The United Nations High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana said during a press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni that the UN has no sufficient data to determine whether the Hizbullah can be included in the list of terror organizations. He also added that the issue at hand is legal, not ethical.
This truly is unbelievable. What's next, calling them "freedom fighters"? "Resistance against the Zionist aggressor"? If this is the UN's attitude towards Hizbollah, I withdraw my earlier statements and don't want the UN to do anything against the current crisis.
Luckily my blogmother Alexandra von Maltzan at All Things Beautiful wrote a magnificent post about the UN's attitude towards Israel just today.
And the UN is leading the charge as the usual suspects apply the same old double standards when it comes to judging what statements or attitudes constitute 'anti-Semitism' in comparison to, say, 'racism' against African-Americans. Imagine the outcry, if during an official UN "anti-racism" summit the 'Lawyer's Union of the Southern States' would distribute flyers with a picture of the Confederate Battle flag and the inscription, "What if we had won? The good thing—there would be no Civil Rights Act of 1871 and no Monroe v. Pape." Now, what do you think Al Sharpton would do....
You ask, who is the 'Lawyer's Union of the Southern States'? Pure invention of mine and solely to put the terribly biased conduct of the UN into context: The 'Arab Lawyer’s Union', freely distributed at the UN's "anti-racism" summit in Durban, South Africa, just before 9/11 flyers with a picture of Hitler and the words, "What if I had won? The good thing—there would be no Israel"; they freely distributed books containing cartoons of swastika-festooned Israelis and fanged, hooked-nosed Jews, blood dripping from their hands.
How could that have been allowed to take place and why did the conference’s secretary-general, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson ignore demands to remove this anti-Semitic literature.
How come that we are now being force-fed the same one-sided reporting and UN rhetoric, much like UN’s response to Israeli military incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin in April 2002?
The UN: It's becoming more and more one big sham.
EDIT:
Hehe, my mistake, Javier Solana is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the EU. Sorry for that.
This is even more worrysome though. We can expect nonsense like this coming from the UN, but if the EU is spouting idiotic statements like this, it's time to worry.
Cross posted at Liberty and Justice
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Just a correction: Solana isn't a UN Rep., mistake by Ynetnews. Solana is a High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy,
Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union
If Hezbollah don't obviously qualify as a terrorist organisation how long can it be before other groups are demanding that the UN change their status?
It's worrying thinking just how much lower the UN can sink.
Does anyone else ever think that the UN Flag is just perfect in terms of color? It's design is not distinctive, and it's color is a washed out, weak looking blue. No bold color indicating that they are supposed to be THE international body, just a faded out looking light blue that reminds me all too well of the UN's reality.
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