Acting in the aftermath of the fighting in Gaza, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva voted 24 to 9, with 14 abstentions, to approve a far-ranging inquiry into Israel’s actions, the NY Times reports.
Pakistan’s UN ambassador Khalil Hashmi proposed the panel on behalf of the Organization of Islamic States. The resolution creating it does not mention Hamas or other Palestinian militant groups.
Israel denounced the decision as a one-sided sham. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu criticized it for not acting against Hamas. “Once again, an immoral automatic majority at the council whitewashes a genocidal terrorist organization that deliberately targets Israeli civilians while turning Gaza’s civilians into human shields.” European states, which have backed the creation of a dozen commissions of inquiry in the last five years, voted against it or abstained.
Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, cited the statement of a senior Hamas leader three days before the start of hostilities urging followers “to cut off the heads of Jews with knives.” She said Hamas had fired 4,300 rockets from Palestinian homes, hospitals and schools, indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians. “Each one of these rockets constitutes a war crime.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
HOW IS THIS NEWS ???
why isn’t there an inquiry into the OVER 4,000 ROCKETS that the TERRORISTS – Hamas, Jihad & IRAN – shot into Israel onto Women & Children killing many and injuring thousands?????????????
wrong headline !!!!!!!!!!
should read United ARAB Nations not UN……………….
Naïve Jews still think that the wicked nations are interested in logic, common sense, and fairness.
Much like the thinking of Jews in Pre-WW2 Europe. (“Sure, eventually the civilized Germans, and other nations, will see reason…”)
These kinds of irrational Jew-hatred, spreading indiscriminately, is a super-natural phenomenon. (I heard that quoted from a great Gadol of yesteryear. I can’t remember offhand which one.)
It’s not too difficult to guess the hint that Hashem is sending….
Jews, as a whole, are subject to Hashem’s system of reward and, ch”V its opposite.
Anti-Semitism is indeed supernatural, as it makes no sense for gentiles to hate Jews in various times, places, conditions, etc.
WW II was an extreme example, but Rav Avigdor Miller Zatza”L and others have discussed WW II in the above context and also in the context of Zionist intervention to prevent Jews from being saved since the Zionists prioritized (then and always) Zionism over Jewish lives, as they explicitly stated then.
The Zionists (besides for just their very existence being a disaster for Jews on many levels) have been doing what they can to crank up the level of anti-Semitism (Herzl, himself, said that the Anti-Semites would be the Zionists’ friend), resulting in extraordinary damage to Jews, R”L L”A, like what the Zionists did during WW II.
The UN is only a stick. Hashem wants us to do teshuva and daven to him.