The UN establishes a Holocaust Day

To my utter surprise, the United Nations actually passed a General Assembly resolution establishing a Holocaust Day.

The United Nation’s General Assembly unanimously approved Israel’s resolution and set January 27th as the international Holocaust commemoration day.

Well, it wasn’t exactly unanimous. Out of the 191 member states, only 104 voted for the resolution. The rest did not vote, or voted and then whined.

The approval was expected and no country wanted to object. However, following the approval Muslim countries’ representatives expressed their reservations.

The Egyptian ambassador said that the resolution should have included other genocide cases, claiming that no one has a monopoly on suffering.
The Malaysian representative said that there were other genocides which were no less severe.

Indonesia’s representative protested that the Holocaust was not the only human tragedy. China’s representative protested against the horrors instigated by Japanese soldiers in World War Two, and Venezuela’s representative protested the dropping of American nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I believe the representative from Venezuela should check his UN inbox more often. Or perhaps he was unavailable for this UN commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima. Or this one. Schmuck.

The Reuters article, of course, is rife with “but other people suffered too!” remarks, thus missing entirely the point of the Holocaust Day, but hey, it’s not like we didn’t expect it. I cannot find the AP article on MyWay.com. I’m sure one will pop up.

I also intend to find the list of the countries that did not vote for it. Anyone want to start placing bets on how many of the OIC nations are missing from the list? My guess is 95%.