also reviewed alleged Israeli abuses every time it met.

Israel protested Friday's vote, calling it a perpetuation of "the old infamous habits" of the widely discredited commission.

The resolution requires UN investigators to report at each council session "on the Israeli human rights violations in occupied Palestine."

The resolution also said the council "decides to undertake substantive consideration of the human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories at its next session and to incorporate that issue in its following sessions."

One of the United States' main criticisms of the 53-nation Human Rights Commission that was replaced this year by the council was that it spent one week of its annual six-week session criticizing Israel and made other frequent attacks on the Jewish state.

"Voting in favor of this draft resolution will lead you directly to the old infamous habits of the commission," Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Levanon told the council. "Voting yes essentially means that no lessons have been drawn. It means that there is no fresh beginning."

Besides Arab and other Muslim countries, "yes" votes were cast by African nations, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia and Sri Lanka. Canada and European Union members on the council voted against it.

The United States is not a member of the council and, like Israel, was unable to vote.

The council has two more sessions this year, starting in September and December.

**Reffo** · 06-30-2006, 03:18 PM

What? And once again the UN ignores real victims such as the Sudanese blacks. I guess they don't warrant special attention because their adversaries are Arab and Muslim?

Theodikritis · 07-01-2006, 07:41 AM

Petition for the UN to recognize the Armenian Genocide, oh wait the same Muslim Block will stop that everytime as well.

The first Genocide of the 20th century is apparently not good enough for the UN.

defari · 07-01-2006, 08:33 AM

Doea anyone even listen to the UN anymore? The US ignored it many times, and rightfully so. Does the UN's 33254545576868697979 resolutions agains Israel mean anything? Besides the fact that it means that the UN is anti-Semitic. Who the hell cares about the UN anymore? Kofi Annan is an idiot and a traitor for letting Arabs murder his black people in Sudan. If Bush "doesn't care about black people", well neither does Kofi Annan. Plus, his speeches mean nothing, nobody listens to him anyway. I'm actually surprised that the joke of an organization hasn't been abolished yet. It doesn't exist for me.

The Indian · 07-06-2006, 07:27 PM

I really wished India had voted against it or abstained.

It appears the brainiacs in Delhi are again in to appeasing the Muslim vote bank before key state elections in India's most populous state.

I'm really sorry to our Israeli friends this had to happen. It is embarrassing.