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	all4israellapalomita		The U.N. is at it again! In June 2006, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan inaugurated the new United Nations Human Rights Council. The new Council is the successor to the now defunct Human Rights Commission, which was often criticized for its membership of some of the world's worst human rights abusers. There were high hopes that the new body would become the world's leading protector of human rights. At the opening ceremony, Annan said:"This Council represents a great new chance for the United Nations, and for humanity, to renew the struggle for human rights."Despite these high hopes, however, the Council quickly focused on singling Israel out for condemnation while ignoring the worst cases of human rights abuses around the world. The media often holds international bodies such as the UNHRC to be a reference and a guiding moral light. Therefore, HonestReporting recognizes the importance of exposing this new body's unbalanced and politicized agenda. ( Read more...Collapse ) Tags: u.n., united nationsCurrent Mood: anxious

	all4israelzorprime1985		Interesting Wall Street Journal editorial TURTLE BAY DISPATCHWhere Is the Car?Why Kofi Annan said I'm not a "serious journalist."BY JAMES BONE_Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:01 a.m._UNITED NATIONS--Kofi Annan, U.N. secretary-general and Nobel peace laureate, is normally the meekest of diplomats. He is so accommodating he once described Saddam Hussein as a man "I can do business with." These days he spends a good deal of time on the phone with Syria's Bashar al-Assad. Yet he seems to have problem with me.It was with some amusement that I found myself the target of a decidedly undiplomatic tirade by the U.N. chief at a news conference last week. The usually mild Mr. Annan erupted in an ad hominem attack, calling me "cheeky" and belittling me as an "overgrown schoolboy." Although I have covered the U.N. in minute detail for The Times of London since 1988, and have known Mr. Annan for almost all that time, he suggested I was not a "serious journalist."The cause of Mr. Annan's ire was a question I put to him about a Mercedes car that his son Kojo had imported into Ghana (and which cannot, now, be traced). The facts indicate that Kojo had bought the car in his father's name, thereby obtaining a diplomatic discount and a tax exemption totaling more than $20,000. The question about the car--to which Mr. Annan again refused to give a satisfactory answer--is part of the wider probe into his role in the U.N.'s Oil for Food scandal. Despite months of investigation, important questions about the integrity of public officials remain unanswered. If we are serious about U.N. reform--as Mr. Annan claims to be--they must be resolved.( Read more...Collapse ) Tags: u.n., united nations

	all4israelzorprime1985		from http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000728.html December 08, 2005 Failing Grade From VOA: US Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in Israel. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton issued a statement Tuesday unequivocally condemning the bomb attack in the Israeli town of Netanya that killed at least five people. The unusual action came after a U.S. attempt to have the statement issued by the Security Council was rejected. Diplomats attending the meeting say several Council members raised concerns about language in the U.S.-drafted document. Ambassador Bolton, however, blamed Algeria for quashing the measure by objecting to a passage urging Syria to close offices of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which claims responsibility for the attack. ... The U.S. envoy later read the text of the statement to reporters, and lashed out at the Council for what he called "failing to speak the truth". He said "you have to speak up in response to these terrorist attacks. It's a great shame that the Security Council couldn't speak to this terrorist attack in Netanya, but if the Council won't speak, the United States will." Algeria's U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Baali said he had objected to what he called a "lack of balance" in the U.S.-drafted statement. What kind of "balance" can we expect of the U.N.? EYE on the UN reports that Israel wasn't even shown on a map displayed at a recent U.N.-sponsored "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People." Meanwhile, who does the U.N. Security Council continue to treat with kid gloves? Iran, whose president, "Wipe Israel off the map" Ahmadinejad, was in the news today for denying the Holocaust. (First two links via Little Green Footballs.) *UPDATE:* Don't forget: you can vote daily for us in the 2005 Weblog Awards. Posted by Forkum at December 8, 2005 08:43 PMTags: u.n., united nations

	all4israeljustgoto		UN Ceremony Includes Map of ´Palestine´ in Place of Israel 10:24 Dec 09, '05 / 8 Kislev 5766 By Ezra HaLeviThe United Nations held a "Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" last week. A large map of “Palestine,” with Israel literally wiped off the map, featured prominently in the festivities.The ceremony was held at the UN headquarters in New York and was attended by Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Presidents of the UN Security Council and the General Assembly.With the map hanging behind him, Secretary-General Annan addressed the public meeting at UN Headquarters. At the start of the ceremony, the dignitaries present asked attendees to observe a moment of silence. “I invite everyone present to rise and observe a minute of silence in memory of all those who have given their lives for the cause of the Palestinian people,” the master of ceremonies said, “and the return of peace between Israel and Palestine.“ Anne Bayefsky, who reported on the event for the Eye on the UN organization, said that the ceremony's wording was aimed at giving honor to the worst of Palestinian terrorists. "It was a moment ... crafted to include the commemoration of suicide-bombers,” she wrote.In response to the event, Bayefsky and her organization have once again asked the U.S. to withhold funding from the UN.Can you believe the antics of these people?Tags: u.n., united nations




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