Posted on 07/23/2014 12:28:22 PM PDT by opentalk
– The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Wednesday to consider a draft resolution that condemns Israel repeatedly for its military offensive against Hamas, but does not mention the terrorist group once.
The resolution calls for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry to probe allegations that Israel has committed war crimes and violated international law.
Alongside multiple criticisms of Israel – whose conduct the council “condemns,” “strongly condemns” and “condemns in the strongest terms” – there is a single reference in the three-page type written draft to rocket attacks on Israeli civilians
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Who is surprised?
The UN and Obama gave Hamas money
to kill and for their tunnels to hide
under infants and hospitals.
The U.N. is a steaming pile of toxic excrement.
...The Obama administration joined the HRC in 2009, reversing its predecessor’s policy of shunning it for several stated reasons, at the forefront of which were the presence of human rights-abusing regimes, and an anti-Israel bias
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No mention of Hamas. No mention of human shields. A word or two on rockets. But then kudus to the council for doing what they do, condemn Israel. Membership here. Thanks to Obama reversing GWB's refusal to join the council, this condemnation comes from the US as well. The US did participate by casting a dissenting vote. I'll post the US statement as soon as I see one. No one hold their breath.
FUUN
(Has a nice ring to it!)
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