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Bitter disappointment and diplomatic achievements at UNHRC
Itamar Eichner
Published: 19.05.18, 12:25
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1. Germany is planning "March of Return" to Polish border,to re
ab   (05.19.18)
-gain territories lost after the German Naqba of May 9th 1945.
And Poles will welcome them with flowers no doubt
2. Ab. Brilliant idea. The poles will serve them tea and cake.
Eden   (05.19.18)
3. IS RAEL NEEDS TO GET REAL
GENERAL NUISANCE ,   SAFED MILITARY   (05.19.18)
Israel has, sadly ,been losing the propaganda PR war for decades . Israel is ,rightly ,so concerned with large threats ,such as Iran but ignores other real threats which harm israeli interests. Palestinians know how to play to the media ,how to portray themselves as " the poor palestinian people who are occupied " and Israeli efforts to combat this have always been clumsy and ill-considered, not thought out well.
These propaganda assaults cause Israel real harm ,diplomatically and economically.Israel loses support internationally every time it falls into the plaestinian trap and must invest more time and energy and be creative, finding non-lethal but effective ways to deter palestinians charging towards the borders. Not an easy thing to do.
4. self=assuring rhetoric won't help Jews, too late
Khalid Amayreh ,   Occupied Jerusalem   (05.19.18)
5. Family demonstrators need a smoke because?
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (05.19.18)
This is the fabric of the 10 000 year old Palestinian culture- to sacrifice your children to political fantasy
Palestinian Civil society puts their children in harms way to slander Jews
6. NO DISAPPOINTMENT FROM TREACHERY
EZEKIAL HAIM ,   LONDON   (05.19.18)
Israel knows its real friends.Israel equally knows its worst enemies.The ones in between ,the hypocrites ,the pretentious ,expose themselves knowingly and unknowingly and they have a history of hatred to the Jews.Israel also knows how to deal with those.They follow their interests and change like chameleons and should be treated as such.Israel has to defend its people no matter what as Israel cannot rely on anyone else to defend its people .Disappointment only results from unrealistic expectations.If the writer has any of these then he should get rid of those.
7. Yah. Right, just some over heated......
The Archives ,   Kuala Lumpur   (05.19.18)
Hot air in a balloon that is about to burst into nothingness like an empty fart which Israel and U.S. has no inkling about what UNHRC is mumbling about like a toothless old woman.
8. The UNHCR must also condemn.......
The Archives ,   Kuala Lumpur   (05.19.18)
arsonist for taking advantage of the riots to set agriculture fields and Kerem Crossing ablaze causing monetary and property losses
9. European “friendliest” will go to Hell eventually, so why
(05.19.18)
the fuss?
10. Phd
EF Barasch ,   Sacramento   (05.19.18)
Israel uses snipers and sniper guns on Gazans charging the border fence
as a FIRST option and then doesn't expect to be hauled in front of a human rights tribunal? Give me a break. The whole world is watching and always has.

11. Ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg
Serge ,   Antwerp, Belgium   (05.19.18)
Simona Frenkel, the Israeli ambassador to Belgium and Luxemburg is maybe not the brightest and the most fluent in French. She was summoned after a bad comment during an interview on the radio.
12. The World is so much bigger and so much friendlier ...
leo ,   usa   (05.19.18)
... to Israel than falling apart EU.

Please, stop worrying about opinions of this soon to be hasbeen organization and especially about opinion of such corrupt entity as UNHRC.
13. CONFUCIUS SAYS:
CONFUCIUS ,   SAFED CHINA   (05.19.18)
" It is better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by six "
14. EU ARE A BUNCH OF WANKERS GEEZER...
COCKNEY GEEZER ,   LONDON INNIT   (05.19.18)
15. ISRAELI HASBARA
YOSSI SPOKESMAN ,   SAFED CYNIC HOUSE   (05.19.18)
Eeehhh ,wee nid to tell da EU end the nations that wee eff every right to defend arselves eeehhhhh eerael vil do wot eet ess to do eeehhhh ,wee wont to tok piss wiz da palestinians eeehhhhh.
16. CONFUCIUS SAYS :
CONFUCIUS ,   SAFED CHINA   (05.19.18)
If you are going to be imprisoned or executed for stealing ,then do not just steal $10 ,you might as well steal $10 billion.
17. I OFFER TO BE AN ISRAELI SPOKESMAN
COCKNEY GEEZER ,   SAFED GEEZER   (05.19.18)
Enough of clumsy israeli media geezers who are not fluent in english speaking to CNN, BBC and other media. Please employ people who can speak proper english . It might just help to better put Israel's case across.
18. THE RIGHT OF RETURN
EDWARD CONOMIST ,   SAFED ECONOMY   (05.19.18)
Does my spent money have the right of return ?
19. 1Jewish Country 52 Moslem & $$$ to Media
CruelHypocritklWorld ,   Jerusalem   (05.19.18)
There is only 1Jewish nation and 52 Moslem nations
The world wants to do business with no matter how
Corrupt tyrannical major abuses of human rights
Sick and hypocritical world not to mention
CNN BBC Sky France24 etc all heavily depend on massive
Arab and Moslem advertisers and stockholders
See how many advertise Turkish Qatari Emirates
Malaysian etc Airlines even Fox News now
Reportablly has heavy $audi influences On these stations Ramadan
Holiday given in-depth sympathetic coverage
As opposed to Christianity and Judaism and
It’s contribution to humanity zero BBC France24
Mouthpieces for their countries Foreign Office
It’s a corrupt world we just have to weather
It out the truth always wins out in the end
Keep the faith !!
20. Once again Europe sells out the Jews for $$
TheWhoresOfEurope ,   Jerusalem   (05.19.18)
21. European "friends" are no friends
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv   (05.19.18)
After 2000 years of Christian and secular anti-Semitism in Europe, Israel and the Jewish people should know by know that Europeans are rarely if ever, friendly disposed to us.

I also want to incidentally mention that the UN doesn't speak for the human race since most UN countries are dictatorships, and neither dictatorships nor democracies democratically appoint their UN ambassadors, and the decisions made at the UN General Assembly are usually politically motivated, and not based on international law.

The voting in the UN is politically motivated and politically biased. Real politik, trade relations, Arab oil, Arab sanctions against those who vote for Israel etc are the real reason why the UN almost always votes against Israel. Israel hatred and anti-Semitism hardly exist in countries such as China, India, Japan and South East Asia - meaning well over 3 billion people.
22. Countries friendly to Israel from the EU voting against her.
tiki ,   belgium   (05.19.18)
With 50 Muslim majority & 22 Arab countries in the world and only ONE Jewish state, there are no friendly to Israel countries in the EU!

The Holocaust firmly buried in the past and Europe soon becoming a Western Caliphate, Europe is not a friendly continent to Jews.....again and certainly not to a country full of Jews.

The millions of dead, wounded, maimed & fugitives from Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, Sudan, Sahel, Myamar, Congo, Kurdistan etc.etc.etc.etc. must ask themselves.....

"What do 50 dead Palestinian terrorists have what we don't"?

Answer: an Israeli """enemy'''"
23. Of course the German Neo Nazis failed to support Israel...
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (05.19.18)
24. Let's see if Israel's govt can learn ...
Ed ,   USA   (05.19.18)
from it's past mistakes. After the Gaza war that caused the Goldstone process, and what has Israel learned?

The entire Goldstone mess came about because guess who in the Israeli govt stonewalled and said that Israel would not cooperate. How many of you reading this actually read the first IDF report on the individual actions that were questioned? It could have been written by a computer, everything was operational necessity and loss of life was unfortunate but no one's fault but Hamas. It took until the international pressure was serious for the IDF to do some more investigation, find mistakes, and acknowledge them as well as hold some commanders responsible. The final report from the IDF is nothing like the original one.

Had Israel not stonewalled, and the IDF right away done serious public disclosure of the mistakes made, there would not have been any Goldstone Report and the PR disaster. The international community only has jurisdiction if it can be shown that the country involved doesn't have it's own credible process to investigate and hold people responsible.

After the IDF finally released a serious report, Judge Goldstone retracted his earlier comments and basically said "why didn't you do this in the first place?" Of course no one who hates Israel remembers this.

How about less bluster, and more openness?
25. Israeli Media fear tactics sow panic agenda
EuropeIsNotTheWorld ,   Jerusalem   (05.19.18)
26. If these rioters killed a Jew-Eu pays them a wage-EVIL
(05.24.18)
The same EU nations that condemn Israel and call for an investigation are the ones openly funding the terrorism against Jews.

Any one of these rioters who breached the border and killed Jews would be paid a wage dependent on how many they murdered. ALL FUNDED BY THE EU.
27. Investigate EU funding for this invasion of terrorists
(05.24.18)
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