Israel statement at 32nd session of UN Human Rights Council 14 Jun 2016

Israel statement at 32nd session of UN Human Rights Council
14 Jun 2016

Statement delivered by Ambassador Eviatar Manor, Permanent Representative of
Israel to the UN in Geneva

Mr. President,


This is my final Human Rights Council session. I will leave you with these
observations:

- This Council’s priorities are wide off the mark. An agenda item
specifically dedicated to my country when the tragedies of Syria, Yemen,
Iraq, Libya, to name but a few, are unfolding and producing a tsunami of
refugees about to engulf Europe? And you expect us to take you seriously?

- Politicized debates, biased resolutions, preposterous reports,
discriminatory conduct and unfounded accusations characterize the attitude
of this Council and of the OHCHR towards Israel. In its latest press
release, following a terror attack in which 4 Israelis were murdered and
dozens wounded, the OHCHR expressed deep concern on the cancelation of
83,000 permits granted to West Bank and Gaza residents to travel to Israel
during Ramadan. It characterized the move as quote “amounting to prohibited
collective punishment” unquote.

Mr. President, the right to regulate entry of non-citizens into a country is
an integral part of sovereignty which all states enjoy. Furthermore, the
terms of existing bilateral Israeli-Palestinian agreements specifically
affirm Israel's right to prevent or limit entry of persons into Israel from
the West Bank and Gaza for security and safety considerations. Just one of
many examples of double standards regarding Israel.


Mr. President,


This Council has never cared for the human rights of Israelis;

This Council has lost its bearings;

This Council needs a moral compass;

This Council has an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder regarding Israel;

This Council has not, does not and will not contribute to peace in our
region.

Think about it, and call me if you change your minds.

Thank you, Mr. President.

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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis

 

Even the US was asking Israel not to punish innocent palestinians for this attack

U.S. Urges Israel Not to Punish Innocent Palestinians for Tel Aviv Attack

While Israel's own far right cheer on the killing of Leftist Jews

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ori...assasination-yitzhak-rabin.html#ixzz4BekTTcEu

and talking of collective punishment against the Palestinians one of the killers was subject to this himself as a child, the other as a child was witness to same

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.724958

Israel is rightly scared at being brought to task for her 49 year occupation, illegal settlement and taking of lands and resources from the Palestinians while keeping them under military rule all this time, enforcing detention without trial and extra judicial killings. Of course Israel does not like the UN bringing this up.

I will end with more gentle quotes by an American Jew, Rabbi Michael Lerner, speaking at the funeral of Mohhamed Ali

whole speech here
[video=youtube;GtvuIztjQPo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtvuIztjQPo[/video]

Looking forward to the time Israel learns about human rights and gives justice to the Palestinians allowing her to sit in the UN Human Rights Council with her head held high.

 

So a member of the council throws it's toys out the stroller when it doesn't like what it hears?
I half expected to hear accusations of antisemitism in the rant.

 

Poor Israel, martyr of the world.

They should build a memorial for this, to teach us goyim how wrong we are.

 

Poor, nuclear armed Israel. Always the victim

 

What a load of cow dung. The freakin chutzpah.

 

There is a tragic tone to this speech. Jews, who led the world in the liberal advance of international law and justice free from racial and religious bias, have become heavily armed pariah thugs whose brutality and racist justification thereof have left Israel without an ally in the world except for the United States. Our American administration has been vilified and received the tattered old anti-Semitism card from a Likud party which has drifted into militarism and self-pitying hypocrisy. Even American Jews, by a wide margin, disapprove of the brutal and totally illegal annexation of the West Bank. The Jewish state, once the embodiment of enlightened liberalism, now hangs by the single thread of military force. Israel may already be in too deep to back out now. If that is the case, the Jewish homeland will disappear before this century is out,

 

They care about the almost 800.000 Arab Israeli's the Jews ethnic cleansed so they could thieve their properties.

 

The UN is a total hypocritical JOKE! It should be disbanded...

 

Israel, the only modern democracy in the region, is the shining light of the Middle East.

Despite being surrounded by pre-medieval cultures intent on destroying it, it does ok.

 

Cry me a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing river

 

The problem with this bromide is that it is increasingly inaccurate. Israel has become steadily less and less democratic since the Likud take over. Millions of Palestinians live in occupied territories to which Israel has laid claim and have no right to vote. The government of Israel recognizes limited rights of its non-Jewish citizens.

Israel is not doing OK. Israel is kept alive by its military alliance with the USA. The rest of the world sees Israel as a rogue state and a pariah. When was the last time the Jews had a "homeland" in Palestine? Almost 2,000 years ago. What happened then? History is busily repeating itself.

 

Dunno what you mean. Arab states banned Jews from leaving.
It's that lying zionist nonsense that they were kicked out,
so the Jew could justify ethnic cleansing Arabs in Israel.

 

Agreed.

 

Bill Fishlore, given your pronouncements I am dying to call you Mr. Gefiltefishlore. You know gefilte fish is stuffed fish.

Seriously- Israel is less democratic. Why? How do you know? On what do you base this sweeping assumption?

Can I see the quantitative analysis you did?

Lol....less democratic then what? Then you? Then Iran? Then Syria? Then ISIS? How did you decide that hmmm?

Wait you are more democratic? Really? Lol.



Lol. Yah yah. Israel is less democratic.

 

The sooner the UN collapses the better IMO.

The sooner the state of Israel losses finacial support from the US and Germany & has to stand on its own the better.

 

Israel is less democratic than it used to be. I cited the primary cause: the illegal annexation of territory seized in 1967, which resulted in millions of Palestinians under control of the government of Israel without the right to vote in elections for that government. More recently, Likud has proposed a new "basic law" which, while it would guarantee equal individual rights to all Israeli citizens (not Palestinians) but reserves group rights to Orthodox Jews, Those group rights include languages recognized by the government and in schools, the right to build houses of worship, municipal rights to services including water (vital in the region) and other distinctions which deny full citizenship.

I note in your response the belligerent discourtesy characteristic of Zionists attempting to defend the indefensible. I have no respect for that sort of thing. If you cannot debate with courtesy, you can go rant at somebody else,

 

The illegal annexation... the illegal annexation... wow.
a) First and foremost this is the Land of Israel (ALL OF IT)
b) The seizure of territory in a war that Israel did not initiate is (LIBERATED not occupied)
Read the following...

One of the most prominent and contentious issues in the media coverage and Arab propaganda regarding the Israel-Arab conflict is that of Jewish “occupation” of Arab lands and the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (hereafter WBGS). Unfortunately, these issues have been clouded with misleading rhetoric and propaganda mantras by both sides. To properly understand the role of the Israeli presence and settlements in the WBGS, it is necessary to review their history within the broader historical context of the Arab-Israel war, which has been proceeding without interruption since 1948.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=18543

Take this opportunity and look yourself in the mirror.

 

How many countries in the world consider it not being an occupation?

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Because the Jews ethnic cleansed almost 800.000 Arabs, and aren't allowed to vote for the sake to make Israel a Jew state where only Jew opnions matter.

 

People's definition of the word LIBERATED become more and more bizzare - you took away their land, forced some to leave and destroyed their villages, you liberated the people from having any rights and forced them to live forever under military rule while you stole their land, water and other resources, get real.

It is true that Israel was after this land from the beginning as can be seen in this UN 1971 paper talking about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and destruction of villages including Imwas, Beit Nuba, and others


https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/858C88EB973847F4802564B5003D1083

and earlier this year a video was released of Jews who fought in the 67 war saying how they went to war believing they were fighting for Israel's survival and were thrown into shock when a week later they were being ordered to evict people from their villages, something they found repugnant.

Like I say against International Law it was Israel's intention to take over the West Bank all the time. Through this time she has played a variety of porkies, from the need to security to having got no partner in peace to now when you and the Christian Zionists start saying that it is Israel.

It is not and Israel's actions are in contravention of International Law. Something Israel has always been well aware of from 67 when she hoped she had got herself more territory, her own advisors informed her that no, she could not put settlements on the West Bank, that was against International Law.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/lawpeacemideast/resources/file48485.pdf

One of those annoying things that the UN trying to look after International Law reminds Israel of.

 

You may have learned that Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel in Sunday school but such quaint mythology has no standing in international law at the United Nations. There has been no land of Israel from 72 AD until 1948 AD.

The land of Israel has been re-created after a two thousand year disappearance by two forces. One is the creation by the United Nations out of territory formerly assigned to Great Britain as a mandate (administrative responsibility) by the League of Nations. This creation was accepted by most of the UN member states but never by the Arab world, which cited the UN charter's requirement of consent of the local population as proof that 1948 Israel is illegitimate.

The second force is a rather sketchy "right of conquest" which has never been formally asserted by the Israeli government because it has no standing in international law. The seizure in 1967 of land belonging to Syria and Jordan has been condemned by huge majorites many times in the UN. The USA does not recognize such conquest, insisting that any territory outside the 1948 boundaries must be agreed to by the Palestinians and ratified by the UN.

Israel is in violation of UN 242 and has broken its agreement with the USA about settlements and the peace process. Those are facts not in dispute. Are you suggesting that Bible stories supervene over these legal realities?

 

Basically yes. It's their promised land, no human life or human made law or principle is more important.
Religious fanaticism but apparently too complex for people to realise.

 

This "Israel is in violation of this" and "Israel is in violation of that" is surely earning you points with other Palestinian lovers on this forum. Enjoy.

As for Israeli and Palestinian relations, until Palestinians stop blowing things and stab and launch rockets and build (*)(*)(*)(*)ing tunnels, they will continue to enjoy misery they call upon themselves. And no UN resolution will help them.

Simple, really.

 

Going after the organizations who murder innocent civilians is not collective punishment, it's self defense.

Poor little Cherub I weep for him may his time in hell be a pleasant one we get it now he was the real victim right not the 4 unarmed civilians he murdered right? :eyeroll:

Israel accepted the two state solution with a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank and it was rejected by the Arabs out of hand. In fact the Israelis offered the the territories it had captured back to the Arabs immediately following the 6 day war in exchange for recognition and were offered the Khartoum Resolution's 3 no's in response, "no recognition of Israel, no peace, with Israel, and no negotiation with Israel," in response.

Ah, the funeral of Mohammad Ali who was a member of one of the largest anti-Semitic hate groups in North America. Touche.

 

extremists such as yourself who encourage the murdering of British Members of Parliament have nothing to say that anyone apart from the police should listen to.

On the murder of British MP Jo Cox last week

http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=461444&page=2&p=1066308587#post1066308587