Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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 Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: The International Anti-Israeli Lobby |
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A few months ago, a pair of academics wrote a paper suggesting the Israeli lobby's fantastic success in Washington, and their inordinate influence there, was so effective it was hurting their cause.
I have an article that suggests the same thing of the UN's new Human Rights Council.
Reform Run Amok
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For all its faults, the previous U.N. commission occasionally discussed and condemned the regimes most responsible for human rights crimes, such as those in Belarus and Burma. China used to feel compelled to burnish its record before the annual meeting. The new council, in contrast, has so far taken action on only one country, which has dominated the debate at both of its regular meetings and been the sole subject of two extraordinary sessions: Israel.
Western human rights groups sought to focus the council's attention on Darfur, where genocide is occurring, and on Uzbekistan, where a dictator refuses to allow the investigation of a massacre by his security forces. Their efforts have been in vain. Instead, the council has treated itself to report after report on the alleged crimes of the Jewish state; in all, there were six official "rapporteurs" on that subject in the latest session alone. One, Jean Ziegler, is supposed to report on "the right to food." But he, too, delivered a diatribe on Israeli "crimes" in Lebanon. |
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