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  1. The Danger of the U.N. Please take a few minutesand read the following All copyrighted material in this presentation is being used under the fair use exemption of the US Copyright Law. MidEastTruth.com

  2. The United Nations An organization’s descent into irrelevance. How an organization built on the lofty and noble ideals of Justice, Human Rights and Freedom has collapsed under the weight of Hypocrisy, Appeasement and Double Standards. MidEastTruth.com

  3. This presentationis divided into four parts: The U.N. and Human Rights The U.N. and Anti-Semitism The U.N. and Israel Conclusion • Click on any of the blue squares to skip directly to that section.• Click elsewhere on the screen or press any key to continue the presentationnormally. MidEastTruth.com

  4. The U.N. and Human Rights MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  5. Some challenges our world is facing today: Civil Strife  Congo: 3 million slaughtered  Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan: millions suffer genocide  Pakistan, Niger, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia: millions subjected to slavery Human Rights Abuses  Torture  Arbitrary imprisonment  Child abuse, the use of children in conflicts Women’s Rights  Female genital mutilation  Rampant illiteracy  Sexual enslavement Disease  HIV/AIDS  Malaria, TB  Polio Natural Disasters  Drought  Earthquakes  Floods MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  6. Rather than intervene to ensure the safety and basic rights of the world’s inhabitants, to depose ruthless dictators, to expose and redress human rights violations… The U.N. has placed the protection of two of the world’s most notorious rulers at the head of its agenda. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  7. The majority of U.N. member states were opposed to the war in Iraq. Non-intervention in a sovereign state was seen as a higher good than unseating a “leader” who for decades ruled with a brutality that saw hundreds of thousands gassed or killed in a war with neighboring Iran. Thus, the noble cause of removing a mass murderer from power, whose diabolical intentions of obtaining weapons of mass destruction— including nuclear power— was scuttled by the U.N. “The fact that Saddam Hussein murdered more than 300,000 of his own people is a matter of complete indifference to the "Stop the War" brigade. So is the fact that, if the coalition were to stop the war, murderous thugs would seize power in Baghdad.” Oh, the Company They KeepBy Max Boot, The Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2003 Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of "The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of, American Power" (Basic Books, 2002.) Protecting Saddam Hussein MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  8. A vote in the Israeli cabinet stating that Israel reserved the right to remove Yasser Arafat, the founder of modern international terrorism (while causing him no physical harm), prompted a Security Council vote, a mere 2 days later, followed by a Special Emergency Session in the General Assembly. Protecting Yasser Arafat MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  9. Dick Locher, Chicago — The Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  10. Clearly, when it comes to safeguarding dictators, the U.N. has demonstrated its ability to mobilize with great efficiency. Tragically, the U.N. prioritizes the protection of mass murderers and terrorists over the protection of their defenseless victims… MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  11. Michael Ramirez, The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2002 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  12. “The Armed Islamic Group in Algeria has murdered more than 100,000 Muslims in the last decade. In Chechnya, another 100,000 people, one-10th of the population, has been killed and almost half the population is displaced. In Afghanistan, the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies killed thousands of Shia. In Mauritania, tens of thousands of Muslims are held as slaves. Tens of thousands more died in the Kashmir conflict and in the civil wars in Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. Thousands more have died in Nigeria and Indonesia. The Burmese junta drove out more than a quarter million of its Rohingya Muslims in the early 1990s. In India last year some 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Gujarat, some disemboweled or burned alive while police stood by or joined in. Yet these events are passed over in silence, even within much of the Muslim world. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of many of these atrocities sit in the UN condemning events in the West Bank.” World silence over slain MuslimsBy Paul Marshall, The Boston Globe, October 13, 2003 Paul Marshall is senior fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  13. Michael Ramirez, The Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  14. “The U.S. government, with an over two-century record of forwarding human rights and defeating tyrants, is to defer to the United Nations? The duly elected leaders of the United States should step aside and let assorted dictators make key decisions affecting American national security?” The United Nations vs. American Sovereignty By Daniel Pipes, The New York Post, September 24, 2002 Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Militant Islam Reaches America. He has a Ph.D. in early Islamic history from Harvard and taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  15. By Noah Bee, December 1972. On December 18, 1972, the United Nations voted down a U.S. resolution calling for strong action against the rising occurrence of airplane hijackings. This cartoon criticizes the influence of Middle Eastern countries in determining the outcome. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  16. “Americans finally had a look inside the sausage factory. Their image of the United Nations as a legitimating institution had always been deeply sentimental, based on the United Nations of their youth — UNICEF, refugee help, earthquake assistance. A global Mother Teresa. That's what they thought of the United Nations, and that's why they held it in esteem and cared about what it said. Now they know that it is not UNICEF collection boxesbut a committee of cynical, resentful, ex-imperial powers such as France and Russia serving their own national interests — and delighting in frustrating America's — without the slightest reference to the moral issues at stake. The American public understands that this is not a body with which to entrust American values or American security.” Don't Go Back to the U.N. By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, March 21, 2003 Charles Krauthammer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  17. Scott Stantis, AL — The Birmingham News, August 28, 2002 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  18. “…why has the U.N. not been moved by the massacre of 1 million Sudanese black Christians at the hands of their Muslim rulers? How about the deaths of untold numbers of Muslims by the Russians in Chechnya? What about the persistent attacks on Hindus in India by Muslims — a ghastly firebomb attack on a train full of people (the terrorists locked the doors after torching the train) being one of the more recent examples? Why has the United Nations never investigated China for gunning down hundreds in Tiananmen Square and killing thousands of others more quietly? Why has the U.N. never investigated Saddam Hussein for gassing his Kurdish population or the Syrian government for the massacre at Hama, in which up to 20,000 were killed in one day? And why, pray, could the United Nations, as well as Europe and the rest of the world (with the shining exception of the United States of America), never bat an eye asinnocent Israeliswere bombed and maimed on a daily basis for 18 months to the evident delight of even "moderate" Arab states. And why, with this despicable record, do liberals continue to hold the "world community" in such awe?” Some questions By Mona Charen, TownHall.com,April 26, 2002 Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C. area. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  19. Michael Ramirez, The Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  20. “In the Alice in Wonderland world of the United Nations, the delegates cannot agree on the meaning of the word “terrorism.” On this side of the United Nations rabbit hole, terrorism is the use of terror as a means to cause intense fear, to demoralize, to intimidate, to subjugate or to coerce, especially for political purposes. In a sane world, it would be obvious that suicide bombers who repeatedly blow up busloads of innocent people are practicing terrorism. The United Nations cannot accept that definition. Even after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the General Assembly of United Nations could not agree on a complete terrorism strategy. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Anne Bayefsky, adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School, professor of political science at York University, Toronto, and a member of the governing board of U.N. Watch, said attempts to arrive at a consensus on terrorism are consistently blocked, especially by Arab and Islamic nations. …Sudan, a country that practices slavery, torture and routine mutilation of its citizens, recently had U.N. reports of its abuses dropped thanks to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Also recently, the same commission sanctioned the use of “all available means including armed struggle” against Israel. The U.N. human rights commission approved suicide bombings and terrorism.” U.N. Hypocrites Can't Define Terrorism By Rowland Nethaway, New London Day, May 3, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  21. “One of the reasons it [the U.N.] fails is that it's pretty much designed to. There is no vision, no set of shared values that truly unites the United Nations. You can't have a civil rights organization where Klansmen are welcomed as members; you can't have a softball team where half the players want to play basketball, and you can't have a global organization dedicated to the spread of human rights and democracy with nearly half the members representing barbaric, corrupt regimes. And because the U.N. feels it must be "fair" to everybody, the worst abusers get to take turns determining policies on human rights and weapons proliferation. Right before the war, Iraq was set to co-chair the U.N. Commission on Disarmament - with Iran! And even now the U.N. Commission on Human Rights is chock-a-block with representatives of nations that treat their own citizens like piñatas.” Scrap the U.N., create League of DemocraciesBy Jonah Goldberg, townhall.com, December 3, 2003 Jonah Goldberg is editor at large of National Review Online. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  22. John Trever, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 5, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  23. “The commission is the primary U.N. organ responsible for human rights protection. The current chair is Libya. Yes, Libya. In addition to Libya, three of the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism are current members—Cuba, Sudan and Syria. …The sad fact is that the U.N. is not only a failed leader in the protection of human rights, but is itself a substrate of xenophobia and aggression. The U.S. pays 22% of the U.N.'s regular budget. Yet today's U.N. operates in fundamental opposition to the values of the U.S.—and to its own universal human-rights foundations.” Human Wrong By Anne Bayefsky, The Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2003 Anne Bayefsky, an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School and professor of political science at York University, Toronto, is a member of the governing board of UN Watch. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  24. Dana Summers, Orlando, FL, The Orlando Sentinel, January 28, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  25. “The United Nations is perceived by most Americans as indispensable for maintaining stability in the world. That was certainly the intent when it was created at the end of World War II. Its charter proclaims that "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women" are principles central to peace and security. Regrettably, the U.N. has failed to act upon the centrality of human rights to its mission.Secretary-General Kofi Annan apparently recognized this reality in his Nobel lecture when he said: "The sovereignty of states must no longer be used as a shield for gross violations of human rights.” Since the U.N.'s creation, millions have been killed, maimed, starved, tortured or raped by brutal rulers whose governments nevertheless wield great influence in the U.N. General Assembly and the Security Council. These facts clearly reflect the inadequacies and failures of the U.N. For example, North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong Il, has inflicted a holocaust on his people. Defectors and observers have estimated that more than a million people have starved to death in brutal Gulag-type camps. The resulting flood of refugees into China, where an estimated 360,000 North Koreans may now be hiding in an effort to escape brutality, has not produced action in the U.N., though the U.N. High Commission on Refugees is fully aware of this human catastrophe. China classifies these tragic human beings as "economic migrants" and "not refugees," while cynically embracing the refugee convention as the "Magna Carta of international refugee law" and thereby earning the applause of U.N. officials… Continued on next slide >>> Caucus of Democracies By Max M. Kampelman, The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2004 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  26. <<< Continued from previous slide“…The U.N. Human Rights Commission has become a travesty. Two years ago, the U.S.—which has worked diligently to make the commission an effective instrument—was replaced by Syria, a corrupt, totalitarian supporter of terrorism. This year, in spite of American efforts, Libya was elected to chair the commission, an egregious challenge to the commission's integrity considering Libya's rule by a militant tyrant responsible for the 1988 bombing of a U.S. civilian jet in Lockerbie in which 270 people were murdered. U.S. opposition to Libya was supported only by Canada and Guatemala; 33 countries voted for Libya, while our European "friends" conspicuously abstained from voting at all. In electing such states as Syria, Libya, Vietnam, China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Zimbabwe to serve on the commission, the ostensible guardian of human rights, the U.N. has forfeited its commitment to those values… Is it any wonder that many Americans hesitate to place our security concerns in the hands of the U.N.? Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as he was leaving his role as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1976, called it a "theater of the absurd."” Caucus of Democracies By Max M. Kampelman, The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2004 Mr. Kampelman was U.S. ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  27. Sandy Huffaker, caglecartoons.com, February 3, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  28. “The U.N. sees no great danger posed by totalitarian nations imposing their will on neighbors – regimes like the one in Syria. Syria, in fact, even served as chairman of the Security Council during the month of June this year. Yet, there is only one nation actually occupying another in the Mideast today, and that one nation is Syria, which has a political and military stranglehold on Lebanon. The U.N. sees no great danger when a nation like Sudan makes war on its own people because of race and religion. The Islamic radicals who run the country have aided Osama bin Laden in the past. Today they are content to continue the mass murder of Christians and animists in the southern region of the country and in the Nubian mountain region. The U.N. sees no great danger in tribal wars like the one that flared in Rwanda, resulting in the deaths of more than 1 million people. In fact, the evidence is now clear the U.N. had advance knowledge of the impending slaughter and did nothing to prevent or even condemn it. The U.N. sees no great danger in the wholesale, government-sponsored, racist land-grabs currently underway in Zimbabwe, for instance. White farmers are being held hostage and murdered in a systematic, orchestrated, forceful and violent campaign of wealth redistribution. Not as much as a whimper of concern was expressed by the U.N. Conference on Racism.” The trouble with the U.N. By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com,October 4, 2002 Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  29. Syria A country that supports, controls and harbors the Hizballah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, PFLP and is on the US State Department’s list ofstates that sponsor terror, is a member of the U.N. Security Council. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  30. “The almost unopposed selection of Syria to hold a rotating seat on the UN Security Council is an embarrassment to the US, but first and foremost to the UN itself. That such a travesty could proceed so smoothly is a mark of the disdain with which free nations must hold the UN, and of how far that body has strayed from its founding ideals. Electing Syria to the Security Council is the equivalent of electing a mobster to the police oversight board. According to the UN Charter, it is the Security Council that determines the existence of any "threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and decides how to "maintain or restore international peace and security." Two weeks ago, the Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism is a threat to "international peace and security" and decided that all states must "deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts." The ink is not yet dry on this resolution, but the election of Syria, of all nations, to the post of judge and jury renders its implementation suspect, to say the least. Syria is not just in wholesale violation of this Security Council resolution, but is at the forefront of attempting to legitimate terrorism in the international arena. …The Syrian government hosted in its capital the leaders of all the organizations it calls "national liberation movements": Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and the PFLP. All four of these groups engage in terrorism, reject all efforts to negotiate peace with Israel, are virulently anti-American, and are listed by the US State Department as terrorist organizations.” Mark of Disdain Editorial, The Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2001(one month after Sept. 11, 2001) MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  31. Gary Clement, The National Post, April 18, 2002 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  32. “Last week, the US was voted out of the UN Human Rights Commission. Rights violating nations such as Sudan, Libya, and Syria, were voted in. What does this vote tell us about the nature of the UN and of its members? Well, it clearly tells us that most of the UN’s members don’t care for human rights. If they did, they would not have elected savage dictatorships and terrorist sponsors to oversee and protect human rights in the world. Nobody that really cared about hens would put the foxes in charge of the hen-house. According to the UN itself, Sudan’s government is directly responsible for “displacement, starvation, and killing of civilians, looting and burning of villages, abductions and rape.”Libya and Syria have been known sponsors of international terrorism for over three decades. Sierra Leone, another country voted in, has been recently denounced by the UN for committing “abuses of human rights … with impunity, in particular atrocities against civilians …including executions, mutilations, abductions, arbitrary detention, forced labor, looting, [and] killings of journalists.” But we shouldn’t really be surprised with the vote’s outcome. After all, Russia has been in the UN Human Rights Commission since its creation, in 1947, despite having been a totalitarian state where human rights were non-existent for most of that time. How then could the commission have had any credibility at all? The answer is that the presence of the US gave the UN Human Rights Commission credibility. Now that the US is gone, it has none. Americans should realize this fact and start asking themselves a couple of questions. For instance: Should the US have been sitting in the commission with communist Russia for almost half a century? And more importantly, should the US still be a member in the UN alongside dozens of dictatorships that have no respect for human rights? Why should the US grant these nations the legitimacy that they do not deserve?” The United States Should Withdraw From the United Nations By David Holcberg, Capitalism Magazine, May 12, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  33. Annan With Arafat Annan With Cuba’sCastro Annan With Iran’s Khatami Annan With Syria’s al-Shara Annan With Saddam Annan With Hizballah’s Nasrallah UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is shown with infamous dictators and leaders of terror organizations, further undermining the legitimacy of the U.N. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  34. The U.N. and Anti-Semitism MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  35. Michael DeAdder, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — The Daily News. (10/22/01) The U.N. and Anti-Semitism MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  36. “…Daily incidents of anti-Semitic violence around the globe are reported in the media. Yet while leaders of the Free World condemn synagogue bombings in Turkey, fire-bombings of Jewish schools in France, and the hate speech of Malaysia's president who now heads the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the U.N. moves in the opposite direction, encouraging the proliferation of this centuries-old hatred. …The U.N. is an organization founded on the ashes of the Jewish people, and whose core human rights principles were drafted from the lessons of the Holocaust. The inability of the organization to address seriously one of the very evils it was intended to prevent is a scandal of global proportions. In 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared, "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind." Fifty-five years later the outrage is gone, the silence of the U.N. when it comes to anti-Semitism is deafening, and the only ones benefiting are those planning future barbarous acts against Jews everywhere.” The U.N.'s Dirty Little Secret By Anne Bayefsky, The Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  37. “Despite the unprecedented wave of antisemitism sweeping Europe and the Arab and Moslem world, this resolution never had any realistic chance of passing in the United Nations General Assembly.” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, referring to the U.N.’s decision not to pass a resolution seeking to condemn antisemitism, December 4, 2003 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  38. “Jeane Kirkpatrick once remarked that while she was a professor of political science there were two mysteries she could not understand: how the Holocaust could have happened, and how the rest of the world could have let it happen.Things became clear once she took her post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1981. The anti-Semitism of many member nations, and the reluctance of others to compromise their "neutrality" while pursuing their own political ends, were almost as much on view during her tenure at the United Nations as they had been in Europe four decades earlier. …In allowing the Arab countries to internationalize their war against the Jewish State, the United Nations has endangered Jews in new ways. Whereas earlier anti-Semitism could be identified with its evil sponsors and morally, if not militarily, countered, the United Nations lends its presumed legitimacy and prestige to anti-Semitism. The Jew-hatred of certain Arabs and Muslims is one thing; Muslim clerics have even distorted the Koran's injunction against suicide to encourage more killings of Jews in Israel and elsewhere. But on university campuses students now cite the U.N. as the source of their antipathy to the Jewish state. They accept "that hardy perennial, the condemnation of Israel," as a moral beacon rather than the sign of corruption that it is.” The U.N.'s Jewish Problem By Ruth R. Wisse, The Weekly Standard,March 31, 2002 Ruth Wisse is a professor of Yiddish literature and comparative literature at Harvard University. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  39. The U.N. Conference Against Racism Durban, South Africa, 31 August - 7 September 2001 Dick Wright, The Columbus Dispatch, OH, October 23, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  40. “This Conference [The U.N. Conference Against Racism, Durban 2001] is supposed to be about combating racism. Instead it has been seized by those who foment it. It has become a global forum for racism. A racist anti-racism conference. How has the UN come to promote such an environment? Can it yet pull back from the brink of a disaster for the principle of the universality of human rights, their application to victims everywhere, and from the grave discredit to the institution itself which is so close at hand? What a tragedy if the very foundation of the UN itself should be forced to serve as its epitaph… The outset of the 21st century sees the very United Nations which stands on the ashes of 6 million Jewish dead including one and a half million children slaughtered for being born Jewish in an unparalleled catastrophe in human history sponsoring a world conference which gives vent - neigh promotes - the Jew as undeserving and villainous, and Jewish self-determination as illegitimate and evil. Anti-Semitism is not merely an historical phenomenon. One need only come to the World Conference on Racism to watch it metastasize… Continued on next slide >>> Address By Professor Anne Bayefsky, Representative of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, U.N. Conference Against Racism, Durban, August 29, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  41. <<< Continued from previous slide • “…In the draft documents of both the NGO and Government Conference: • The word "holocaust" is in square brackets, may or may not be plural, or started with a capital H - thereby questioning the reality of Jews as the victims of the most heinous crime committed against a people in history. • The place and the meaning of the word antisemitism in a document supposed to be condemning racial discrimination in all its manifestations remains controversial and at issue - in footnotes and in brackets. • Language likening the Jewish state to an apartheid regime thereby criminalizing its purpose and its very essence. • Language containing wild accusations - such as genocide or ethnic cleansing - directed only to Israel, virtually ignoring the other 190 states of the UN. • Continued on next slide >>> • Address By Professor Anne Bayefsky, • Representative of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, • U.N. Conference Against Racism, Durban, August 29, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  42. <<< Continued from previous slide • Furthermore, this conference and its preparatory process include: • • An official UN regional conference leading up to this Conference which banned the very participation of accredited Jewish NGOs. • • Virulent hate literature - Jews with hooked noses, blood dripping from fangs, with pots of money surrounding the victims, distributed on the grounds of this Conference in officially-sanctioned booths of participants. • • Harassment and intimidation of Jewish participants registering for this Conference. • • Clothing freely distributed with the official NGO World Conference logo inciting hatred and violence towards the Jewish state. • Continued on next slide >>> • Address By Professor Anne Bayefsky, • Representative of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, • U.N. Conference Against Racism, Durban, August 29, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  43. <<< Continued from previous slide • “...And this Conference has become the vehicle for those who spread the biggest Nazi-like lie of all - that Jewish self-determination - Zionism - is itself racist… • Antisemitism was deliberately omitted in the Vienna Declaration of Human Rights. The Holocaust was deliberately omitted from the statement adopted at the General Assembly on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the UN Charter. • This is antisemitism, UN-sponsored antisemitism: • • Israel is not an equal member of the world community. • • Addressing racism against Jews - antisemitism - is controversial and stymies consensus - in the words of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee at the Vienna World Conference. • • The Holocaust is allegedly of significance only to a special interest group and its mention somehow advantages the Jewish victim.” • Address By Professor Anne Bayefsky, • Representative of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, • U.N. Conference Against Racism, Durban, August 29, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  44. Kevin Siers, North Carolina, The Charlotte Observer, October 23, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  45. The U.N. and Israel MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  46. “…Israel is also the only UN member state denied membership in any of the UN's five regional groups, which elect UN bodies in Geneva. Elections in the UN are normally based on regional representation or slates prearranged by regional groups. Israel qualifies for membership in the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), composed of geographically diverse states including Canada and Australia. But WEOG, driven by states such as France, refuses to admit Israel to its Geneva operations. This has the consequence that Israel cannot be elected to a whole range of UN bodies. For instance, Israel cannot stand for election to WIPO — the World Intellectual Property Organization. Similarly, Israel is prevented from running for the International Labour Organization's Governing Body. Lacking UN regional group membership in Geneva means that Israel is the only UN member forced to sit out consultations on draft resolutions and UN Geneva-based business of all kinds. Israel is refused any possibility of participating in the consultations of regional bodies in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development the World Health Organization. The meetings behind closed doors of regional groups at the Commission on Human Rights negotiate the language of resolutions on all subjects without any Israeli participation. In recent years, Sweden and Co. in the European Union have enjoyed negotiating an agreed-upon level of hostility on the myriad anti-Israel resolutions with Arab states on the commission, before Israeli diplomats got a copy of a first draft.Even Israel's limited participation in the WEOG regional group in New York is circumscribed by the caveat that existing rotation schemes not be disturbed. The result? WEOG membership in the UN Economic and Social Council has already been tied up until 2021… Continued on next slide >>> Israel's Second-class Status at The UN By Anne Bayefsky, The National Post, February 18, 2002 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  47. <<< Continued from previous slide “…As for UN staffers, official lists of the UN secretariat from July 2002 count 24Israelis and 27 from "Palestine." Algeria, Bahrain, China, Cuba, Libya, SaudiArabia, Sudan, Syria, and Zimbabwe pass judgment on human rights at the UN Commission on Human Rights. China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates specialize in the rights of women at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Iran is one of five members on the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Libya, SaudiArabia, and Sudan scrutinize the implementation of labour standards on the Governing Council of the International Labour Organization. In the meantime, representatives and experts from the democratic and Jewish state of Israel are disqualified, blackballed, or left standing in the halls of UN bodies everywhere.” Israel's Second-class Status at The UN By Anne Bayefsky, The National Post, February 18, 2002 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

  48. "Israel is the only UN member not permitted to stand for election to the full range of UN bodies. So while membership of the UN Human Rights Commission now includes Cuba, Libya, Sudan and Syria — four of the seven states designated as state sponsors of international terrorism by the U.S. State Department — Israel cannot even be a candidate.”* Why we shouldn't trust the UN By Anne Bayefsky, The Globe and Mail, April 26, 2002 * Since its creation in 1948 and until May 2000, Israel was the only UN member state excluded from a UN regional grouping, because Arab states rejected Israel's claim to the Asian group (where it belongs geographically). As a result, Israel was barred from a number of important UN bodies. In May 2000, Israel was accepted as a temporary member of the Western European and Other States Group (WEOG), theoretically remedying the situation. This arrangement was to go into effect two years later, and as of May 2002, Israel can (theoretically at least) be elected to the Human Rights Commission or to the Security Council. However, Israel is still the only UN member that is not permitted to participate in any of the key daily consultations of regional groups which take place during the commission itself. MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

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  50. “The concerted anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic campaign that has blossomed under United Nations auspices is seriously undermining its credibility. The Durban conference may have put this anti-Israel, anti-Semitic animus on full display, but it has been present for decades, as witness the passage of the despicable "Zionism is racism" resolution (since rescinded); the unwarranted obsession with Israel at the UN Commission on Human Rights; the singular institutional discrimination that blocked Israeli membership in a UN regional group; the annual UN General Assembly anti-Israel resolutions; and the bogus extraordinary emergency sessions that exclusively blame Israel for the conflict, while ignoring Palestinian violence and terrorism… Continued on next slide >>> UN gives green light to Palestinian terror By Keith Landy, The National Post,December 8, 2001 MidEastTruth.com Back to Index Page

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