Comments on: UNHRC: Ignoring human rights abuses (unless they’re Israel’s) http://www.yourish.com/2009/10/16/9075 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Rahel http://www.yourish.com/2009/10/16/9075/comment-page-1#comment-38103 Rahel Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:49:07 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9075#comment-38103 By this logic -- or lack thereof -- they could have justified the effing Inquisition. Imagine the following: "The delegation indicated that heresy was a crime in Spain/Portugal/Italy/the New World, and reserved the right to protect the purity of its religious faith and practice by...." Uh-huh. Shyeah. By this logic — or lack thereof — they could have justified the effing Inquisition.

Imagine the following:

“The delegation indicated that heresy was a crime in Spain/Portugal/Italy/the New World, and reserved the right to protect the purity of its religious faith and practice by….”

Uh-huh. Shyeah.

]]> By: Eric J http://www.yourish.com/2009/10/16/9075/comment-page-1#comment-38099 Eric J Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:47:21 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=9075#comment-38099 Israel should withdraw from the UN and declare UN officials under arms working in Israeli territories to be enemy combatants. Jews are always the canary in the coalmine for a nation's freedom. Israel is now the global canary for the international system. The UN is going to destroy itself over the next 2-3 decades, and Israel (and the US) will fare better the sooner they can disentangle themselves from the organization and it's actors. And the Palestinians would fare better under Israeli "occupation" than as wards of the UN. Gaza and the West Bank will be the victims of every NGO's pet project and social experiment, Cabrini Green as a failed state. Israel should withdraw from the UN and declare UN officials under arms working in Israeli territories to be enemy combatants. Jews are always the canary in the coalmine for a nation’s freedom. Israel is now the global canary for the international system. The UN is going to destroy itself over the next 2-3 decades, and Israel (and the US) will fare better the sooner they can disentangle themselves from the organization and it’s actors.

And the Palestinians would fare better under Israeli “occupation” than as wards of the UN. Gaza and the West Bank will be the victims of every NGO’s pet project and social experiment, Cabrini Green as a failed state.

]]>