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Countering Benjamin Netanyahu's Orwellian Spin at the UN

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"What's it going to take before the International community gets it together and insists, in unity, upon the upholding of international law as the rule we all live by? And that includes Israel and America, too, for both ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I wonder, what's the point of signing on, but then not doing it?

"What's it going to take to wake up the legions of blind U.S. Christian Zionists to their indifference to the misery of their sisters and brothers in Israel and Palestine? Their blind allegiance to the Israeli government has allowed our best friend in the world to become a big bully. What's it going to take to break through the ignorance that hard-earned U.S. tax dollars are being used to continue the occupation and apartheid wall?" [13]

And let us never forget that the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people happened when America bombed Hiroshima and two hundred thousand lives were vaporized within twenty minutes!

Let us never forget that violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion which began on March 2003- is now estimated to be 1,339,771 [14]

And we must never forget that the brutal sanctions imposed on Iraq in the 1990's-by the UN who was flogged into acquiescence by the USA- killed more than million Iraqis-mostly children-and according to UNICEF and WHO it was due to the sanctions which choked off the country's ability to produce clean water and dispense simple medicines!

N: Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding behind civilians � ��" Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against the rocket launchers. That was no easy task because the terrorists were firing missiles from homes and schools, using mosques as weapons depots and ferreting explosives in ambulances. Israel, by contrast, tried to minimize casualties by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas. We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave.

Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way. Yet faced with such a clear case of aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel. A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot.

E: Have you no conscience?

And by the way, Jeff Halper, American-Israeli, Founder and Coordinator of ICAHD/Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions illuminated me that "Israel is not a democracy. It is an Ethnocracy, meaning a country run and controlled by a national group with some democratic elements but set up with Jews in control and structured to keep them in control."

And I ask just where would 1.5 million people receiving flyers over their homes and phone calls escape to when they are refused access out of their open air prison?

Israel denied "a refugee option to the civilian population trapped in the tiny, crowded combat zone that constitutes the Gaza Strip. Israel closed all crossings during the period of the Gaza War, allowing only Gaza residents with foreign passports to leave. It is rare in modern warfare that civilians are not given the option to become refugees"The importance of this issue is reinforced by many accounts of the widespread post-traumatic stress experienced by the civilians in Gaza, especially children that comprise 53% of the population." [15]


N: By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth! What a perversion of justice! Delegates of the United Nations, will you accept this farce? Because if you do, the United Nations would revert to its darkest days, when the worst violators of human rights sat in judgment against the law-abiding democracies, when Zionism was equated with racism and when an automatic majority could declare that the earth is flat.

E: The statehood of Israel was contingent upon upholding the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

I can go down the list and cite the Jewish States failures, but Article 13 will suffice:
Article 13:

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

And regarding racism and Zionism, I reply by quoting Dr. Ilan Pappe:

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Eileen Fleming,is a Citizen of CONSCIENCE for US House of Representatives 2012 Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org Staff Member of Salem-news.com, A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu" (more...)
 
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