The Human Rights Council this afternoon held general debates under its agenda items on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories and on the follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.The fact that Syria, currently in the process of slaughtering its populace, is given a voice, much less credence, in this forum tells you everything you need to know about it.
Opening the general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented the High Commissioner’s report that contained information received from Turkey concerning the implementation of the fact-finding mission’s conclusions on the incident of the humanitarian flotilla; the progress report of the High Commissioner on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 19/18 entitled "Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict"; and the Secretary-General’s report relating to Council resolution 19/17 concerning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan.
Palestine, speaking as a concerned country, called on the Council to bring pressure on Israel to comply with international law and to put an end to its occupation and the continued attacks on Palestinian citizens, property and infrastructure. Efforts should be made to put an end to the attacks of Israeli settlers against Palestinians.
Turkey, speaking as a concerned country, said more than two years had passed and Israel had taken no effective steps to redress the humanitarian flotilla incident of May 2010. On the contrary, it had chosen to enhance its reputation of non-compliance, and felt free to use disproportionate force whenever and wherever.
Syria, speaking as a concerned country, said that the Israeli forces continued their violations in a systematic and persistent manner. The Council and the Office of the High Commissioner must not remain silent before such practices and should not be put under pressure by the State committing State terrorism...
Update: More gruesome details on the "concerned country's" torture centers.
Update: Obama throws Israel to the UN's "human rights" wolves.
Update: "Concerned country" Turkey isn't exactly a paragon of human rights.
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As Scaramouche's second update points out, the Obama Administration is quite willing to have Israel pilloried by Pillay--sorry, I couldn't resist--in exchange for having the U. N. Commissioner for Human Rights _brief_ the Security Council on the savagery going on in Syria. (Boy, I bet the Assad government is quaking in its boots over that!)
Just imagine: if, badly needing American Jewish support in a fast-approaching, difficult Presidential election, he is willing to humiliate Israel like this, what might he not do if he does get reelected?
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