FN-råd får skarp kritik -- vägrar tolerera mer

SvD skriver om att Condoleeza Rice fått israeliska och palestinska ledare att mötas för regelbundna samtal. Med tanke på Hamas mål att utplåna Israel (visas bl a av att man hjärntvättar barn till självmordsbombare i t ex denna post) känns detta dessvärre inte hoppfullt utan mer som en paus inför nya våldsutbrott (det slutliga våldsutbrottet jobbar Iran på...). En del lär hoppas att samtal med Fatah-ledaren ska marginalisera Hamas. Frågan är om inte risken för det motsatta finns? Men långsiktig fred måste ju bygga på kommunikation så även om hoppet är litet är dessa samtal knappast fel.

Hillel Neuers tal
Denna mellanösternkonflikt kommer på ett naturligt sätt upp i det kärnfulla starka tal UN Watchs chef Hillel Neuers höll inför FN:s råd för mänskliga rättigheter i Genève i fredags (tips: Atlas Shrugs).



Hillels tal ramas in av frågan vad Eleanor Roosevelt, Réné Cassin och andra som lade grunden för kommissionen för mänskliga rättigheter nu skulle ha ansett att det blivit av deras nobla dröm (hela texten).

Ett avsnitt ur talet:

"Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided? Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal. One might say, in Harry Truman’s words, that this has become a Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council. But that would be inaccurate. This Council has, after all, done something. It has enacted one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel. In eight pronouncements—and there will be three more this session—Hamas and Hezbollah have been granted impunity. The entire rest of the world—millions upon millions of victims, in 191 countries—continue to go ignored. So yes, this Council is doing something. And the Middle East dictators who orchestrate this campaign will tell you it is a very good thing. That they seek to protect human rights, Palestinian rights. So too, the racist murderers and rapists of Darfur women tell us they care about the rights of Palestinian women; the occupiers of Tibet care about the occupied; and the butchers of Muslims in Chechnya care about Muslims. But do these self-proclaimed defenders truly care about Palestinian rights? Let us consider the past few months. More than 130 Palestinians were killed by Palestinian forces. This is three times the combined total that were the pretext for calling special sessions in July and November. Yet the champions of Palestinian rights—Ahmadinejad, Assad, Khaddafi, John Dugard—they say nothing. Little 3-year-old boy Salam Balousha and his two brothers were murdered in their car by Prime Minister Haniyeh’s troops. Why has this Council chosen silence? Because Israel could not be blamed. Because, in truth, the dictators who run this Council couldn’t care less about Palestinians, or about any human rights."

Islamisk bank i FN-tjänst
I samma post skriver Pamela även om att den islamiska utvecklingsbanken av FN garanterats observatörsstatus. En bank som anses finansiera terror via exempelvis Al Aqsa-fonden och "The Jerusalem Intifada Fund". (Vad mänskliga rättigheter beträffar kan nog befaras att man diskriminerar ickemuslimer.) Länkar och mer info på Pamelas blog.


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