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    Default Re: Israel cuts all ties to United Nations Human Rights Council; attempts to block fact-finding mission into occupied territories

    Quote Originally Posted by shumit View Post
    How would arguments like this look? "Iran won't allow iaea in because it is run by bunch of western white Christians who would report against Iran no matter what they find."

    See the similarities?
    Except it's not. It's got a massive, worldwide membership and is currently led by a Japanese man.

    And it's not built around the condemnation of Iran like the UNHRC is with Israel.

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    so because there are some worse countries out there lets not do anything about it? yea that sounds really productive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    You must have missed my point. Compared to the countries I listed, America is a human rights utopia.
    That's my point. In addition, along with America there are some other countries there who are not all anti-Israel or human right disasters, Spain and italy come to mind, and it was only America who voted against this commission.

    Anyway, my original point was, in essense, that the presence of certain western states, in addition to America would lessen 'anti-Israeli' bias, especially if the commission hired to do the job is American. That's what irks me to be honest, Israel should have a bone to pick if the investigators are anti-Israeli, not if the body that is appointing them is anti-Israeli.

    Case in point. The goldstone report, that seriously harmed Israel, even after they refused to co-operate with it, then Goldstone, the head of the report, comes out years later and says if Israel had co-operated with the report it would of been alot less harsh to Israel. Israel is shooting itself in the foot. Again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eidius View Post
    so because there are some worse countries out there lets not do anything about it? yea that sounds really productive.
    No one knows what you're talking about.
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    America's presence in the UNHRC hasn't stopped the following from happening (from Le Wiki):
    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 resolutions passed by the Council.[42]By April 2007, the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[43]*Toward*Sudan, a country with human rights abuses as documented by the Council's working groups, it has expressed "deep concern.".[43]The council voted on 30 June 2006 to make a review of alleged human rights abuses byIsrael*a permanent feature of every council session. The Council's special rapporteur on the*Israeli-Palestinian conflict*is its only expert mandate with no year of expiry. The resolution, which was sponsored by*Organisation of the Islamic Conference, passed by a vote of 29 to 12 with five abstentions.*Human Rights Watch*urged it to look at international human rights and humanitarian law violations committed by*Palestinianarmed groups as well. Human Rights Watch called on the Council to avoid the selectivity that discredited its predecessor and urged it to hold special sessions on other urgent situations, such as that in*Darfur.[44]
    Israel has no reason whatsoever to believe anything good for them would come from an organization obsessed with condemning them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    No one knows what you're talking about.
    and you are their elected spokesperson? rofl.

    anyways I am saying that all this finger pointing is useless. Israel withdrew from this because they don't want anyone to say anything that is remotely negative about them. however if the same organization said anything about either Hamas or Iran then there would be a slightly different reaction by Israel...

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    Default Re: Israel cuts all ties to United Nations Human Rights Council; attempts to block fact-finding mission into occupied territories

    Yes. I am the elected spokesman of the mudpit and no one knows what you are talking about.

    Hamas or Iran have nothing to do with the UNHRC's Israel obsession.

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    America's presence in the UNHRC hasn't stopped the following from happening (from Le Wiki):


    Israel has no reason whatsoever to believe anything good for them would come from an organization obsessed with condemning them.

    So because there are worse people (and there are, but the get condemned or sanctioned) we should ignore Israel? That doesn't fly. They do it to is never and should never be a defence for anyone's actions.

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    Default Re: Israel cuts all ties to United Nations Human Rights Council; attempts to block fact-finding mission into occupied territories

    FFS, where did I say we should ignore Israel's human rights abuses? Where did I say we should do anything? I'm explaining why Israel did this.

    Also, they clearly don't get condemned or sanctioned...they get membership on human rights councils...

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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    FFS, where did I say we should ignore Israel's human rights abuses? Where did I say we should do anything? I'm explaining why Israel did this.

    Also, they clearly don't get condemned or sanctioned...they get membership on human rights councils...
    oh we ofc can't sanction people with alliances with the US.

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    Hey, you think this HR council is bad, the one before it used to say stuff like killing Israeli civilians is okay and not a human rights violation, but killing Palis is a no-no. They got dissolved, unsurprisingly.
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    oh we ofc can't sanction people with alliances with the US.
    Like China, Angola, and Russia? Those allies?

    You didn't answer my previous questions btw. Here they are again:

    "FFS, where did I say we should ignore Israel's human rights abuses? Where did I say we should do anything?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    Like China, Angola, and Russia? Those allies?

    You didn't answer my previous questions btw. Here they are again:

    "FFS, where did I say we should ignore Israel's human rights abuses? Where did I say we should do anything?"
    China and Russia are security council members and to big to do anything about (tho both do get heavily criticised by HRW, Amnesty etc) Angola was a cold war proxy war so both America and Russia are invested in not looking to deeply at that episode. (UNITA had US backing, MPLA got soviet backing)

    IS the council monomaniacal? Yes, does that mean it's wrong? I'd say no. It should look at other incidences (If it has a retroactive mandate the US Avtions in south america and Soviet actions in eastern europe would be a perfect start)
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    No, no, you're missing the point again. All three of those are human rights abusers and also members of the UNHRC. None of them are US allies. Which means that, as opposed to your implication, sanctions are in fact not based on one's alliance or lack therof to the US.

    (The answer to the questions were both "You didn't s.rwitt".)

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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    No, no, you're missing the point again. All three of those are human rights abusers and also members of the UNHRC. None of them are US allies. Which means that, as opposed to your implication, sanctions are in fact not based on one's alliance or lack therof to the US.

    (The answer to the questions were both "You didn't s.rwitt".)

    They are however based on your alliance or lack thereof to the security council, and most of the loons in the middle east (by no means all, Syria and Iran spring to mind) are US allies. And security council members will veto anything against them anyway.

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    They are however based on your alliance or lack thereof to the security council, and most of the loons in the middle east (by no means all, Syria and Iran spring to mind) are US allies. And security council members will veto anything against them anyway.
    Your alliance to the security council?

    US = security council? Because that's the only way for your claim to work.

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    Ok, lets cut to the chase.

    Anyone who considers the UN Human Right Council a non-biased body who only wishes to help human rights across the globe sound off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    America's presence in the UNHRC hasn't stopped the following from happening (from Le Wiki):
    Not enough to stop reports, but perhaps enough to make the commissioers unbiased. Anyway, if I was the UNHRC I would focus on Israel, it's like the only country in the middle east that would be willing to change itself if it was breaking human rights (though I doubt that's the reason they're doing it). Making the odd condemnation of Israel is bad yes, but this is a full on report, not your standard condemnation.

    Israel has no reason whatsoever to believe anything good for them would come from an organization obsessed with condemning them.
    Yet Israel has every reason to believe worse will come to them by refusing to co-operate with them. Case in point, the Goldstone report.
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    Not enough to stop reports, but perhaps enough to make the commissioers unbiased.
    And then in reality land the UNHR elected Sudan to be the Chairmen before the US rep walked out.

    Complete waste of time.
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    Yet Israel has every reason to believe worse will come to them by refusing to co-operate with them. Case in point, the Goldstone report.
    There's no doubt that this whole situation has put them in a lose-lose position, but I really don't think their cutting ties to the UNHRC is going to hurt worse than continued condemnations and reports that are going to cast Israel in a bad light regardless. Also, I don't think it's going to influence anyone's opinion of them. People that hate them will hate them either way and vice versa, but more years of reports that their opponents can point to as evidence certainly isn't going to help them out. It makes sense when you look at it from Israel's point of view.

    As for the Goldstone report, the fact that they were apparently more harsh on Israel because of Israel being uncooperative kind of degrades the legitimacy of the report in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by s.rwitt View Post
    As for the Goldstone report, the fact that they were apparently more harsh on Israel because of Israel being uncooperative kind of degrades the legitimacy of the report in the first place.
    Goldstone later came just short of retracting the allegations against Israel other than a few cases involving individual soldiers. Maybe you saw this...

    Our report found evidence of potential war crimes and “possibly crimes against humanity” by both Israel and Hamas. That the crimes allegedly committed by Hamas were intentional goes without saying — its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets.

    Although the Israeli evidence that has emerged since publication of our report doesn’t negate the tragic loss of civilian life, I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about intentionality and war crimes.
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    You don't seem to be familiar with how the burden of proof works in when discussing social justice. It's not like science where it lies on the one making the claim. If someone claims to be oppressed, they don't have to prove it.


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