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UN orders first probe of Israeli settlements
Moran Azulay
Published: 22.03.12, 23:47
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1. The Fogel family were slaughtered by arabs living in the
david ,   UK/RSA   (03.22.12)
territories. THAT DEMANDED A UN HUMAN RIGHT RESOLUTION!!!!!
2. Another year of anti-Israel propaganda
Doron ,   USA   (03.22.12)
Another year of misinformation which tends to increase ignorant fools' opposition and animosity/hatred of the Jewish State. When will they face facts: Jordan abandoned the territory and the remaining population is responsible for getting along with Israel. They are humans who are responsible for their actions. They can choose falsely or they can choose correctly. This world loves to hate the Jews. It is the drug that fools love most. The road to sobriety seems like too much for them. Why start down that road when the pushers are all around, paying them to take the drug? Teach the world a lesson! Fools will fail, the righteous will win! Hashem is King!
3. The UN has NO right to probe Israelis in Israel
Israeli 2   (03.22.12)
The Sonei Yisrael are infringing on Jewish settlers. Kahane z"l is right. God! Do I miss him.
4. Not Illegal
Ehai ,   London. UK   (03.22.12)
According to San Remo declaration Israel is acting within its rights. According to Resolution 242 also Israelis not acting illegally. The UN's Human Rights Council is provoking a fight with this approach to us. The UN is biased against Israel and biased in favour of Hamas. The UN has a highly spurious credibility where its own actions in the context of international law and human rights is concerned. You can't make peace like this. First you have to take down HAMAS.
5. Until Bibi stands up and says the "settlements" are LEGAL...
Our Country ,   Israel   (03.22.12)
Israel will continue down the slipperyy slope of Arab/UN lies and propoganda. Stand up and face the problem head on Bibi. HaShem is on YOUR side.
6. It's JUDAEA, stupid! Land of the Jews.
Ariel ,   Europe   (03.22.12)
7. Line Drawn In Sand by UN
Dan ,   Florida - Tel Aviv   (03.22.12)
This is it. #1. Deny the UN any entrance to this area. 2. Annex this area as sovereign Israeli land the microsecond any UN personnel tries to or does set foot in Israel or crosses into from another country. Make it absolutely plain that any Illegal people entering into Israel are to be dealt with as invaders and terrorists no matter whet flag they fly. 3. Tell the Palestinians they are now under Israeli law and any violation will see them deported to Gaza.....hell why wait?
8. So WHY Cannot Jews Live in "West Bank"
Dallas ,   Canada   (03.22.12)
That is a question that no one can answer without exposing the complete moral bankruptcy of the "Palestinian" and the UN's biased cause.
9. to hell with them
Hans-Peter Dollhopf ,   Ludwigshafen/Germany   (03.22.12)
"Libya’s Gaddafi regime was actually a member of the council until recently, and other serial human rights abusers still sit on the body."
10. UN Biased? Yes, but right on this issue.
Gunnar ,   Gothenburg, Swedn   (03.22.12)
Two wrongs don't make one right. Even if the UN Human Rights Council should focus more on Syria, Sudi Arabia, Iran, China, North Korea, Cuba etc, the criticism towards Israel's settlement policy is well-founded and just. The settlements are just wrong, wrong, WRONG. For all reasons, legally as well as morally.
11. pillay will know misery and the lord's wrath
mohson   (03.22.12)
navi pillay like goldstone before has hectored and pilloried israel for violations when in reality she ignores context and hamas and plo provocation plus the fact that west bank is disputed territory and does not belong to a nation at this point. While 9000 civilians are butchered by marwan assad which is what would have happened to israel towns and villages below the golan if israel's cowards of olmert and livni had been successful in negotiations. Yet pillay,t he coward that she is ignores syria and focuses on israel where no army in the world protects civilians as much as israel does. God knows palestinains along with gazans need a tremendous thrashing. Pillay willl know a terrible future for her diatribes against israel since she knows her council is full of s**t from top to bottom. God knows what she has done and he will punish her.
12. Bunch of hypocrites
Carl ,   USA   (03.22.12)
Of all the actual human rights abuses being perpetrated around the world, Israel is all this pathetic organization can agree to condemn. Wait for Mauritania to become the next member as a reward for not investigating why 20% of their population are SLAVES.
13. UN
Somewhere USA   (03.22.12)
And why not, and about time
14. UN vs Bible
Brod ,   USA   (03.22.12)
The Islamist-Jihadist dominated UN is defying the GOD of the Bible and the BIBLE. They think Jews come from Mars. Deliberate denial of Israel's ancient history, the Bible and Biblical Archaeology makes the UN irrelevant to be intruding on Israel's internal affairs. They are no different to the NAZIS. Israel can tell such UN to go to Hell.
15. What the hell is a "palestinian"? the antisemitic UN needs
Mike ,   Ohio   (03.22.12)
to learn history!
16. hrc should b renamed
gershon ,   london uk   (03.22.12)
WIITIC worthless,immoral,illegal, total idiots council
17. Hypocritical
tiki ,   belgium   (03.22.12)
Natanyahu was way to polite to this UN collection of enemies of the State of Israel. The Governement should make it officially clear to these ***Human Rights representatives that from this day on, they can decide that 'the sun is blue & the moon is purple or whatever they want and mail their conclusion to someone who cares. Jerusalem is not one of them.
18. As we say in Britain,...
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (03.22.12)
....you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. If the UNHRC is going to make a fuss even about a few legal settlements,Israel might just as well expand them and expand them again. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
19. #8Dallas---I can hazard an answer.
Ian ,   Newcastle upon Tyne   (03.22.12)
It's BECAUSE they are Jews. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!
20. Probe?
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.22.12)
Many of the nations serving on the United Nations Human Rights Council are among the worst abusers of human rights in the world. Its current membership includes Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, China, Congo, Cuba, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Uganda. What interesting is that a Pakistani "envoy" presented the resolution. Pakistan is not a member of the HRC. What is more interesting is that the HRC is not busying itself with the deplorable situation in Syria. Israel is right to tell the HRC to shove it. Deny each and every HRC "envoy" entry into Israel, and treat this whole absurdity like the joke that it is. Flick 'em away. Nothing they can do about it, and it is more than hight time to put that ridiculous and completely useless agency in its place.
21. re: 10. UN Biased? Yes, but right on this issue.
Dmitriy ,   Chicago, USA   (03.22.12)
To Gunnar, #10, can you please provide SOME basis for your argument as to why Jews are forbidden to settle their land?? Eagerly awaiting your thoughtful reply!
22. Welcome to democracy!!
Raymond Paz ,   China Macau   (03.22.12)
where everything depends on the vote of the masses. where the one that has high number / birthrates automatically wins. democracy. . . . who invented this politic system, the greeks, they are doing fine now eh ? . Sarcastic.
23. What about Islamic Human RightsAbuses
Dan ,   Florida - Tel Aviv   (03.22.12)
1000 women were slaughtered in honor killings in Pakistan last year. Tens of thousands were slaughtered in Syria, Saudi women beaten for driving, Iranian women imprisoned for showing too much hair, Afghan children beheaded for flying kites. These are the true human rights abuses.
24. To No. 8, from the settlement of Gothenburg
New Yorker ,   U.S.A.   (03.22.12)
Hi there Gunnar, Is your living in the settlement of Gothenburg also just wrong for all reasons, legally as well as morally?
25. Probe Palestinians in Refugee Camps
Raphy ,   Quebec   (03.22.12)
Palestinians in Refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt have no rights to work or to buy land. Israel gives them more rights than any other ME country. Netanyahu should chalenge them on this point.
26. Who Cares!!!
Jake Stone ,   USA   (03.22.12)
Who really cares what the UN thinks? They're a bunch of pathetic hypocrites who wouldn't know a human right if it bit them on their collective arses'. They have no legitimacy, whatsoever! Like Netanyahu said: the theater of the absurd. Just don't pay the, anti-Semetic, idiots' any mind; their importance is of no value, so screw them! God bless, Israel; praying for the peace of Jerusalem!
27. international law: all of Israel and Jordan belongs to Jews
Golan ,   modiin   (03.22.12)
Please see San Remo Conference (1920) which gave the Arabs Iraq, and "Palestine" to the Jews. The British were given a mandate to hand over this land to the Jews. This piece of international law was part of the League of Nations charter and when that worthless body changed its name to the United Nations the San Remo Conference resolutions became part of the UN charter. Jordan is an illegal state.
28. Some Facts
Yitzhak ,   TA   (03.22.12)
Let's be clear on this. In law, there is no such entity as 'the West Bank'. It is a fabrication. In law, there is no such thing as 'Israeli occupation'. It, too, is a fabrication. The only 'occupation' is that which land-grabbing Arabs are currently perpetuating in Gaza and in Zones A & B of Judea & Samaria, in direct violation of the provisions laid down by the League of Nations following the 1920 San Remo Conference. San Remo is *law*. Public international law. The UN does *not* have the power to rescind it. For the love of *G-d*, what does the UN have to do, before the Israeli government grows somes stones and tells it to f**k off?
29. #21 Because...
Gunnar ,   Gothenburg, Sweden   (03.22.12)
... Israel itself (including the rest of the world, but that's irrelevant) has recognized that there IS a Palestinian people and that they are entitled to a state of their own, then there's really no other option. IF, on the other hand, representatives of Israel had said that all this land belongs to us, there is no Palestinian people etc, then it would've be a different issue. China does it with Tibet. Turkey does it with the Kurds, Morocco does it with West Sahara, Russia with the Chechens etc etc. If you open Pandora's box, you have to accept what is in it...
30. Thank you Yitzhak!
Marlon ,   Brazil   (03.22.12)
It's great to have more informed people around...
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