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The Plot: Use the UN to rid the world of Israel
By Bradley Burston


Imagine, for a moment, that several constituent members of the United Nations had an interest in the eventual elimination of the state of Israel.

Just to indulge the fantasy one step forward, imagine that - having failed through war to push Israel off the map, having failed through persistence to wait until despondent Israelis simply picked up and left the land to the Palestinians - they conceived a scheme to leverage their move. With the United Nations.

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They would use the UN to undo for them what, in their view, the UN once did to them. The UN, the reasoning holds, made this mess in 1947, by passing General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan for Palestine that created a Jewish state. Now the UN can help clean up the mess. And the map.

The ultimate goal, would be to have an official body with a name as irreproachable as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination endorse the Palestinian demand for the right of Palestinians and their heirs to return to properties and lands they claim within Israel.

Far-fetched? Of course it is. But if somehow it were true, it might unfold like this:

  • First, establish a UN Commission on Human Rights.

  • Stack the membership of the commission with officials of some of the most reprehensible regimes on the planet, beginning with Sudan, the site of what the UN has determined is currently the worst humanitarian crisis anywhere.

    This will ensure that the committee, which will turn a blind eye to all human rights violations in places like Myanmar, China, Cuba, Russia, Nepal, North Korea, Congo, Gabon, Guatemala, Libya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, and, especially Darfur, will be free to focus its work solely on Israel.

  • If you go too far, and the commission has become an obvious embarrassment even to the United Nations, to the point that even the General Assembly votes 170 to 4 to replace the panel with a more even-handed successor, change its name, to the Human Rights Council.

  • Make sure that the Organization of the Islamic Conference and a coalition of African despotisms keep the Darfur genocide off the agenda.

  • Make sure that the new Council specifically condemns only one country - Israel.

  • Make sure that it does so repeatedly - eight times over the past year. Pass a rule which states that a permanent feature of every council session will be a review of charges of human rights abuses by Israel.

  • Propose a rule change, which would fire many of the council's rapporteurs, experts who document human rights abuses - but which would specifically exempt from firing, those who monitor the Palestinian territories.

  • In its current session, beginning on Monday in Geneva, see to it that the heart of the deliberations will be a report commissioned by the panel that compares Israeli actions in the territories to apartheid in South Africa.

  • Finally, bring the Right of Return issue - phrased to suit foreign consumption, before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

    Now we're getting somewhere. Now Israel can be attacked and delegitimized on the one issue on which leftist and rightist Jews in Israel agree. Now Israeli military policy is irrelevant. Now the issue of occupation is irrelevant. Now even day-to-day issues of discrimination against Arabs are irrelevant.

    Now Israel can be attacked for its very essence.

    Now Israel can be attacked by people thousands of miles away, who, turning their backs on their own histories of colonization, maltreatment and annihilation of indigenous populations, xenophobia, and immigration curbs against unwanted peoples on the basis of color, creed, illiteracy and poverty, will be happy to preach regarding the way the Holy Land's problems should be solved.

    What's one less Jewish state in the world, after all?


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      1.   Sounds like 1938 all over again. 10:35  |  Yacov 12/03/07
      2.   Israel is helping a lot by making more 10:47  |  spyguy 12/03/07
      3.   The old Israeli trick 11:02  |  Sami 12/03/07
      4.   #2, spyguy 11:05  |  JB 12/03/07
      5.   Hey, Bradley 11:23  |  Clickfool 12/03/07
      6.   #3, Sami 11:23  |  JB 12/03/07
      7.   #`s2&3 Spygoy & Sami 11:32  |  Ari ben Yisrael 12/03/07
      8.   The Plot 11:32  |  Moshe 12/03/07
      9.   Right of return 11:39  |  Joe 12/03/07
      10.   RE:JB 11:41  |  Sami 12/03/07
      11.   ISRAEL TAKE THE WORLD PEACE AS A HOSTAGE 11:56  |  indrajaya 12/03/07
      12.   And that is exactly what is going on 11:59  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      13.   What`s new? 12:00  |  Jasmine Murphy 12/03/07
      14.   # 2 spyguy of san francisco 12:02  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      15.   Interesting times it would be, especially when.. 12:04  |  B. Schaepdryver 12/03/07
      16.   please clarify 12:07  |  skandar 12/03/07
      17.   plaese clarify 2 12:08  |  Skandar 12/03/07
      18.   # 5 Clicky 12:10  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      19.   Moshe # 8 12:12  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      20.   Why the secnario, Bradley? 12:14  |  Tzfonit 12/03/07
      21.   #10, Sami (1) 12:15  |  JB 12/03/07
      22.   Indrajaya # 12 12:16  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      23.   #10, Sami (2) 12:18  |  JB 12/03/07
      24.   G-D`S WORD AND ALL NATIONS ATTACKING ISRAEL ?? 12:20  |  Bill. 12/03/07
      25.   Right of reurn 12:23  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      26.   Tzfonit # 21 12:29  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      27.   # 3, SAMI 12:31  |  indrajaya 12/03/07
      28.   The Plot: Use UN to rid the world of Israel`s enemies 12:34  |  Joe 12/03/07
      29.   The open, bleeding (Israeli) wound...... 12:35  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/07
      30.   # 17, SKANDAR 12:36  |  indrajaya 12/03/07
      31.   Mr. Burston 12:37  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      32.   True but in a fasle context! 12:39  |  An Arab Neighbor 12/03/07
      33.   #17, skandar 12:49  |  JB 12/03/07
      34.   #29, Swiss (Dino) 12:52  |  JB 12/03/07
      35.   For Bible Bill # 25 12:54  |  Clickfool 12/03/07
      36.   Plot 12:55  |  blony 12/03/07
      37.   More people trust the UN than trust Israel 13:00  |  Michael 12/03/07
      38.   Spuguy #2 13:10  |  Charles 12/03/07
      39.   Dino (Swiss) - #30 13:16  |  Chachmeister 12/03/07
      40.   Another possibility..... 13:19  |  Spoff 12/03/07
      41.   # 35 JB Okay, if you want it, you will get it...!! 13:20  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/07
      42.   # 38 Michael 13:22  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      43.   Sami, who is a Palestinian? 13:23  |  Igor 12/03/07
      44.   Let`s Pump Some Imagination Iron ! 13:25  |  Klaudia 12/03/07
      45.   # 37 The Plot thickens 13:26  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      46.   My two cents? 13:27  |  Steve Jacobsson 12/03/07
      47.   # 33 Arab Neighbor 13:32  |  Lynn 12/03/07
      48.   #41, Spoff 13:38  |  JB 12/03/07
      49.   #41, Spoff (2) 13:47  |  JB 12/03/07
      50.   # 40 Chachmeister 13:53  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/07
      51.   Sami 13:59  |  JES 12/03/07
      52.   Heck this is just the tip of the iceberg 14:03  |  Gee 12/03/07
      53.   #42, Swiss (Dino) 14:06  |  JB 12/03/07
      54.   Lynn 43 People don`t like the occupation. Why don`t you get it? 14:08  |  Michael 12/03/07
      55.   Bradley`s fairytales 14:13  |  Tosefta 12/03/07
      56.   FIXATION? 14:25  |  Mario Fiorito 12/03/07
      57.   The indignant villain 14:27  |  Poker 12/03/07
      58.   Shooting the messenger again 14:35  |  Boycott 12/03/07
      59.   If you liked the fate of the GREENHOUSES, you will LOVE the fate 14:40  |  The Equalizer 12/03/07
      60.   #26 Lynn 14:41  |  Boycott 12/03/07
      61.   #36 Clickfool 14:42  |  Sol 12/03/07
      62.   Clickfool #5 14:43  |  Sarah 12/03/07
      63.   Bradly,but you`ve ben supporting the very same Left Isral bashers 14:46  |  Absolute Sweden 12/03/07
      64.   Tzfonit #21 14:47  |  GABE1 12/03/07
      65.   Bradleys Preemptive Imaginations 14:55  |  Ronnie Wolman 12/03/07
      66.   wrong target Sami 14:56  |  A.M. 12/03/07
      67.   Don`t worry 14:58  |  Chris Linthwaite 12/03/07
      68.   #56, Boycott 14:59  |  JB 12/03/07
      69.   Between Olmert and the UN, we are in real trouble! 15:00  |  שילוה 12/03/07
      70.   BOYCOTT they condemn ONLY Israel .Your type of messenger 15:00  |  Peter S.M. 12/03/07
      71.   # 54 JB, the "big child" 15:03  |  Swiss (Dino) 12/03/07
      72.   UN discrimination 15:04  |  Israel Zwick 12/03/07
      73.   farsical UN ruling is racist 15:16  |  William 12/03/07
      74.   indrajaya the world bank says the palestinians 15:17  |  tommy suharto 12/03/07
      75.   Indrajaya#12 15:21  |  Mickey 12/03/07
      76.   Igor - nicely done #44 15:21  |  William 12/03/07
      77.   indrajaya "israel rejecting to compromise her position 15:25  |  tommy suharto 12/03/07
      78.   Michael#55 15:25  |  Mickey 12/03/07
      79.   MICHAEL people do not like occupation?Tibet,Kurdistan,Papua etc. 15:27  |  PETER SM 12/03/07
      80.   Israel Has NO Right To Exist 15:39  |  .H.K 12/03/07
      81.   Oh, common, this won`t work. "Human Righs Concil" is irrelevant. 15:40  |  Shlomo from Tel-Aviv 12/03/07
      82.   THE FIRST TO VOTE FOR IT.... 15:42  |  Ian 12/03/07
      83.   "ALL THE NATIONS" 15:44  |  Shelly Waxman 12/03/07
      84.