T, Belman. Israel’s complaint is that Hamas was not hammered enough. No. Had Hamas been put on the carpet equally to Israel, it would in no way have exonerated Israel. Israel shouldn’t be there at all. In light of all the evidence and reports submitted in defense of Israel’s action, Israel should have been lauded, not condemned. The fact that Britain, France, German merely abstained was to be expected because they have declared “war” on us. But the fact that India abstained was deeply disappointing..
Israeli envoy slams decision, calls adopted resolution ‘an anti-Israeli manifesto’ which ignores international law violations by Hamas.
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to adopt a report made by a UN inquiry commission on Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer, calling on Israel and the Palestinians to prosecute alleged war crimes and to cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s preliminary investigation.
Forty-one countries voted in favor of adopting the report, five abstained – India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Macedonia – and only one, the United States, voted against, saying it was biased against Israel.
European countries said they were disappointed it didn’t explicitly mention rockets fired by Hamas toward civilian areas in Israel, but after hours of behind-the-scenes negotiations on the text, all European Union member states of the Council, including Britain, France and Germany, voted in favor.
The resolution underlined “the need to ensure that all those responsible for violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law are held to account, through appropriate fair and independent domestic or international criminal justice mechanisms”.
Israel’s Ambassador to Geneva, Eviatar Manor, slammed the decision to adopt the report, saying, “Hans Christian Andersen wrote famously that the King is naked. So let me assume the role of the little boy in the story and tell you – this Council has lost its bearing.”
Calling the adopted resolution “an anti-Israeli manifesto,” Manor asserted that it “distorts the intention of the authors of the report by completely ignoring alleged violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.”
“Hamas continues to fire rockets and terror acts against Israelis go on as I speak,” he added.
“So allow me to tell the truth about what Israel did in Gaza,” Manor continued. “One – Israel defended its population against aggression by a terrorist organization. A terrorist organization which serially rejected every cease-fire proposed.
“Two – Israel went to extraordinary length to minimize the impact of the violence on Gaza’s civilian population. It went to great length to warn the civilian population on impending strikes.
“Three – Israel is fully committed to investigating all alleged violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict. Israel’s investigative mechanism has already filtered close to 200 cases. Over 100 of these cases have been handed over to the Military Advocate General.
“Four – however, Justice must be done, first and foremost. The Chair of the Commission of Inquiry has stated in her press conference that Israel has a robust system for investigating alleged violations. It must be allowed to complete its course.
“Five – Israel is carefully studying all reports on Operation Protective Edge, whatever their source, flaws or bias.”
The commission determined that one third of Gaza dead during Protective Edge were children and urged both sides to cooperate with International Criminal Court investigations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report biased.
Manor, in his address to the UNHRC on Friday, said that “we are not dealing here with fairness or moral integrity. We are dealing with a UN organ that is highly politicized, obsessive with Israel, ignoring serious situations of human rights violations across the globe and spending its scarce resources of money and manpower on reports on my country.”
He accused the council of being “agent provocateur feeding the flames,” saying it “failed to be a constructive player and promote rapprochement between Israelis and Palestinians.”
‘Human Rights Council doesn’t care about the facts’
Israel’s Foreign Ministry also criticized the decision to adopt the resolution, saying that “The Human Rights Council once again proved it is irrelevant and disconnected from reality. While the world around us burns in flames – a serious terrorist attack in Egypt, the continuation of anarchy in Syria, millions of refugees fleeing their homes – the council continues focusing on Israel.”
“The resolution that was adopted today is a result of a Palestinian move meant to isolate Israel and tie its hands in the just fight against the terrorism of militant Islam. This council has so far adopted more unilateral resolutions against Israel than the sum total of resolutions adopted there against the rest of the world,” the ministry went on to say.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that Israel, as “a law-abiding state with a legal system much respected in the world, is the only one that can investigate itself, as it does after every military campaign.”
The ministry decried the fact the Palestinian Authority has not condemned nor has it convened a special meeting of the UNHRC in light of the recent terror attacks against Israelis.
Prime Minister Netanyahu slammed the decision, saying the Human Rights Council “does not care about the fact and does not really care about human rights.”
“The today in which there is fire from Sinai at Israel, and while in Egypt the Islamic State is committing brutal terror attacks, in Syria Assad is slaughtering his people and in Iran the number of arbitrary executions rises every year – the UN’s Human Rights Council decides to condemn the State of Israel, while it is innocent of any crime, the State of Israel that acted to defend itself from a murderous terror organization.”
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon called the decision “absurd and far-fetched.”
Opposition MK Tzipi Livni (Zionist Union) also slammed the resolution, saying “at its foundation is a comparison between the IDF and Hamas, one-sidedness, and disregard to Hamas’ crimes. Even in its ‘softened’ version it is unacceptable, as it gives the Palestinians more tools to prevent Israel from defending itself and is another step towards the International Criminal Court at The Hague.”
Opposition MK Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu) said that while a rocket was fired at southern Israel, the UNHRC decided to adopt the UN report. “It’s only another proof that this council is a mask behind which hide terror organizations and anti-Israeli organizations whose goal is to harm Israel,” he said, calling on Netanyahu to cut ties with the Human Rights Council.
The Prime Minister’s Office said Netanyahu had spoken to his counterparts in India, Kenya and Ethiopia over the past few days about the resolution, calls which eventually led these decisions to abstain from the vote.
India’s decision to abstain from the vote is an unprecedented achievement for Israel. In the past, New Delhi has always voted against Israel. But since the election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the warming of ties between the two countries, India has changed its voting pattern for the first time.
The PMO also expressed its appreciation to the US, the only country to oppose “the hypocritical condemnation” from the UN Human Rights Council.
However, Israel was disappointed with the fact many important Western states voted to adopt the decision, including France, Germany and Britain.
In order to ensure the passing of the resolution, the Palestinians had to soften the resolution, removing any call to action from the UNHRC, leaving it a merely symbolic decision.
Karim Lahidji, President of the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, said in a statement: “By supporting this milestone resolution, the EU sends a message that … impunity will not prevail.”
Historically, Gentiles do not believe that Jews possess the right to live, so this farcical UN resolution is merely a reiteration of the longstanding status quo. Hamas has pledged to kill all Jews. The world is bitterly disappointed at the lack of progress thus far. Tough shit.
Yet this latest anti-Semitic UN tantrum is positive if it convinces more Israelis that world public opinion is not worth courting, and that Israel must be a ninja nation which tolerates no aggression. It is long past time to end the counterproductive and deeply immoral policy of pulling punches in a futile attempt to mollify the world’s Jew haters. Remove the shackles from the IDF and fight to win.
babushka Said:
I believe that they have deemed it advantageous to maintain hamas in a weakened state.
Why doesn’t Israel tunnel into Gaza and covertly assassinate Hamas leadership? Instead of whining and complaining, how about killing and vanquishing?
babushka Said:
In my view the seed of the poison lies with the leftists of Israel because what they say is taken as truth because other Jews and even euros would not beleive that they would lie to hurt their own nation. the israeli left is the prime origin of the libels which murdered the jewish children in france. it is their authentication of the blood libels which the world jewry and others beleive. the results of their lies is dead jewish children in europe and in my view they are no less guilty than eichmann or Goebbels in the murder of jewish children.
their libels are being facilitated by treating their intentional lies as a “difference of opinion” but that is like saying that the old church blood libels of jews that incited pogroms and murdered jews were simply a differnce of opinion.
Libelers of Jews should be considered attempted murderers, colaborators in murder and genocide.
whenever I see them lie, I hope for their suffeirng and death. whenever, I see them lie I see them as a budding hitler who should be liquidated. For me, I cannot accept the narrative of a “difference of opinion” which allows them to continue to murder Jews and neither should any gov of Israel or the jews. If one cannot openly destroy europe or send it into chaos and suffering then one should clandestinely accomplish that goal by facilitating the honor killers in their quest to destroy europe… it can begin by covertly expanding the criminal smuggling networks as gazans pay 10k to go to europe and 50% would go if they had more cash. What could make more sense than getting rid of the honor killers and at the same time visiting them on our perennial jew stalkers, for much less money than other “pay them to leave” programs that do not even have the extra benefit of plaguing the euros?
Exactly. The anti-Semites cannot be defeated until their liberal Jewish enablers have been defeated.
DISAPPOINTED????? 😛 😛 😛
an incompetent Israeli and Jewish leadership which allows the euros a free hand in their war on the jews and Israel, both inside and outside of Israel. If the GOI can never do anything in Israel to punish these bastards, and the leftist Israeli kapo traitor murderers who facilitate them, then one should not expect any rescue from the outside. The traitorous israeli kapo left are the ones who give wings to the euro libels… they always end up quoting the lies of israeli leftists who take their euromoney as payment for the murder of israel.
the problem is NOT the UNHRC it is the european churches and govs who merely continue their 2000 year war against the jews. the UNHRC simply does what the euros instructs. All the incitement and maneuvering against Israel originates with the euros. Instead of being disappointed with the euros and allowing them to maintain their cover and disguise they must be revealed as the filthy despicable jews stalkers they have always been. Israel needs leadership that stops fooling the jewish people about europe. theeir reparations and holocaust ceremonies are a mask for their massive delgitimizationa nd libel campaign aagainst Israel and their massive BDS church and eurogov funding of terrorists against Israel. The lies which the euros have supported and given wings to are the same as the blood libels of the past…. those lies killed the jewish children in france because the muslim terror stooges beleived the euros when they told the lies iin the first place. the euros know these are lies and continue their masquerade and the Jews, especially the leftist eurobuttlicker Jews, are enablers who facilitate this murder of Jewish children. the israeli left is the main ones to blame because without their kapo lies to the the euro press the Jewish children in france would not now be dead. All these murderers are no less guilty than eirchmann who was brought to the gallows… the gallows must be brought to europe and their BDS defamer allies in order to prevent another pogrom and holocaust that starts with euro lies.
Israels leadership ignores this euro war and allows them free rein in Israel. their BDS churches and membership must be nationalized, closed down, confiscated,and all deported for their crimes. The israeli left are kapo traitors facilitating the murder of jewish children in france.
Re Ted Belman:
Ted, I have to take exception to your comments. India in the past voted against Israel, so its abstention marks a shift in New Delhi’s attitude towards the Jewish State. Its a moral victory of sorts. On the other hand, the so-called civilized Europeans voted to condemn Israel. That says a great more about them than the object of their wrath, none to their credit.
The UNHRC is a weapon against Israel wielded by Arab states and their supporters.
It has a unique Agenda 7 item dedicated only to Israel. No other country is singled out for special treatment.
The UNHRC has passed more resolutions against Israel than the rest of the world combined.
One would never believe a country with an exemplary human rights standard gets such degrading treatment while countries with abysmal human rights records escape scrutiny altogether.
UNHRC is as corrupt as its evil.