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 | Secularists, jibadis blast Israel Our Correspondent Israel is fighting a war not only against the brutal jihadi outfit, Hezbullah, but an array of forces that are viscerally against it—from bigoted Islamists to chic multiculturalists, from anti-Semite commentators to Muslim appeasers, from our desi secularists to rabid communists. We begin with the United Nations: ostensibly an objective international referee, but in actual terms a provider of support to the Hezbollah by constantly berating the Jewish state for effectively defending itself. Last week, four UN observers in Beirut died in Israeli fire by accident. Without going into details, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called it an “apparently deliberate” attempt by Israel to hurt the world body. The UN has long been crusading against Israel. Long back in June 2004, Anne Bayefsky, adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School, said, “The United Nations has become the leading global purveyor of anti-Semitism, intolerance, and inequality against the Jewish people and its state.” She was not addressing a crowd of rabbis in Jerusalem; she was speaking at a conference on anti-Semitism at the UN! In an excellent piece of oratory, she said What does discrimination against the Jewish state mean? It means refusing to admit only Israel to the vital negotiating sessions of regional groups held daily during U.N. Commission on Human Rights meetings. It means devoting six of the 10 emergency sessions ever held by the General Assembly to Israel. It means transforming the 10th emergency session into a permanent tribunal—which has now been reconvened 12 times since 1997. By contrast, no emergency session was ever held on the Rwandan genocide, estimated to have killed a million people, or the ethnic cleansing of tens of thousands in the former Yugoslavia, or the death of millions over the past two decades of atrocities in Sudan. That's discrimination. The record of the Secretariat is more of the same. In November 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a report on Israel's security fence, detailing the purported harm to Palestinians without describing one terrorist act against Israelis which preceded the fence's construction. Recently, the secretary-general strongly condemned Israel for destroying homes in southern Gaza without mentioning the arms-smuggling tunnels operating beneath them. When Israel successfully targeted Hamas terrorist Abdel Aziz Rantissi with no civilian casualties, the secretary-general denounced Israel for an "extrajudicial" killing. But when faced with the 2004 report of the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions detailing the murder of more than 3,000 Brazilian civilians shot at close range by police, Mr. Annan chose silence. That's discrimination. At the U.N., the language of human rights is hijacked not only to discriminate but to demonize the Jewish target. More than one quarter of the resolutions condemning a state's human rights violations adopted by the commission over 40 years have been directed at Israel. But there has never been a single resolution about the decades-long repression of the civil and political rights of 1.3 billion people in China, or the million female migrant workers in Saudi Arabia kept as virtual slaves, or the virulent racism which has brought 600,000 people to the brink of starvation in Zimbabwe. Every year, U.N. bodies are required to produce at least 25 reports on alleged human rights violations by Israel, but not one on an Iranian criminal justice system which mandates punishments like crucifixion, stoning and cross-amputation of right hand and left foot. This is not legitimate critique of states with equal or worse human rights records. It is demonization of the Jewish state. As Israelis are demonized at the UN, so Palestinians and their cause are deified. Every year the U.N. marks Nov. 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People—the day the UN partitioned the British Palestine mandate and which Arabs often style as the onset of al nakba or the "catastrophe" of the creation of the state of Israel. In 2002, the anniversary of the vote that survivors of the concentration camps celebrated, was described by Secretary-General Annan as "a day of mourning and a day of grief." In 2003 the representatives of over 100 member states stood along with the secretary-general, before a map predating the state of Israel, for a moment of silence "for all those who had given their lives for the Palestinian people"—which would include suicide bombers. Similarly, U.N. rapporteur John Dugard has described Palestinian terrorists as "tough" and their efforts as characterized by "determination, daring, and success." A commission resolution for the past three years has legitimized the Palestinian use of "all available means including armed struggle"—an absolution for terrorist methods which would never be applied to the self-determination claims of Chechens or Basques. In last two years, the UN’s anti-Israel psychosis has only increased in intensity, as evident from Annan’s statement last week. Thanks to the shrill anti-Israel lobby all over the world and an anti-Israel bureaucracy within the UN Security Council on Monday unanimously deplored Israel's attack on Qana village in Lebanon, which killed 59 people, including 37 children. Fortunately, the United States blocked attempts to call for an immediate ceasefire, which is what the Hezbollah wants and Annan and his cronies would like to enforce. Apart from Annan, there is a growing tribe of Muslim appeasers in the West. For instance, Jack Straw, Leader of the British House of Commons, is leading a growing Cabinet revolt against Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East policy. Straw, a former foreign minister under Blair, believes that allowing Israel to continue its assault risks destabilising Lebanese government and fuelling further terrorism in the Middle East. In a statement to the Muslim community leaders in his Blackburn constituency, where there is a sizeable population of Muslim voters, Straw voiced concerns of several Cabinet colleagues, saying “disproportionate action only escalates an already dangerous situation.” Needless to say, India has been quick to join the anti-Israel cacophony. On Sunday, it condemned as "outrageous" Israel's air strikes on Lebanon. "India strongly condemns the continued irresponsible and indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon by the Israeli military, ignoring calls for restraint," an official spokesman said in a statement. The worst part of the statement was that in it there was no mention of the acts of violence Israel has been subjected by Lebanon-supported Hezbollah. On Sunday, all secular parties vied with each other in denouncing Israel. We salute the courage, fortitude, and moral strength of the government and people of Israel who are fighting their war against a coalition of murderous mullahs, guilt-ridden multicultarlists, and Left-leaning opinion-makers. Posted on : 8/1/2006 Mail this article to your friend |