Waiting For The Other Shoe....
There seems to be no end to the degrading spectacle of incompetence and warped tragedy in the horribly dysfunctional manner in which bodies of the United Nations stumble their way into infamy. There is no balance, no honour, no conscience in evidence in that body whose purpose it is to find balance, honour, justice and equality among its member states.Encouraging co-operation and a willingness to amend injustices from among its membership.
It's the misfortune of the world that at the present time - and perhaps, who knows, for the foreseeable future - the United Nations' member-nations appear to be divided into two major camps; the relative handful of civil democracies and the larger majorities comprising dictatorships, tyrannies, monarchies, oligarchies, autocracies and pseudo (perhaps nascent) democracies.
There is sufficient drive and assemblage of supportive numbers among those countries whose human-rights traditions and abuse of authority might cause them grief if pushed, to mount their own concerted accusations against one tiny country in the aggregate of represented nations within the United Nations.
And the pity of it is that those other countries, representative democracies like the State of Israel, cannot find it in themselves to support her, and deny her detractors their vile celebrations of humiliating and wildly unjust denunciations.
Countries that should vote in support of Israel find it expedient to abstain rather than risk the wrath of the majority.
When the UN's World Conference Against Racism was held in Durban, South Africa in 2001 it was effectively high-jacked and used as an instrument to turn all eyes and accusations against one country; Israel. Instead of addressing the scourge of global racism, religious intolerance and discrimination, fanatics were given free reign to express their hatred of Israel and of Jews (Zionists all!).
Resolutions were brought forward, fashioned by Libya, Sudan, Iran, North Korea among others that slammed the West for its colonialist past, completely ignoring the rampant human rights abuses that are common everyday occurrences in Libya, Sudan, Iran, North Korea. And they did this with complete impunity. Horrible caricatures of Nazi-inspired-propaganda against Jews were common fare.
Two countries only, Australia and Canada condemned the conference, while the United States and Israel walked away from it. And now Durban II is in process, and despite the promises of Ban Ki-Moon and the United Nations, it is shaping up as a reprise of its earlier grim presentation of lunatic counter-spin. And it is doing so with complete confidence.
In a background of renewed global anti-Semitism, where attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions are rife throughout Europe, North America and the Middle East. Assaults and attacks on synagogues and community centres have taken place in London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Caracas and Melbourne. Attacks in Ukraine, Poland, Russia and elsewhere are less surprising, but add to the universal fear of Jewish security.
Durban II's preparatory committee is comprised of those paragons of human virtue and human-rights defenders; Libya, Pakistan and Iran. Iran with the help of Syria has manoeuvered a "unanimity rule" into effect enabling conference delegates to ventilate their denunciations and aggrievements and historical revisionist denials of the Holocaust. The Arab-Muslim agenda is stoutly supported by the African Bloc.
Canada stands singly as the country with the courage and commitment to remove herself from this vicious farce perpetrated on the world stage. Viva Canada!
Labels: Canada, Conflict, Societal Failures, United Nations
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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