Israel severs ties with UN Human Rights Council
Israel severs ties with UN Human Rights Council
Thought is was funny the US was the only one that voted against the measure.
US: Forever alone!
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They might as well. With friends like the UN, who needs enemies?
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Nice avatar. I wear that pin to work every day. I don't see the UN making much of a difference here.
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An international fact finding team could validate the Israelis if they really aren't violating human rights. I think a modern democratic nation withdrawing from the UNHRC is a very bad sign
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Israel demolishing solar panels, depriving Palestinian of electricity
Gaza out of the spotlight…and out of power, gasoline, and cooking gas for that matter
Gaza baby dies after respirator runs out of fuel
It going to be a bad time to be there all around.
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When the UN lets Islamo-facist and banana dictatorships, as well as communists weigh in on human rights cases, it voids their credibility.
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I am not surprised by this at all. It was only a matter of time with the current road they have been on.
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When the UN lets Islamo-facist and banana dictatorships, as well as communists weigh in on human rights cases, it voids their credibility.
So basically anyone the US doesn't like has no right to utilize UN resources. If the UN does not work like a tool for hegemony, time to withdraw?
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Well Israel has been above human rights anyways, I mean they get a free pass to kill Palestinians whenever they want what do they need to be part of the human rights council so this isn't surprising. I still think both sides need to get over themselves and hold hands or something, but I am sure both sides would try to kill me if I threw this thought at them.
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The human rights council has been used as nothing more than a political tool. If they stood for the the things they were supposed to stand for then they would condemn the deliberate Palestinian attacks against innocent Israeli civilians as much as they condemn Israel but they don't.
Another example of this happening outside of the Palestine/Israel debate is that they once considered Libya under Muammar Gaddaffi "exemplary" for it's promotion of "Human Rights". Human rights my ass.
Another example of this happening outside of the Palestine/Israel debate is that they once considered Libya under Muammar Gaddaffi "exemplary" for it's promotion of "Human Rights". Human rights my ass.
I think the UNHRC needs reform, but turning away from international arbitration is not going to accomplish anything.
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Another example of this happening outside of the Palestine/Israel debate is that they once considered Libya under Muammar Gaddaffi "exemplary" for it's promotion of "Human Rights". Human rights my ass.
I think the UNHRC needs reform, but turning away from international arbitration is not going to accomplish anything.
Assuming the arbitration is fair, which it is not.
And according to almost every UN resolution that tried to pass, Hamas has a free pass to fire rockets into Israeli civilian areas without consequence, despite being confirmed in fact finding missions too.
The UN has an abyssmal track record on Human Rights.
The UN Commission on Human Rights was so populated with Human Rights abusers and was so politicized that even the General Assembly finally had to throw its collective hands in the air and abolish the thing.
With such leading lights as: Burkina Faso, China, Congo (Rep), Cuba, Ethiopia, Eretria, Gabon, Guinea, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi, Sudan (Sudan?!?), Swaziland, Togo and Zimbabwe, fully 16 of its 48 members were "Authoritarian regimes" on The Economist's Democracy Index. And that doesn't even count the "Hybrid regimes" like Armenia, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Maruentania, Nepal, Pakistan and Ukraine.
Well, now that the GA has taken the issue out of the hands of ECOSOC and created the UN Human Rights Council, the situation has improved, right?
Well, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Congo, Cuba, Djibouti, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia and Saudi Arabia are there (or still there), so 14 out of 47 seats are held by authoritarian regimes. And there's another 7 hybrids out there. Less than half, but still a hefty number of nations that have no interest in having the lens turned upon their own human rights records, and so are content to use Israel as a scapegoat.
Almost half of the Council's resolutions have been specific to Israel. And despite situations like Darfur, Israel has been the only country to have been condemned by the Council.
The UNO and her agencies have zero credibility when it comes to the promotion of human rights and democratic development. The policy cupboard is bare, and the lunatics are running the asylum. Why should Israel consent to participate in a process whose only goal is, yet again, her own condemnation?
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