The new UN Human Rights Council (known in this blog as the Human Wrongs Council) is holding its third session on Israel since its creation. In June.
GENEVA Nov 13, 2006 (AP)— The new U.N. Human Rights Council said it will hold a third special session Wednesday on Israel, focusing on alleged rights abuses in Gaza.
The council, created earlier this year to replace the highly politicized and much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Commission, has drawn fire from the United States for spending a great deal of time criticizing Israel. The U.S. is not a member of the body.
This week’s meeting in Geneva was requested by Bahrain and Pakistan on behalf of Arab and Muslim groups “to consider and take action on the gross human rights violations emanating from Israeli military incursions” in Gaza, the council said in a statement on Monday.
Buried deep at the end of this short piece is this information:
The U.N. top rights watchdog, which took over from the former Human Rights Commission in June, held two special sessions this summer to discuss an earlier Israeli offensive in Gaza and the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon.
U.S. officials say the council has made a slow and discouraging start and says it serves as a forum for political games.
Both those paragraphs should have been in the lead, where they’d show up in your local papers “International” section. The result of putting them down there is that only the first few paragraphs, which talk about how evil Israel is, show up. The anti-Israel media bias of the AP, as usual.
If the HRC has managed to talk about anything but Israel, it’s tough to find at their website. But it’s great to know the Dems want to remove John Bolton, the one man at the UN who tells them what a bunch of anti-Semitic creeps they really are.
Orwellian.
They’d do better to focus on the human rights violations committed by Muslim states than on Israel’s defending itself.
I cringe to think of what the Benighted Nations will be like after the Democrats shoot down John Bolton.
As for anti-Israel bias, a photographer who would rather be honest than employed has just caught Time Magazine in a politically correct lie.
Actually, that photographer (Bruno Stevens) has been accused of anti-Israel bias himself. Though I can’t imagine why. Just because he referred to the “fauxtography” exposé as “ultra-zionist blogs raving” and insisted that Israel was really targeting Red Cross ambulances in Lebanon? Or maybe it was his efforts to document the alleged use of Israeli cluster bombs against civilians. Read all about it.