The UN is keeping up its tradition of ignoring all human rights offenses of the Arab and Muslim nations (cf: Executing gays in Iran, drug dealers in Saudi Arabia, whippings, cutting off of hands, “honor killings,” the status of women and non-Muslims, etc., etc., etc.) and concentrating solely on Israel. And this time, the special, ah, rapporteur (can we dump the stupid French words already?) is: A Jew. Actually, I think he’s what Snoopy calls an “Assajew.”
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the territories has accused Israel of failing to halt settlement expansion in keeping with the Annapolis protocols and of violating the Geneva Conventions in Gaza.
Richard Falk, an American Jewish law professor who has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, recommended Thursday that the UN resume economic assistance to Gaza irrespective of whether Hamas satisfies political conditions set by Israel.
He also suggested that the General Assembly ask the International Court of Justice to conduct an assessment of Israeli actions in Gaza and said the UN should ask Switzerland to convene a review of Israel’s compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
This guy’s going all-out in his effort to delegitimize the State of Israel, and yet, does he say a word about the Hamas repression of Palestinians in Gaza? I’m thinking… no.
He cited increased checkpoint security in the West Bank as evidence that the Israeli government was reneging on promises made at Annapolis, which were “specifically understood to commit Israel both to ease restrictions on movement of Palestinians subject to occupation and to freeze settlement activity.”
Hm. Increased checkpoint security. Now why would that be? Could it be perhaps because the Palestinians have been increasing their attempts to murder Israelis by smuggling bombs through the checkpoints?
IDF troops guarding Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus, apprehended a Palestinian youth after a pipe bomb was found on his person. The bomb was detonated in a controlled environment, and the youth was transferred to security forces for questioning.
The youth arrived from the direction of Nablus on Saturday, and roused the suspicion of the soldiers. They asked him to lower his bag and step back, and a search of the bag revealed the pipe bomb.
Don’t be silly. There can’t be a logical reason for it. In the world of the UN, there are no excuses for Israel to be subjecting Palestinians to searches whatsoever. In the world of the UN, there is no reason for an armed presence anywhere within Israel, you see. Israel should just disarm herself completely and submit to the will of the Palestinians, presumably. In which case, there would shortly be no Jews left in Israel.
Israel, of course, is protesting. It’s futile, but it must be done.
Israeli envoy Ady Schonmann, a human rights expert in the Foreign Ministry, appeared before the committee to criticize the report, saying that it reflected the “partisan political position which has taken root at the Human Rights Council.”
[…] Schonmann protested the “unbalanced nature” of Falk’s report, which did not take into account terrorist acts perpetrated by the Palestinians and legitimized Hamas while ignoring “the fact that Hamas’s own leaders continue to call for the total destruction of the State of Israel, to reject a two-state solution, to reject the Annapolis process and to declare their active support for terrorism.”
Schonmann also criticized Falk for relying on anonymous sources and cherry-picking academics to support his claims.
So how did Falk come back? By whining that Israel refused to give him a visa into Gaza. Yeah, probably because they figured no matter what, he’d come up with an anti-Israel report like this. And to see just how effing idiotic this man is:
Falk’s appointment by the UN’s Human Rights Council was roundly rejected by Israel, which cited Falk’s comparison in 2007 of Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Nazi treatment of Jews in Germany.
Falk told the BBC in an April interview that he made the comparison to shock Americans, adding that he felt the Gaza situation was akin to the crisis in Darfur or the repression of Tibet.
Sure. It’s just like Darfur, where Muslims are murdering, raping, and enslaving Africans, with an estimated 200,000 killed. Yep. Just like it. The Israelis must be hiding the mass graves or something. But hey, Falk feels like it’s the same, and in this modern world, feelings are facts. Just ask the Obamatons.
Either that miserable POS wasn’t informed that Israel left Gaza in 2005 or he just loves Israel-bashing so much (I choose the latter) that he proposes that the GA “conduct an assessment of Israeli actions in Gaza” when there are no Israelis or Israeli actions in Gaza.
It’s how Falk keeps feeling progressive, since the Palestinians are, as Senator Obama once said, the most oppressed people on earth.
Anyway, Falk is doing nothing wrong. In the next week or so I will e-mail Meryl with the Bensky Bifurcated Method of Middle Eastern Political Analysis. That, with my previously announced Bensky Corollary to Absolutely Everything (which Meryl, no doubt in deference to my innate modesty, calls “the Exception Clause”) will explain precisely why many people view the problem as they do.