UNISPAL - UN in the service of Arab propaganda
".......The Department of Political Affairs [DPA] is one of a dozen Departments associated with the UN Secretariate. Its mission statement is so broad, as to cover any conceivable topic.
Little wonder, then, that the Palestinian propaganda machine monopolized an entire Division within the DPA, namely, the “
Division for Palestinian Rights [DPR]” .
Each of the 7 Other Divisions within the DPA is GENERAL, e.g., “Americas and Europe Division”, “Asia and the Pacific Division”, etc.
But the Palestinians were going to settle for nothing less than an entire Division - and they got it,
confirming the assessment that the UN is a “wholly-owned subsidiary of the Arab League”.
The mandate of the DPR is as follows:
Providing substantive support and secretariat services for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and its Bureau;
Assisting the Committee in the exercise of its mandate and the promotion and implementation of its recommendations;
Planning, organizing and servicing the Committee’s programme of international meetings;
Consulting and maintaining liaison with NGOs which are active on the issue;
*Organizing the annual commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People;
*Preparing studies and publications relating to the question of Palestine and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people;
Promoting the widest possible dissemination of these studies and publications, including in cooperation with the Department of Public Information;
Maintaining and developing the computer-based United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine (UNISPAL).
Paraphrased, the mandate of the DPR is to generate and disseminate Palestinian propaganda, using UNISPAL as a vector.
In its campaign, the DPR uses as conduits a list of NGOs that runs for 11 screen pages, with approximately 250 NGO’s listed.
Of special interest is the
“Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”, established in 1975, the year of the infamous “Zionism = Racism” resolution......"
The DPR Octopus has many other tentacles as well, one being the organization of international conferences for the dissemination of Palestinian propaganda. As the DPR calendar of events indicates, in the quarter April - June, 2002 alone, the DPR held three international conferences. In this context one should also note the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”, held annually by DPR on November 29 - the very date in 1947 on which the UN voted for the establishment of Israel......"
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