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by Denis MacEoin
• August 9, 2014 at 5:00 am
When anyone
tries to take the floor of the United Nations Human Rights Council and
reveal the truth about abusive states, watch the abusers press their
buzzers and demand that the truth-teller be stopped from speaking.
Expecting the UNHRC to carry out a fair, balanced or accurate
investigation of anything involving the State of Israel is rather like
expecting the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to carry out
investigations into persecution of Christians in Muslim countries.
The impact
of the OIC and its many backers in Africa and elsewhere has led to a
cynical failure on the part of the UN, the world leading human rights
body, to address the greatest rights abuses of the modern age. North
Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Cuba, Nigeria or other of the
world's great tyrannies…are never criticized.
(Image
source: UN Watch)
The United Nations Human Rights Council [UNHRC] convened an
emergency session on July 23, 2014, to consider the plight of
Palestinians in Gaza during the war between Israel and the terrorist
organization, Hamas. The session was held at the request of the
coordinators of the Group of Arab States, the Group of African States,
the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Movement of Non-Aligned
Countries and the "state of Palestine," in a letter, dated July
18, to the UNHRC President. At that session, 29 out of 47 member states
voted (1 against — USA — and 17 abstentions) to dispatch urgently
"an independent, international commission of inquiry" to
investigate "all violations of international human rights laws and
international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory
[sic], including East Jerusalem, particularly in the Gaza Strip."
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