US refuses to join UN rights council, citing bias against Israel
Waa, waaa, waaaa.....
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Tue Mar 6, 4:16 PM ET
The United States will not seek a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, senior officials said Tuesday, asserting the body had lost its credibility with repeated attacks on Israel and a failure to confront other rights abusers.
"While we continue to remain very engaged on the issue on human rights within the UN system, whether that is the General Assembly or the Security Council, we do not plan this year to run for the human rights council," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns linked the decision to remain off the year-old council to the 47-member panel's stance on Israel, which he said had "discredited" the body.
"It spent the entire year slamming Israel -- four separate hearings by the Human Rights Council of the UN on Israel, but not against Burma, and not against Zimbabwe, and not against North Korea and not against Iran," Burns told a congressional hearing.
The council was created over the objections of the United States, which said there were insufficient safeguards to prevent human rights-abusing nations from dominating the group. It's members are chosen from among UN states each year.
McCormack did not rule out having Washington run for a seat on the council in future.
"If we do come to the day when we decide to run for the Human Rights Council, it will have gotten to the point where it is a credible institution and that we could, in fact, lend our diplomatic weight to the council as a participant," he said.
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Bias? Damn right, we've got bias!
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Harsh words by a delegation of German bishops during a weekend visit to Israel, including a reference to "Ghetto Ramallah," aroused consternation at the German Embassy yesterday. "It is difficult to understand how they could say these things, the embassy said. "Only a few hours earlier the head of the delegation said moving things during a visit to Yad Vashem."...
the concept of cause and effect are entirely foreign to them - it's as if they're wearing hypocrisy colored glasses and see reality in reverse.
Bizarre and inexplicable.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
The truth is that the US represented by its current regime has nothing to do in the Human Rights Council!
We all know why: Guantanamo, Abu Graib, "estraordinary rendition", violation of the Geneva conventions, military targeting of hospitals, journalists etc.
It would be dispelled more quickly than it would be admitted.
Let us realize that the only real axis of evil we have, the axis connecting Washington DC and Tel Aviv is not part of humanity and the international community.
Color me guilty. I'm biased against rapists.
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Israeli legislators vote against ousting rapist president
Israeli legislators vote against ousting president
Mar 7, 2007, 16:27 GMT
Jerusalem - Members of an Israeli parliamentary committee voted against ousting Israeli President Moshe Katsav Wednesday, Israeli media reported.
Only seven out of 25 members of the Knesset Committee voted in favour of the proposal calling for dismissing Katsav, who is currently on a voluntary leave of absence over allegations that he sexually harassed several former female employees in his office....
The one part of humankind that they so fear. See the 3 part Umoja village documentary.
http://fluxrostrum.blogspot.com/2007/03/umoja-village-taking-back-land.h...
I bet there is some israeli peeing his diaper full over this bit of real life doing the HARD necessary work of repair. Sure points a shining light on the path for them doesn't it?
Mess with the logic of this group and try to spin it and it will just ignore your futile ranting and go around you to the real power.
First you take D.C. Then you take New York.
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