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9/30/09

Times OnLine: A farcical attempt to paint Israel black - by Ron Prosor

For the complete report from the Times Online click on this link

A farcical attempt to paint Israel black - by Ron Prosor

In the history of international organizations it is hard to conceive of an institution less fit for purpose than the absurdly titled UN Human Rights Council. Since its inception in 2006, the UNHRC has included such champions of liberal values as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Cuba. There is no doubting the comic value of such membership. Analogies spring to mind of Jack the Ripper leading a disciplinary inquiry at Scotland Yard, or Dr Harold Shipman chairing a panel discussion on medical care for the elderly. Yet for Israel, on the receiving end of this surreal hypocrisy, it is no laughing matter. The latest example of its hypocrisy is the 575-page Goldstone report into the Gaza conflict at the beginning of this year. Israel, a democracy with an unquestionably free press and meticulously independent judiciary, faces a threat from terrorism unique in its intensity. Yet its obligations to defend its citizens from terror are being scrutinized, delegitimized and condemned by states in which the routine price of dissent is imprisonment without trial, torture or execution.

Note EU-Digest: We might agree or not agree with the above Times article, or even on the way how Israel conducts its foreign policy, but the fact remains that Israel is still and probably will remain the only true Democracy in the Middle East.

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