On Thursday, Western negotiators at the U.N. caved in to the demands of envoys from Islamic states to renew a modern-day form of the decades-long U.N. smear campaign alleging that the Jewish state is racist. Diplomats agreed on a new “anti-racism” declaration that went public Friday at noon. The document is intended to be adopted by all the heads of state and government in attendance at the U.N. “Durban III” conference to be held in New York City on September 22. So far, nine democratic countries, including the United States, Israel, and Canada, have decided to boycott the event and will not agree to the racist “anti-racism” manifesto. [more...]
Me: A commenter well stated: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany...than the UN." Another commenter wrote: Why is the UN so anti-Israel? Find out in this short, succinct video produced by the Jerusalem Institute for Justice for Boycott Durban III. [Below] The writer says, "Join the demonstration on SEPT 21 across from the U.N. to Boycott Durban III"
Truth bites: (Scroll down)
• 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs who enjoy full equality in all areas of life.
• Arab Israelis have more money, education, rights and freedom than Arabs living in any other country in the Middle East.
• Arab Israeli women were the first Arab Women to receive the right to vote.
• Arab Israelis enjoy a higher GDP than their neighbors in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and all other Muslim nations, with the exception of the oil kingdoms.
• It is estimated that 30% of UNCHR’s (the UNHRC’s predecessor) country specific resolutions were against Israel.
• In 2006-2007, the UN passed 22 resolutions against Israel, but neglected to form a single resolution regarding the ongoing Darfur genocide in Sudan.
• More than 17,000 deadly terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslim extremists since 9/11. How many has Israel committed? Zero.
• Over a thousand civilians have been killed in recent political uprisings and demonstrations in Libya, Egypt and Syria.
• It is estimated that over 70% of the state specific condemnations made by the UNHRC over the last 30 years, have been against Israel.
• Mahmud Ahmadinejad, key note speaker at the past Durban convention, represents a country which tortures and murders its civilians, arrests those who speak against the government, and forbids the international media from entering the country.
• Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recognized, in 2005, that the Commission’s (CHR) “credibility deficit” was “cast[ing] a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system as a whole.”
• The HRC’s resolutions against Israel equal the combined total of country-specific resolutions adopted against all other countries in the world.
• The former CHR and today’s HRC bar Israel from participating in a Regional Group, and from membership in the Commission/Council, therefore making her the only country who cannot participate in the Commission/Council.
On Thursday, Western negotiators at the U.N. caved in to the demands of envoys from Islamic states to renew a modern-day form of the decades-long U.N. smear campaign alleging that the Jewish state is racist. Diplomats agreed on a new “anti-racism” declaration that went public Friday at noon. The document is intended to be adopted by all the heads of state and government in attendance at the U.N. “Durban III” conference to be held in New York City on September 22. So far, nine democratic countries, including the United States, Israel, and Canada, have decided to boycott the event and will not agree to the racist “anti-racism” manifesto. [more...]
Me: A commenter well stated: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany...than the UN." Another commenter wrote: Why is the UN so anti-Israel? Find out in this short, succinct video produced by the Jerusalem Institute for Justice for Boycott Durban III. [Below] The writer says, "Join the demonstration on SEPT 21 across from the U.N. to Boycott Durban III"
Truth bites: (Scroll down)
• 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs who enjoy full equality in all areas of life.
• Arab Israelis have more money, education, rights and freedom than Arabs living in any other country in the Middle East.
• Arab Israeli women were the first Arab Women to receive the right to vote.
• Arab Israelis enjoy a higher GDP than their neighbors in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and all other Muslim nations, with the exception of the oil kingdoms.
• It is estimated that 30% of UNCHR’s (the UNHRC’s predecessor) country specific resolutions were against Israel.
• In 2006-2007, the UN passed 22 resolutions against Israel, but neglected to form a single resolution regarding the ongoing Darfur genocide in Sudan.
• More than 17,000 deadly terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslim extremists since 9/11. How many has Israel committed? Zero.
• Over a thousand civilians have been killed in recent political uprisings and demonstrations in Libya, Egypt and Syria.
• It is estimated that over 70% of the state specific condemnations made by the UNHRC over the last 30 years, have been against Israel.
• Mahmud Ahmadinejad, key note speaker at the past Durban convention, represents a country which tortures and murders its civilians, arrests those who speak against the government, and forbids the international media from entering the country.
• Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recognized, in 2005, that the Commission’s (CHR) “credibility deficit” was “cast[ing] a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system as a whole.”
• The HRC’s resolutions against Israel equal the combined total of country-specific resolutions adopted against all other countries in the world.
• The former CHR and today’s HRC bar Israel from participating in a Regional Group, and from membership in the Commission/Council, therefore making her the only country who cannot participate in the Commission/Council.