News
UN human rights chief backs Goldstone report
Reuters
Published: 15.10.09, 17:15
Comment Comment
Print comment Print comment
Back to article
25 Talkbacks for this article
1. UN is a total failure, will never be anything worthwhile.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (10.15.09)
Countries with no human rights are running the place and Israel would be well served to kick UNRWA out and tell the world the UN has no power to do anything as that is the TRUTH. They can't stop the KILLING anywhere, they are useless.
2. Zippy Livni
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (10.15.09)
Zippy Livni's only "success" was UN 1701 ending the Lebanon II debacle. Now we see that not only was UN 1701 a failure, letting Hezbolla rearm to pose an even greater threat to Israel, the same UN condemns Zippy and her friends Olmert and Barak as war criminals.
3. see #18 at the following link
Lior ,   Israel   (10.15.09)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3790355,00.html The last sentence reads: The die is cast. The best place place for a Jew (in the eyes of much of the world) is with their back up against a wall.... And there we are!
4. What occupied territories?
Matityahu   (10.15.09)
Every territory Israel is posessing has been won in defensive wars. Occupation is a myth. and so is the UN's ability to do anything good.
5. Israel should do everything possible to impede the UN
meir elazar   (10.15.09)
IT is clear that the only purpose of the UN today is to bash Israel at every opportunity. Israel should not contribute or cooperate with the UN. Their trucks are used to smuggle weapons and explosives to the Palestinians. As such Israel should COMPLETELY disassemble all trucks bound for Gaza at least 5 times to check for weapons before they get through. Note that drug smugglers hide narcotics in places you would not believe in their vehicles (radiators, engines, transmission, seats, etc.). The paper work and authorizations should take weeks for each vehicle. And the more hostile they are, the worse we should make it on them.
6. Full backing and passing of this report best thing for Israe
(10.15.09)
First of all this mixing and lumping of IDF with Hamas, of comparing Jewish soldiers with muslim terrorists is demoralizing and disgusting, it is offensive and IT SHOULD OFFEND any self respecting Jew. If that will end once and for all the idiotic politics of peace and the so called peace process which is really a piece by piece process of dismantling of Israel, then this report is help from God to end the insanity.
7. If the UN had been this passionate about Darfur . . .
robin ,   israel   (10.15.09)
there would be no more murders and rapes there.
8. UN IS A TERRORIST SUPPORING ENTITY THAT MUST BE KICKED OUT
UN=ARAB LEAGUE 2   (10.15.09)
OF NY!
9. No such thing as "occupied" territories!!!!!!!!!
King David   (10.15.09)
The UN/Arabs And the rest of the Jew-haters try to distort history as they see fit in order to destroy Israel! No such thing as WEST BANK either! Its called Judea and Samaria for the past 3000 years!
10. UN
New Yorker ,   New York   (10.15.09)
UN is just an instrument. It can only be as good as its worst member. But it's not the real issue here. The issue is that the world, its nations do harbor medeaval hatred against the Jews, including the more advanced among them. Israel is currently and perhaps always was in the position of Alfred Dreyfus. Guilty or not guilty - she is condemned. And this is the reality. During the trial of Alfred Dreyfus the nearly solitary voice of reason was that of Emile Zola - he had to flee for his life across the channel for that. The likes of Zola are miraculous exceptions. There may not materialize one this time around. Stupid and cowardly Goldstones are the norm. It's the fact of life. The Israeli leaders should take this into perspective at all times.
11. What went wrong?
Rabbi Yunan Amram ,   Israel   (10.15.09)
The whole world seems to be turning against us. One of our very own (Goldstone) submits a report that puts us at a level below scum, and the UN adopts his report and we are in trouble. Turkey and Iran are becoming a serious threats to our existence. Europe is turning against us. Prominent world figures are also condeming us including Carter, Galloway, Farrow among many many others. Israel has lost the purpose for its existence. Its time to consider living else where. Its a sad day for Jews!
12. Stop the lies
Jeff Fisher ,   NYC USA   (10.15.09)
Google Jeff Melchezidik Gabriel Fisher Hashem is pissed and he wants me to win and create world peace Are you all sexual deviants like Mark Adam Foley.
13. Simply put UN = inmates running
Allan ,   Ft. Lauderdale   (10.15.09)
the asylum.
14. #12-Rabbi, where do you suggest we go?
Allan ,   Ft. Lauderdale   (10.15.09)
Back to the shtetle, perhaps?
15. If this Isn't a Bad Joke, What Is
fed up ,   zion   (10.15.09)
the UN and Arabs demanding access to religous sites when there is not one jew left or one synagogue left in any of the counties voting for the resolution is a sickening joke .. yes Egpty has a few token Jews but with no freedom of religion. Israel however offers true access and freedom but they don't care. this is all a ploy, the arabs refuse to accept Israel's right to exist and that is what this is about. As for Mia Farrow, another hollywood/UN joke complaining about the poor children in Gaza. WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN IN SEDROT YOU ANTI SEMITIC MORON, EVER HEAR OF HAMAS AND ROCKETS ..she doesn't care as long as they a good picture and put in a newspaper ...
16. to #1
Lior ,   Israel   (10.15.09)
The UN is not a "total failure." Their mission to isolate Israel and to further throw us in to certifiable pariah status has worked. Mission Accomplished.
17. The reality
New Yorker ,   New York   (10.15.09)
The Holocaust did not happen because the Jews were guilty. What changed? The most enlightened among the nations used their advanced industrial and organizational know-how to perpetrate mass-murder on a horrendous scale. Among the European perpetrators on Germany paid the price. But the rest of Europe came out "clean". Given a chance they will do it again. It irks them that after so many intense efforts on their part to solve the "jewish problem" we are still around. They are frustrated and will support whatever hand might turn out useful for the cause, moslem or otherwise, even if in the end it will spell their own ruin. They know no God, no mercy, no scruples. Israel will get destroyed should it lower her guards. Her leaders must understand this. They should do away with niceties and ruinous politeness - when they hit back they should aim to kill and thereby teach a lesson.
18. # 11
Birdi ,   Israel   (10.15.09)
Rabbi Amram, Carter,Galloway,& Farrow are not "prominent world figures. No its not time to "consider living elsewhere" when the going gets tough,you dont run,you stay & face the music. If we Jews unite we will survive this bashing we are getting. Am Israel Chai.
19. adding to #8: SET -UP A LEAGUE OF DEMOCRACIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO DEMOCRACY= ,   NO MEMBERSHIP   (10.15.09)
20. Hatred of Jews
New Yorker ,   New York   (10.15.09)
The world hates the Jews precisely for their propensity to remain civilized in spite of millenia-long attempts to dehumanize and debase them, locking them up in ghettoes and concentration camps, burning, maiming and exterminating. The nations of the world are perplexed by this, and so frustrated by their failure that it long turned them into collective psycopaths, with a mental glitch that passes from generation to generation, which cripples the brainy faculties. This resurgent civility in the jews is what truly bothers the nations of the world. That's why they put forward scum like Goldstone in order to invent lousy anything that may come to tarnish this civility, even if only to feed their sick inflamed imagination, to convince themselves that they are the superior ones. And they will do anything to achieve their goal. The folks on the left in Isarel don't seem to fully grasp the reality of being a jew and trying to remain one. They entertain utopian hopes that proved false throughout the millenia.
21. #11, Rabbi ... shame on you
fed up ,   zion   (10.15.09)
since when do jews run away because the going got tough .. shame on you .. we are not the chosen people for nothing .. you should have confidence that hashem has a plan that will bring us victory and the defeat of our enemies, especially Iran .. hasn't 5000 years of history taught you that .. start reading the Torah and ask for forgivenenss
22. UN useless
bobo ,   mechburg USA   (10.15.09)
People, people, people. Please remember, the UN is an outdated, actually unimportant institution that is on its way out its own door. Anything that needs to get done needs to be done by partnerships between like minded countrys, regardless of what the UN believes.
23. THE UN IS HELPING HIZBOLLAH MOVE MISSLES FROM SYRIA TO
UN = TERRORISTS   (10.15.09)
LEBANON!
24. Goldstone
Art Schwartz ,   IRVINE, USA   (10.15.09)
WHY DIDN'T YOU PRINT MY COMMENT?
25. Hey New Yorker #20...NEWS FLASH, Goldstone is a Jew !
David ,   La Mesa   (10.16.09)
yu bin drinkin too much Manischewitz
Back to article