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Israel envoy: UN Human Rights Council betrayed its own values
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News 

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Professor Gabriela Shalev, said on Friday at the organization's weekly assembly that the UN Human Rights Council had betrayed the very values and principles it was established to protect.

Shalev spoke after the assembly was issued the Rights Councils' annual activity report, which includes the Goldstone report findings that accuse Israel and the Palestinians of war crimes during the Gaza offensive in December 2008.

Friday's discussion preceded the upcoming deliberation on Wednesday at the UN assembly regarding the report's conclusions.
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Shalev accused the council of constant and exclusive discrimination against Israel and said that more than half of the council's meetings have dealt with condemning Israel for one reason or another.

Shalev also said that the council has approved more resolutions critical of Israel than resolutions criticizing any other UN member country.

In regard to the controversial report compiled by the South African former Judge Richard Goldstone, Shalev said that it is a reminder that the UN rights council is dominated and used by countries obsessed with demonizing Israel and its democratic nature.

The ambassador concluded by saying that the basic human rights of thousands of innocent people are violated throughout the world on a daily basis, but the council has and remains silent to their plight.

Last week Palestinian diplomats in Geneva pushed to bring forward the UN Human Rights Council debate on the alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces and Palestinian militants as stated in the Goldstone report.

Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said the request for an urgent meeting was prompted by violence in Jerusalem that he blamed on Israel and which he also wants discussed.

Earlier this month, the Palestinian Authority agreed to delay debating the UN report on the conflict until March over concerns that going ahead now could harm the fragile Middle East peace process. The decision led to street protests by Palestinians and condemnation around the Arab world.

"We deferred, so we were expecting that the Israelis should respect in some way human rights, but this act of aggression against people, against the human rights and humanitarian law, is unbelievable," Khraishi said.


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      1.   "...CRITICAL OF ISRAEL...MORE THAN... 18:48  |  EL 30/10/09
      2.   No Israel has no Values thats the problem 18:50  |  Ezra 30/10/09
      3.   And yet, absolutely no counterargument by Israel 18:53  |  Greg 30/10/09
      4.   Looks Like Shalev Is Doing the Demonising 19:04  |  Yaakov Sullivan 30/10/09
      5.   So true Gabriela. If the truth hurts say "ouch", UN. 19:11  |  4:20 30/10/09
      6.   problems u have to face 19:25  |  Imad 30/10/09
      7.   Two wrongs don`t make a right 19:50  |  Colin Wright 30/10/09
      8.   Israel and Human Rights Abuse 19:50  |  Cynic 30/10/09
      9.   Could it be? 20:01  |  hollingsworth 30/10/09
      10.   Israel and Human Rights Abuse 20:01  |  Cynic 30/10/09
      11.   Is there a piece of the puzzle missing here? 20:05  |  O 30/10/09
      12.   Every country commits crimes against humanity! 20:24  |  ben 30/10/09
      13.   Colin Wright 20:37  |  judith 30/10/09
      14.   #1-Colin 20:39  |  Louis Fried 30/10/09
      15.   To Colin Wright and Cynic 20:49  |  Edifice 30/10/09
      16.   To Colin and Cynic 20:56  |  Akiva 30/10/09
      17.   Coli Wright wants to muzzle mention of murder sown by USAF drones 21:18  |  Absolute Sweden 30/10/09
      18.   the israeli nerve mr cynic 21:31  |  sani 30/10/09
      19.   colin wright 21:39  |  sani 30/10/09
      20.   To Akiva - where is your indignation to the eviction and 21:41  |  Neutral 30/10/09
      21.   akiva 3 21:55  |  potobac 30/10/09
      22.   Akiva 21:59  |  DrNassh 30/10/09
      23.   #1 and #2 (please don`t censor) 22:02  |  Aish 30/10/09
      24.   To Akiva 22:20  |  Janice 30/10/09
      25.   get real Akiva 22:21  |  p. 30/10/09
      26.   Akiva 22:30  |  israeli 30/10/09
      27.   Akiva 22:32  |  Michael 30/10/09
      28.   THE U. N. 22:38  |  The Teacher/Instruct 30/10/09
      29.   The UN !!!! 22:39  |  Sam 30/10/09
      30.   To Akiva 23:05  |  Maki 30/10/09
      31.   Self examination 23:12  |  Arieh Zimmerman 30/10/09
      32.   To #2 Cynic 23:14  |  JW 30/10/09
      33.   Israel envoy 23:42  |  tommy 30/10/09
      34.   two wrights are completely wrong 23:42  |  vhardman 30/10/09
      35.   If you don`t like the UNHCR and others criticising you for abuses 00:24  |  Richard Pearce 31/10/09
      36.   Tommy of Dublin 00:58  |  John Q. Public 31/10/09
      37.   To Colin, Cynic, Arieh, and tommy 01:52  |  KT 31/10/09
      38.   KT: you zio`s are the ones decided to make war on islam 02:37  |  consider 31/10/09
      39.   Look At What A British SoldierTestified Before The UN Human Right 03:21  |  Eli 31/10/09
      40.   To KT on human rights abuse and statistics 03:43  |  Cynic 31/10/09
      41.   OK, new ideas......Linkage to all human rights 04:22  |  Lynn 31/10/09
      42.   John Q Public 04:26  |  Kieran 31/10/09
      43.   Israel Betrayed Its Jewish Roots 04:39  |  Vladek 31/10/09
      44.   #10 KT, compare apples and apples, not apples and oranges 05:15  |  Richard Pearce 31/10/09
      45.   300,000 Tamils vanish into thin air 08:26  |  MT 31/10/09
      46.   O the responsibility of his failing may be yours. 11:30  |  Petra 31/10/09
      47.   Enough of Israel always being `the victim` 12:36  |  r cummings 31/10/09
      48.   SULLIVAN"Demonising`?1.Mary Robinson"guided not by human rights-" 12:40  |  PETER SM 31/10/09
      49.   Human Rights 13:30  |  Charles 31/10/09
      50.   Perhaps, Petra 13:41  |  O 31/10/09
      51.   It had values? 13:58  |  17 31/10/09
      52.   holisworth - it depends how one sees it - 14:02  |  17 31/10/09
      53.   Too late, Shalev 14:22  |  Thor 31/10/09
      54.   TO CHARLES@49 AND THE REST OF YOU WHINERS 15:28  |  ZIONIST JEW 31/10/09
      55.   Peter SM and biased report 15:33  |  r cummings 31/10/09
      56.   The UN a bunch of criminal dictators 16:35  |  arik 31/10/09
      57.   Israel betrayed the United Nations! 3rd try... 16:53  |  BBSNews 31/10/09
      58.   Armchhair terrorists be honest did they fix one human right issue 17:56  |  Dan 31/10/09
      59.   EL, remind me how any millions US killed in Iraq, Afganistan? 17:57  |  Look who is talking 31/10/09
      60.   The Tactics of the Terrorists and Their Neo Liberal... 19:14  |  Tim R 31/10/09
      61.   Not Offensive (#To much try) Here is something for UN 19:58  |  Gil 31/10/09
      62.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHDyuSTneA&NR=1 20:34  |  Gil 31/10/09
      63.   OIL OIL OIL 21:13  |  TOBIA 31/10/09
      64.   gabriela replays the same old tune that israel`s a victim (2nd tr 22:30  |  eric 31/10/09
      65.   Shalev made her point though the UN isn`t listening 01:17  |  Jason 01/11/09
      66.   A Moral Atrocity-Harold Evans,The Guardian, 20 October 2009 01:21  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
      67.   gabriela replays the old tune about israel being the victim (2nd 01:51  |  eric 01/11/09
      68.   A Moral Atrocity 2 Harold Evans The Guardian 01:58  |  PETER SM 01/11/09
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      70.   Re: Look who is talking: - no comparison 05:14  |  Don Boston 01/11/09
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