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UN singles out Israel for human rights abuse
Associated Press
Published: 20.06.07, 00:27
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1. Mah Nishtana....
BC ,   California   (06.20.07)
2. as you can see
leonard ,   USA   (06.20.07)
All the world except the Brit. the USA and Australia and maybe a few more I may not know of are hatefull of Israel. WHY? Because Israel is GOD's chosen people. It's as simple as that. Thousands of years have past and nothing has changed. GOD bless and protect Israel. A stiff neck people. God said that, not me.
3. no comment necessary
Eli ,   USA   (06.20.07)
Why bother anymore?
4. Only Israel gets screwed - so "we have a basis to work with"
Raymond from DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (06.20.07)
So says Michael Steiner of Germany. And the EU wants to see how the council can perform based on this disgrace. Can the UN sink any lower? It has become a cesspool of political corruption and hypocrisy, where the lunatics run the asylum. It has no moral credibility. Too often it seems to do more harm than good. Given how the "reforms" of the Human Rights Commission worked out, I think it is beyond redemption. Strip out a few useful agencies (e.g. WHO, UNICEF) and shut it down.
5. There is no more shame
VG   (06.20.07)
The UN and the world have come down to do and say things in public that only a decade ago they wouldn't have deared to say or do. Guys it is time to repent and go back to G-D for only he can save us. we are living the 1930's all over again LET US ALL WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
6. Human Rights Council? HRC? It only means...
enzo ,   london,uk   (06.20.07)
HRC= How Ridiculous Can you be?
7. do you know what un stands for!!!!!!
robert ,   farmington,wv   (06.20.07)
The U.N stands for united nutcases Israel is going to come under fire for anything they do, if they wipe there butts wrong they are going to hear about it, unbelievable.may the lords angels stand watch over jerusalem.
8. Simply breathtaking
Steve G ,   Kew Gardens,NYC   (06.20.07)
This is the the single-most breathtaking act of stupidity and bigotry ever taken by a UN agency. (Except the previous one) This in no way can top the idiocy of the General Assembly, but then they are the reigning world champions of such resolutions. All this proves is that this civilization must wean itself off the use of oil for energy as quickly as possible.
9. United Nazis aren\t news any more
(06.20.07)
We can wipe with their paper investigations The whole ME -except Israel- and Africa are the most brutal countries opon Earth
10. is this suprising? I think not..its par for the coarse
jack bauer ,   usa   (06.20.07)
The UN UNIFIL UNHCR and all other UN affiliates are a well known..... JOKE
11. UN makes the MOST ABUSIVE POLICIES DOUBLE STD in the world !
ben ,   singapore   (06.20.07)
Policies of Double Standards !
12.  UN on FROLIC of their OWN
ben ,   singapore   (06.20.07)
Palestinians bear no responsibility for their own actions. But the UN has taken the blaming FROLIC over Israel for the situation in Gaza.
13. Well what did we expect
Danny   (06.20.07)
The UN recently appointed Zimbabwe to head the sustainable development commission. We have a IAEA head who doesn't think it is his job to make Iran comply with UNSC resolutions. We have UNWRA officials who regularly as clockwork claim that Gaza is going to become a humanitarian diasaster "in the next few days" for the last year. Now we have Israel singled out over Belarus and Cuba, and being lectured on human rights by China, Algeria and Saudi.
14. Racist decision buy a body run by monkeys
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.20.07)
15. ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!
Matt ,   STL, MO, USA   (06.20.07)
What was the first clue? Building an Apartheid Wall inside the 1967 borders? Bulldozing civilian homes? Constructing "settler only" roads? Settlements? Occupation? Firing missiles into civilian areas? Not recognizing a democratically elected government? Taxation with out representation?
16. Goes to show you
J K ,   NYC, USA   (06.20.07)
Everything old is new again. Brand new UN Council. Same results. This is why people are dying daily in Darfur....because the UN is toothless and obsessively focuses on Israel. What a joke of an organization. I'm ashamed to live in the same city as the UN.
17. Typical UN tripe
Joe ,   Ohio, USA   (06.20.07)
18. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
NYC Girl   (06.20.07)
That woman has more balls than all those Third World fascists and tin pot dictators put together. The UN has become nothing more than a rat's nest of terrorists and their sycophantic supporters, and Ros-Lehtinen is one of the few people who has the courage to tell them that to their faces.
19. "The large Muslim and African groups, which dominate
ilana   (06.20.07)
the council....." Gee, who would have guessed. I wonder what condi thinks of this? It would be funny, if not so tragic for ANY ONE country being singles out.
20. Self respect....
Arthur ,   SF, CA   (06.20.07)
If leaders of Israel would only had self respect, if if they would only had a fear of the Holy One - they would quit that dispicable United Goyim aganst the Jews organization long time ago.
21. Tell the UN to keep digging its own grave
Bridget ,   USA   (06.20.07)
And may the US cease funding it.
22. UN is dominated by little Moslem Dictatorships
Lemmings Hotline ,   sd usa   (06.20.07)
They do more harm than good by putting a good face on a lot of evil.
23.  CLOWN'S
Marcel ,   Florida   (06.20.07)
This is a big laugh. The irrevelant U.N. can go after Israel because they don't sell oil or cut off heads of those who speak ill of them. A cowardly clan of clowns, inept and having lost any credibllity has nothing to say about Hamas or Hizbollah atrocities BECAUSE IT MIGHT COST THEIR HEADS.
24. Unbelievable! Who is the ones providing food to the hundreds
Korem ,   New York, USA   (06.20.07)
of Palestinian refugees at Erez? ISRAEL! Who is treating Palestinian wounded- civilians and terrorists? ISRAEL! Who is housing Sudanese refugees? ISRAEL!
25. Didn't even read this article
Isabella ,   Israel   (06.20.07)
the headline says it all. So, no news there then. Wonder how the people in Dafur feel about the UN paying so much attention to us. Could it be to avoid them? Probably
26. Whose genius idea was it anyway...
Ar   (06.20.07)
Whose idea was it to populate a HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL with countries that by and large are teh worst of the worst offenders? That's right only Israel, where people are free to practice their religion, vote, sue the government, own property, have free speech, the rule of law, democractic elections, compensation, has a pluralistic society, takes in refugees, etc is the problem... Oh I know, it's because we don't roll over and die when terrorists tell us to, we fight back. Silly us for not marching ourselves dutifully into the sea. Seriously, when will this ridicoulousness stop? Can anyone speak sense?
27. Next move? They start only bashing Israel and the US
(06.20.07)
The EU will fold, because we know that there is a complete lack of spine over there
28. Deja Vu
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29. Why should we support Israel
Mark ,   La Jolla, CA   (06.20.07)
Why should the US continue to support Israel? What is in it for us? This is an honest question. What has Israel given the US? I think we should let the cards fall as they may. If Israel destroys a few Arab states with it's nukes, so be it or vice versa. I'm tired of wasting our time , money, and lives in the Middle East. Will somebody just get it over with. The fact is according to their holy books Israel will not give up its land and the Arabs will never want peace. This will go on forever.
30. Who cares what the UselessNations say.
Avraham ,   Netivot   (06.20.07)
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