Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements

[Hollie]

Children all over the world are taught that it is honorable to defend their country.

Can you show us any other group of people, except the Muslims, who don't seem to mind their children blowing themselves up if they can take out those who are considered their enemies? We realize you hate the Jews, but if you have children, would you suggest that they blow themselves up as long as they take a few Jews with them?


jt2

The Palestinians stopped suicide bombing years ago.

You need to update your propaganda.

The pal/arab suicide bombings (attempts), haven't stopped. The Israelis are more effective at preventing the attacks.

But it's worth pointing out that in the twisted and depraved worldview of pal/arab thieves and welfare cheats, the celebration of mass murderers and the honor bestowed on those who kill for their arab warlord "prophet" remains as resilient as ever.


PA TV: Suicide bombers
who killed 19 civilians on buses
are "more honored than all of us"

Suicide bombers are a "candle
that lights the tunnel of liberty"

PA TV: Suicide bombers who killed 19 civilians on buses are

During a Palestinian Authority TV News' broadcast from a burial ceremony for suicide terrorists whose bodies were handed over to the PA last month, the PA TV reporter described the funeral of Ali Ja'ara who murdered 11 and Muhammad Za'ul who murdered 8, as follows:

"This is Palestine, which embraces its Martyr sons, who are more honored than all of us, and which sends a message to the whole world that its Martyrs are not numbers, but rather a candle that lights the tunnel of liberty for the Palestinian people on the way to independence."

Ja'ara carried out a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem in January 2004, killing 11 people.
Za'ul carried out a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem in February 2004, killing 8 people.

 

[Jos]

What does that have to do with "Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements
" ?

 

[Gideonprime]

What does that have to do with "Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements
" ?

Why nothing of course.

However, people will grind an axe on any stone.

 

[PredFan]

Israeli officials today reiterated their “outrage” at the United Nations Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed, insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be “biased” and that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on “non-democratic countries.”

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus only on the occupation’s impact on Palestinians and not its legality, since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements -- News from Antiwar.com

I don't blame them. The UN is anti-Israel, and anti-American. You have about as much chance of getting a fair deal from them as you have of getting a great IRA from Bernie Madoff.

 

[Hollie]

What does that have to do with "Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements
" ?

I was responding to the comment: "The Palestinians stopped suicide bombing years ago".

Odd that you didn't identify that comment as being off topic.

 

[SAYIT]

Israeli officials say a UN fact-finding mission “will not be allowed to enter” the country and its occupied territories. On Friday, the Geneva-based Human Rights Council appointed three officers to probe Israel’s West Bank settlement activity. The UN's top human rights body has commissioned three jurists to find out how Israel's West Bank settlements affect “the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people.” The body called on Tel Aviv “not to obstruct the process of cooperation.” This resonated harshly with Israel, who took no time to dub the mission “biased and flawed,” vowing not to support the officials. "The fact-finding mission will find no cooperation in Israel, and its members will not be allowed to enter Israel and the territories,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. “Its existence embodies the inherent distortion that typifies the UN Human Rights Council's treatment of Israel and the hijacking of the important human rights agenda by non-democratic countries.”

Israel slams door on UN Human Rights Council over settlement row — RT

Given the UNHRC's record on human rights, why would Israel, or for that matter any rational state, cooperate with anything the Council might demand, require or desire?

 

[SAYIT]

What does that have to do with "Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements
" ?

You're still jut a slimey punk, Jackazz. Hollie was clearly responding to what was already off-topic but I see you made no complaint about that. Typical.

 

[Defiant1]

Israeli officials today reiterated their “outrage” at the United Nations Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed, insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be “biased” and that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on “non-democratic countries.”

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus only on the occupation’s impact on Palestinians and not its legality, since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements -- News from Antiwar.com

Good for Israel. It's not like the U.N. has Israel's best interest in mind.

 

[SAYIT]

Israeli officials today reiterated their “outrage” at the United Nations Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed, insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be “biased” and that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on “non-democratic countries.”

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus only on the occupation’s impact on Palestinians and not its legality, since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements -- News from Antiwar.com

Good for Israel. It's not like the U.N. has Israel's best interest in mind.

Nor does antiwar.com or Jos for that matter.

 

[Jos]

Israeli officials today reiterated their “outrage” at the United Nations Human Rights Council for deciding to probe illegal settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, adding that they would never cooperate with any probes and would bar any members of the mission from entering the territory.

The UN appointed a panel of three experts to conduct a fact-finding mission on how settlements, illegal under international law, impact the Palestinian civilians living under Israeli occupation.

Israeli official statements blasted the panel as inherently flawed, insisting that any investigation of Israel would have to be “biased” and that the UN should focus its investigations exclusively on “non-democratic countries.”

Israel had severed all ties with the human rights council months ago when the notion was initially raised. The probe is expected to focus only on the occupation’s impact on Palestinians and not its legality, since there seems to be no real question that the occupation is illegal and that the construction of settlement in occupied territory is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements -- News from Antiwar.com

Good for Israel. It's not like the U.N. has Israel's best interest in mind.

The United Nations has the Worlds best interests in Mind, Israels settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law, and Israel knows it

The Geneva-based 47-nation council passed a resolution in March to establish such a probe following a motion by the Palestinian Authority. Israel's ally the United States was the only member to vote against it. The UN considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law.


'UNHRC targeting Israel'

The council said that Israel's planned construction of new housing units in the West Bank and east Jerusalem "undermines the peace process and poses a threat to the two-state solution and the creation of an independent Palestinian state."



Jerusalem condemned Friday's decision: "The establishment of this mission is another blatant expression of the singling out of Israel in the UNHRC. This fact-finding mission will find no cooperation in Israel and its members will not be allowed to enter Israel and the territories," a Foreign Ministry statement said.



As the team will not be allowed access to Israeli settlements, they are likely to have to gather information from second-hand sources, including the media.



Even if the investigators conclude settlements violate human rights law, US opposition is likely to stymie any attempt to impose any punishment on Israel.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4252175,00.html

 

[SAYIT]

Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN Probe of West Bank Settlements -- News from Antiwar.com

Good for Israel. It's not like the U.N. has Israel's best interest in mind.

The United Nations has the Worlds best interests in Mind

You gotta lay off the crack, Princess.

 

[Jos]

Good for Israel. It's not like the U.N. has Israel's best interest in mind.

The United Nations has the Worlds best interests in Mind

You gotta lay off the crack, Princess.

I could always scrape your opinion off my shoe

 

[SAYIT]

The United Nations has the Worlds best interests in Mind

You gotta lay off the crack, Princess.

I could always scrape your opinion off my shoe

If you had shoes.

 

[Billo_Really]

Israel slams door on UN Human Rights Council over settlement row — RT

Given the UNHRC's record on human rights, why would Israel, or for that matter any rational state, cooperate with anything the Council might demand, require or desire?[/QUOTE]The UNHRC's record is pretty good on human rights.

The reason Israel doesn't want to cooperate, is because they've committed many human rights violations they don't want people to see.

 

[Jos]

Israel slams door on UN Human Rights Council over settlement row — RT

Given the UNHRC's record on human rights, why would Israel, or for that matter any rational state, cooperate with anything the Council might demand, require or desire?

The UNHRC's record is pretty good on human rights.

The reason Israel doesn't want to cooperate, is because they've committed many human rights violations they don't want people to see.[/QUOTE]

Oh People see it, Israel doesn't want to acknowledge/ confirm those crimes by letting an independent body examine them

 

[SAYIT]

Israel slams door on UN Human Rights Council over settlement row — RT

Given the UNHRC's record on human rights, why would Israel, or for that matter any rational state, cooperate with anything the Council might demand, require or desire?

The UNHRC's record is pretty good on human rights.

Really?
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and former High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson criticized the council for acting according to political considerations as opposed to human rights. Specifically, Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, the council's president Doru Costea, the European Union, Canada and the United States have accused the council of focusing disproportionately on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." Source - Wikipedia
"As of 2010, Israel had been condemned in 32 resolutions by the Council since its creation in 2006. The 32 resolutions comprised 48.1% of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council.[55] By April 2007, the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[56] Toward Sudan, for instance, a country with human rights abuses as documented by the Council's working groups, it has expressed only "deep concern." Source - Wikipedia
"In 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that the Commission should not have a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel. Not that Israel should be given a free pass. Absolutely not. But the Council should give the same attention to grave violations committed by other states as well." Source - Wikipedia
On 20 June 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement that read: "The Secretary-General is disappointed at the council's decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world." Source - Wikipedia

In case you missed the point, even successive UN Secretaries General have noticed the blatantly anti-Israel nature of the UN's "human rights" agency.

United Nations Human Rights Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Billo_Really]

Really?
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and former High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson criticized the council for acting according to political considerations as opposed to human rights. Specifically, Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, the council's president Doru Costea, the European Union, Canada and the United States have accused the council of focusing disproportionately on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." Source - Wikipedia
"As of 2010, Israel had been condemned in 32 resolutions by the Council since its creation in 2006. The 32 resolutions comprised 48.1% of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council.[55] By April 2007, the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[56] Toward Sudan, for instance, a country with human rights abuses as documented by the Council's working groups, it has expressed only "deep concern." Source - Wikipedia
"In 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that the Commission should not have a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel. Not that Israel should be given a free pass. Absolutely not. But the Council should give the same attention to grave violations committed by other states as well." Source - Wikipedia
On 20 June 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement that read: "The Secretary-General is disappointed at the council's decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world." Source - Wikipedia

In case you missed the point, even successive UN Secretaries General have noticed the blatantly anti-Israel nature of the UN's "human rights" agency.

United Nations Human Rights Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That doesn't prove they're bad on HR, it just proves Israel commits a majority of the violations.

 

[Jos]

Israel does not abide by any international laws. She goes where she wants, she kills who she wants and she expects the world to sit by and do nothing in the face of it.

With a player like this in possession of several hundred nuclear weapons and that of course has control over the political and economic infrastructure of the most powerful country in the world meaning the US, truly the world is at a very dangerous place in history right now.


PressTV - World mum on Israel threatening peace

 

[SAYIT]

Really?
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and former High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson criticized the council for acting according to political considerations as opposed to human rights. Specifically, Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, the council's president Doru Costea, the European Union, Canada and the United States have accused the council of focusing disproportionately on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." Source - Wikipedia
"As of 2010, Israel had been condemned in 32 resolutions by the Council since its creation in 2006. The 32 resolutions comprised 48.1% of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council.[55] By April 2007, the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[56] Toward Sudan, for instance, a country with human rights abuses as documented by the Council's working groups, it has expressed only "deep concern." Source - Wikipedia
"In 2006, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that the Commission should not have a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel. Not that Israel should be given a free pass. Absolutely not. But the Council should give the same attention to grave violations committed by other states as well." Source - Wikipedia
On 20 June 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement that read: "The Secretary-General is disappointed at the council's decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world." Source - Wikipedia

In case you missed the point, even successive UN Secretaries General have noticed the blatantly anti-Israel nature of the UN's "human rights" agency.

United Nations Human Rights Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That doesn't prove they're bad on HR, it just proves Israel commits a majority of the violations.

I can assure you every Nazi scumbag on the planet agrees with you but that doesn't make your opinion worth diddly. In fact...

 

[SAYIT]

Israel does not abide by any international laws. She goes where she wants, she kills who she wants and she expects the world to sit by and do nothing in the face of it.

With a player like this in possession of several hundred nuclear weapons and that of course has control over the political and economic infrastructure of the most powerful country in the world meaning the US, truly the world is at a very dangerous place in history right now.


PressTV - World mum on Israel threatening peace

Iran's state-run PressTV? Really?
And you expect anyone but TinHorn, Sherri, LoinCloth and SunniMan to take you seriously?