UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
What a splendidly officious title. Who could possibly argue about the need to ensure that human rights remain on the agenda, everywhere, anywhere, that we all be alerted to egregious instances of abuses. Thank heavens Louise Arbour is on the scene - now we will begin to see the light of reason prevail. We will see the malefactors brought to justice, we will see the victims of human rights abuses cradled in the gentle embrace of their defenders.The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has brought her fact-finding delegation to Gaza, to view for themselves the straitened circumstances in which Palestinians live under their oppressor. From interviews with the bereaved she can hear how the IDF deliberately murders and maims without just cause, without reason, against all humane impulses so abundantly found amongst the Palestinian population of "insurgents" terrorists by any other name.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has also scheduled a tour of Israel in her fact-finding mission. Will she commisserate with those bereaved who have Jewish names as well, and tell them as she has done the Palestinians in Beit Haroun that she is there to assure them that the world has not forgotten them? Most certainly that will be on her agenda. As will also be the imperative to scold Palestinian terrorists among the civilians for deliberately exposing the innocent to danger.
I'm anxious to read all about it. Particularly having missed all the news coverage of her otherwise well-publicized fact-finding trips to the Darfur region of Sudan, where she similarly reassured the millions of displaced black Muslim Sudanese, where she expressed her sincere regret and outrage against the murdering Janjaweed and government Sudanese forces on behalf of the tens of thousands of dead women, children and elderly from Darfur.
Nineteen civilian Palestinians were killed by an inadvertent IDF strike meant to destabilize the deliberate and ongoing rocket attacks from the town of Beit Hanoun and its sister towns, against Israeli villages and towns and kibbutzim. Any deaths of non-combatants are tragedies, but one must also muse upon the compliance of a civilian population which understands that its "heroes" attack other civilians and with no compunction whatever when Israeli civilians are killed or wounded, children terrified on a daily basis.
The children of Sderot are now testifying before a public commission in Israel, describing their daily fears and the terror they experience at the ongoing assaults from Gaza on their community. Louise Arbour, don't, whatever you do, forget to speak with these children.
posted by Pieface @ Monday, November 20, 2006
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