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First Time: U.N. Rights Body Defies U.S. with “Right to Peace” Resolution Giving Legitimacy to Terror Sponsors include Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba GENEVA, July 5 – The U.N.’s top human rights body defied the U.S. today by adopting a Cuban-led “right to peace” resolution that endorses resistance against “foreign occupation,” for the first time granting U.N. Human Rights Council legitimization of the terminology used by Middle East extremists to justify terrorist attacks against Americans and Israelis. Initiated by Cuba, the resolution’s co-sponsors included Syria, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Belarus, China, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. The Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch expressed serious concerns over the text. “The U.N. was founded on moral clarity,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, “yet today the Syrian regime, which denies its people the right to life, was allowed to join with Iran, North Korea and other tyrannies to cynically present themselves as champions of peace.” “It’s a sick joke that mocks the victims of these murderous regimes, and the majority should never have gone along with the farce. Today’s resolution is eerily similar to the mass slogan used in 1984, George Orwell’s totalitarian dystopia: War is Peace.” The vote result was 34 in favour, with only the US voting no. Abstaining were Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Switzerland. The U.S. described the resolution’s call to draft a new U.N. declaration on the right to peace as “divisive” and “detrimental to efforts to achieve peace,” saying it would “sow division” and “embroil the council in contentious negotiations.” (Click here for the prepared U.S. statement.) The new program is estimated by the U.N. to cost over $300,000 to implement. The draft declaration referenced by today’s resolution was prepared by the council’s 18-member Advisory Committee, a controversial group that includes the pro-Ahmadinejad Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann; Jean Ziegler, co-founder of the Moammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize; and Halima Warzazi, a former defender of Saddam Hussein. All three are on a pending U.S. congressional watchlist. |
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This resolution has its origins in the 1970s when the UN General Assembly passed a series of resolutions which promoted the “inalienable rights of the Palestinian people…to self determination…by all means at their disposal,” culminating in the infamous UNGA Resolution 3236 of November 1974, followed by the creation of the “Committee on the Exercice of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.”
By justifying the use of “all means available” (read “terrorism”, if need be) in the struggle against “colonial occupation,” Resolution 3236 set the stage for the wide support of the Palestinians in leftist circles and did considerable harm to Israel. The “Israel Apartheid Week”, the BDS campaigns and the academic onslaught on Israel can all be traced back to Resolution 3236.
In the same way that UNGA Resolution 3379 (equating Zionism with Racism) was rescinded after 16 years (in 1991), a campaign should be launched to rescind UNGA Resolution 3236, a far more lethal and mendacious UN fabrication.
For details see article in the American Thinker.
The intention of the resolution was the “…legitimization of the terminology used by Middle East extremists to justify terrorist attacks against Americans and Israelis.”
Yes, the Americans in the Middle East can be considered “occupiers” but so are those Arabs inside Israel and inside all the territories as well. Remember that the Jews had a state in the land of Israel over 3,000 years ago and it was the Arabs who invaded and occupied the land in the year 638.
If Jewish leaders were not so corrupt and timid they would welcome this resolution and declare it as justification for Israel to claim all of its rightful land and to expel the Arab occupiers.
Just as in the time of the bible our Jewish leaders continue to betray both the Torah and the Jewish people.