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UN rights body holds moment of silence for Gaza 'martyrs'
Haaretz.com (AP story) ^ | March 4, 2008 | Associated Press

Posted on 03/04/2008 11:24:42 AM PST by waimea.man

The United Nations Human Rights Council held a moment of silence Tuesday for martyrs in Gaza killed in an Israel Defense Forces offensive in the Strip, after a request by Iran's foreign minister.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called for the gesture on behalf of the women and children who are "nowadays under attack by the Zionist regime," the term Iranian officials use for Israel because they do not recognize its right to exist.

"I would like ... to request one minute silence and ask my Muslim brothers and sisters to read the Fatah for those martyrs in Gaza," he asked the council president, referring to the opening verse in the Koran. The room was silent for about 30 seconds. Those present said no one stood.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; humanrights; iran; un; unhrc
Well ain't that special.
1 posted on 03/04/2008 11:24:43 AM PST by waimea.man
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To: waimea.man

The UN? FM!


2 posted on 03/04/2008 11:25:40 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: waimea.man
Of course the Jews in Sderot and Ashkelon don't count. They're just Zionist settlers who need to be removed to Alaska.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 03/04/2008 11:25:54 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: waimea.man

Yes...absolutely special. I am sure the Nazis did the same “silence for martyrs” everytime a SS guard slipped into the gas chamber accidently

Every American politician who does not support the removal of the US from the UN is contributing to the problem of Islamic Terrorism


4 posted on 03/04/2008 11:27:48 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Anyone Notice....But It Is Only The Low-Rated Talk Radio Hosts That Support McCain)
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To: waimea.man

What a load of unadulterated w*nk.

Sorry, I’m past my Muslim cr*p limit for the day.


5 posted on 03/04/2008 11:27:56 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: waimea.man

A silent UN? Is that a bad thing?


6 posted on 03/04/2008 11:30:34 AM PST by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: goldstategop

I don’t recall the UN ever holding silence for the innocent Israeli school children and their mothers.


7 posted on 03/04/2008 11:32:51 AM PST by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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To: waimea.man
The UN "Human Rights Council" is downright Orwellian. The worst of the worst do nothing but slam Israel, and for a change of pace every now and then, the US.

This, from a country that denies the Holocaust and routinely executes its citizens for trivial crimes in the cruelest, most painful ways.

Need I ask whether this bunch of hypocritical fascists have ever observed a moment for the innocent civilians of Sderot killed by rockets from unoccupied Gaza???

8 posted on 03/04/2008 11:34:05 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: waimea.man

What else is new?


9 posted on 03/04/2008 11:40:57 AM PST by wastedyears (Iron Maiden in two weeks' time.)
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To: goldstategop

No joke.

If the terrorists weren’t attacking Israel, Israel wouldn’t have to respond.

The cesspool that is the UN needs to be pushed into the ocean.


10 posted on 03/04/2008 11:41:15 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: waimea.man

Would these be the women and children that the cowardly spineless towel heads place on top of the building to use as human shields? This is a ploy used by every no-backboned Arab in history. Why should these jerks be any different?


11 posted on 03/04/2008 11:49:24 AM PST by Wavrnr10 (Eagles soar but weasels don't get sucked in jet engines)
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To: waimea.man

The UN approved the creation of the State of Israel. The UN now favors terrorists. What happened in the meantime?


12 posted on 03/04/2008 11:52:57 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: waimea.man

Most of those killed were Palistinian terrorists who were shooting rockets into Israeli civilian territory.


13 posted on 03/04/2008 11:53:41 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: waimea.man
Well, at least they are consistent. They supported Islamic thug separatists in Kosovo.
14 posted on 03/04/2008 12:07:47 PM PST by SQUID
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To: waimea.man

fox, henhouse, wtf?


15 posted on 03/04/2008 12:11:05 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: waimea.man

A moment of silent snickering.


16 posted on 03/04/2008 12:28:32 PM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: waimea.man

Bastards! IF indeed women and children were killed, and that is a big IF, then they should be remembered, and then the blame put solely on the SOB’s that are responsible. The terrorist muzzies and their god the devil.


17 posted on 03/04/2008 12:49:18 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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18 posted on 03/04/2008 3:41:34 PM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: waimea.man

BARF.


19 posted on 03/04/2008 7:14:05 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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To: waimea.man

I just want to thank you America for sticking by Israel

We feel very much alone and hated, just because we exist.

I don’t undertstand that, at all.


20 posted on 03/05/2008 7:20:37 AM PST by Yitzchak
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To: waimea.man

Weak-kneed, spineless jellyfish.


21 posted on 03/05/2008 7:29:25 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Brush your hair and comb your teeth, honey - Obama's comin' to town!!!)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
The League of Nations was created to "prevent war" and failed. The UN was created to do what the League failed. Now the UN has failed...

The US Congress should pass a resolution never to enter into another failed global structure. We were warned back in 1919 by Sen Lodge.

22 posted on 03/05/2008 7:49:17 AM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: waimea.man

The John Birch Society is right on the money!


23 posted on 03/05/2008 7:53:54 AM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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