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by Jagdish N. Singh
• September 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
- What makes the UN
Human Rights Council (UNHRC) ignore such rights violations? The answer
is simple: most of the member states of the Council are themselves the
worst violators of rights of their own citizens, and they are trying to
save each other through a conspiracy of corruption.
- When Hamas was raining
rockets down on Israel, most members of the UNHRC seemed unconcerned
that Jerusalem might have had moral and legal obligations to protect its
citizens.
- The horror is that
so many corrupt countries go along with it to protect their own
corruption. More sickening is that countries pretending to stand for
freedom, such as the United States, fund nearly a quarter of the UN's
budget.
- It is time for
those who truly care about human rights to dismantle this show.
Like it or not, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a big flop. It
does not care a fig for what it is supposed to do: promote and protect human
rights in general, and freedom of association, assembly, expression, belief
and religion, sexual preference and women's rights and the rights of racial
and ethnic minorities in particular.
The past record of the UNHRC shows it has overlooked rights violations
in a large part of the world in general and the Middle East in particular.
The UNHRC has notoriously been obsessed with inventing rights violations by
Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, where women and minorities -- the
most oppressed sections in most of the nations in the world -- enjoy equality
in law and practice both. Since March 2006, when the UN General Assembly
brought the UNHRC into existence, it has condemned Israel 61 times, compared
to just 55 condemnations of all other nations in the world combined.
by Raymond Ibrahim
• September 24, 2015 at 4:00 am
- Why are Christian
minorities, who are the most to suffer from the chaos engulfing the
Middle East, the least wanted in the United States?
- To the Obama
administration, the only "real" refugees are those made so due
to the actions of Bashar Assad. As for those who are being raped,
slaughtered, and enslaved based on their religious identity by so-called
"rebel" forces fighting Assad -- including the Islamic State
-- their status as refugees is evidently considered dubious at best.
- The Obama
administration never seems to miss an opportunity to display its bias
for Muslims against Christians. The State Dept. is in the habit of
inviting scores of Muslim representatives but denying visas to solitary
Christian representatives. While habitually ignoring the slaughter of
Christians at hands of Boko Haram, the administration called for the
"human rights" of the jihadi murderers.
- In Islamic usage,
the "cause of Allah" is synonymous with jihad to empower and
enforce Allah's laws on earth, or Sharia. In this context, immigrating
into Western lands is a win-win for Muslims: if they die in the process
somehow, paradise is theirs; if they do not, the "locations and abundance"
of the West are theirs.
- Muslims all around
the U.S. are supporting the Islamic State and Muslim clerics are relying
on the refugee influx to conquer Western nations, in the Islamic
tradition of Hijrah, or jihad by emigration.
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Members of California's Iraqi Christian community and
their supporters protest the months-long detention of Iraqi Christian
asylum-seekers at the Otay Mesa detention center. (Image source Al Jazeera
video screenshot)
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The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State
only to be incarcerated in the United States has finally been decided by the
Obama administration: they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they
will likely be persecuted, if not slaughtered, like so many Iraqi Christians
before them.
Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention
center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be
deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are
being charged with immigration fraud.
by Peter Huessy
• September 24, 2015 at 3:00 am
- Two new studies
have confirmed that this fear is justified. Iran will be able quickly to
produce nuclear weapons fuel even under the terms of the JCPOA.
- Iran can emerge in
15-20 years, or less, as a nuclear power with the potential, at a time
of its choosing, "to make enough weapon-grade uranium for several
nuclear weapons within a few weeks." – David Albright, founder and
president of the Institute for Science and International Security.
- If sanctions failed
to do the job, and if Iran engaged in future illegal nuclear activity --
no matter how serious -- would the U.S. use military force? When the
U.S. and its allies discovered that North Korea had illegally built a
nuclear weapon and massively cheated on the agreed framework, did anyone
use military force to stop its effort? No.
- The likelihood is
far greater that the U.S. will look the other way in order not to admit
that the deal it agreed to is a dud.
- Iran has already
repeatedly attacked the United States, from the murder of 241 Marines in
Lebanon in 1983, to the attack on Khobar Towers; the murder of Americans
over Lockerbie; the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya; the attack on
the USS Cole; has been complicit in the attacks of September 11, 2001;
is still holding four Americans hostages and, openly, is daily
threatening America again.
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The Arak heavy water reactor, in Iran, is capable of
producing plutonium. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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Congressional supporters of the nuclear deal with Iran (the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) and the P5+1 partners, seem to see
matters from the perspective of whether the International Atomic Energy
Administration (IAEA) and allied intelligence agencies will be able to detect
future Iranian cheating.[1]
Possibly feeling confident that they will be able to, Congressional
supporters may have concluded that the agreement will buy the United States
and its allies sufficient time to re-impose sanctions to ensure future
Iranian compliance with the deal.
Let us assume for argument's sake that the IAEA and allied intelligence
services will, in fact, readily detect Iranian cheating on the new nuclear
deal. This anti-cheating detection capability -- critically important as it
is -- would largely entail determining that Iran was enriching more uranium
than allowed or keeping such enriched material, contrary to the terms of the
agreement.
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