Israel cuts all ties with UN human rights watchdog over settlement row

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Israel is halting all cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) following the council’s decision to launch a fact-finding mission into the country’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry slammed the UNHCR for anti-Israeli bias, further isolating itself from the international community by moving to completely shun the inter-governmental body.

“We’re stopping all and any cooperation with the council,” a senior Foreign Ministry official said Monday, The Times of Israel reports.

“From now on, we will no longer work together in any way, shape or form with any officials from the council, including the High Commissioner,” he continued. “If anyone from the council calls us, we just won’t answer the phone."

Following the announcement of the fact finding mission, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said “the council should be ashamed of itself,” calling it a “hypocritical council with an automatic majority against Israel,” the Haaretz daily cites him as saying.

Last Thursday, the UNHCR voted to send a probe to “investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem."

The council also called on Israel “to cooperate fully with the mission."

The 47-member body adopted the draft resolution with 36 votes in favor and 10 abstentions. The United States was the only country to vote against it.

The Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi, said the move was intended to keep the possibility of a two-state solution from being nullified.

“We don’t want to isolate Israel, but when we see that Israel hasn’t stopped taking over our lands, we must act. If this situation continues, how will we be able to apply a two-state solution? The occupying power is violating international law… one day there will even be limits on the air that we breathe.”

But Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman characterized the move as another Palestinian attempt at “diplomatic terrorism.”

The expansion of Jewish settlements on the occupied territories has long been one of the primary stumbling blocks for a two-state solution.

Earlier this year, the Israeli NGO Peace Now released a report showing Israeli settlement expansion in the West bank had jumped by 20 per cent in 2011.

For the same year, the Palestine Monitor “witnessed the highest number of approved settler housing plans for Occupied East Jerusalem in the last decade.”

The trend continued into 2012, as Israeli approved the construction of 500 new homes in a settler outpost in the West Bank.

There are currently 310,000 settlers living in the West bank, with 200,000 more living in neighborhoods throughout East Jerusalem.

With that number likely to grow, the settlement issue could ultimately scuttle the flagging peace process.
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http://rt.com/news/israel-unhcr-settlement-probe-476/

Now we have diplomatic terrorism as well in over there :D
 
Well... Israel is the ambassador of human rights so it should know better than the UN.
 
killadoob said:
http://rt.com/news/israel-unhcr-settlement-probe-476/

Now we have diplomatic terrorism as well in over there :D
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Can Israel do the world a big favour, all those nukes that you may or may not have, aim it at yourselves.- and hit the button. For a people that have experienced so much pain and suffering, seems like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. How many more generations, how much more hatred.... how much more blood...??
 
yebocan said:
Can Israel do the world a big favour, all those nukes that you may or may not have, aim it at yourselves.- and hit the button. For a people that have experienced so much pain and suffering, seems like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. How many more generations, how much more hatred.... how much more blood...??
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Well at least in your suggestion all the Palestinians will also be wiped out, effectively removing the cause of all the problems in that region. The Jews would die too, but who cares about them?

The Arabs would never allow that scenario though... Allah forbid that the UNHRC or the world would look at Arab human rights records instead of shifting to Israel constantly
 
Aqua_lung said:
Well... Israel is the ambassador of human rights so it should know better than the UN.
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Indeed, they are a lot better than the members that make up the UNHCR, which is a mockery of human rights.
 
UNHCR is the High Commission for Refugees not "the council for Human Rights". Somebody has got part of the story wrong.
 
Garyvdh said:
UNHCR is the High Commission for Refugees not "the council for Human Rights". Somebody has got part of the story wrong.
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Russia Today quality reporting :D ... and its minions regurgitating their crap without having the intelligence to do small fact checks.
 
ghoti said:
Russia Today quality reporting :D ... and its minions regurgitating their crap without having the intelligence to do small fact checks.
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They probably just mixed up the acronym and not the UN committee/council.
The UNHRC has an abysmal track record of both membership countries and resolutions
 
eehellfire said:
Well at least in your suggestion all the Palestinians will also be wiped out, effectively removing the cause of all the problems in that region. The Jews would die too, but who cares about them?

The Arabs would never allow that scenario though... Allah forbid that the UNHRC or the world would look at Arab human rights records instead of shifting to Israel constantly
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oh yes, the well oiled finger pointing routine, shall we exit this juvenile merry go round...and enter the big people's room. How much more blood....how many more generations of hatred? How many more?
 
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yebocan said:
oh yes, the well oiled finger pointing routine, shall we exit this juvenile merry go round...and enter the big people's room. How much more blood....how many more generations of hatred? How many more?
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You started the finger pointing. I merely took your cue.
I think that the hatred will end when the institutionalized racism in Arab countries ends
 
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Garyvdh said:
UNHCR is the High Commission for Refugees not "the council for Human Rights". Somebody has got part of the story wrong.
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ghoti said:
Russia Today quality reporting :D ... and its minions regurgitating their crap without having the intelligence to do small fact checks.
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I believe its common practice to shorten names esp if you going to use it again in the article United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) yes happens to be the same acronym for the The UN Refugee Agency, but anybody should be able discern which organisation the article speaks about by reading the first line

Israel is halting all cooperation with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) following the council’s decision to launch a fact-finding mission into the country’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Mineer said:
I believe its common practice to shorten names esp if you going to use it again in the article United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) yes happens to be the same acronym for the The UN Refugee Agency, but anybody should be able discern which organisation the article speaks about by reading the first line
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So are they called the United Nations Human Council Rights? Cause thats what UNHCR would mean :D roflmao!!!
 
eehellfire said:
You started the finger pointing. I merely took your cue.
I think that the hatred will end when the institutionalized racism in Arab countries ends
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There is a difference between requesting the pressing of a button and finger pointing...but I digress....it can not go on like this forever...you say, they say....-has become the norm. Islam and Judaism, like most believes, have as their tenet, love....how disconnected can a people, both sides, become?
 
Meh, I think the ratio of condemnations against Israel by the UNHRC is 13:1 or something stupid. They haven't condemned Assad but they will condemn Israel. Its a farce and serves no purpose for Israel anyway.
 
Guantanamo said:
Meh, I think the ratio of condemnations against Israel by the UNHRC is 13:1 or something stupid. They haven't condemned Assad but they will condemn Israel. Its a farce and serves no purpose for Israel anyway.
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Do you have google bud?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...nvestigators/2012/03/23/gIQAJooUVS_story.html

http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/2012/03/human-rights-council-condemns-syria-abuses/

Try googling and you will see many more stories. www.google.com
 
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