Hey UN, Shove It
It's great when the UN self-righteously preaches to Israel:
John Dugard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the territories, told the Knesset Law Committee that the army has destroyed 4,170 Palestinian homes since September 2000...
Dugard focused on the army's demolition of houses carried out on grounds of alleged "military necessity." He said these demolitions constituted 85 percent of all Palestinian house demolitions, and violated the Fourth Geneva Convention, because the homes had not been destroyed during combat.
Israel often points out that delicate, cocktail party attending UN dilettantes who snidely talk about "Apartheid Walls" have no business making one-sided military pronouncements. For some reason, there's always an unending supply of over-refined of "humanitarians" ready to carp at Israel.
Dugard usually superciliously skirts criticisms like this by noting that it's beyond his mandate to criticize Palestinians - he is techincally the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, so his job is limited entirely to criticizing Israel for self-defense. His defense of his biased, one-sided criticism of Israel is that the United Nations pays him to be biased and one-sided. Great.
John Dugard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the territories, told the Knesset Law Committee that the army has destroyed 4,170 Palestinian homes since September 2000...
Dugard focused on the army's demolition of houses carried out on grounds of alleged "military necessity." He said these demolitions constituted 85 percent of all Palestinian house demolitions, and violated the Fourth Geneva Convention, because the homes had not been destroyed during combat.
Israel often points out that delicate, cocktail party attending UN dilettantes who snidely talk about "Apartheid Walls" have no business making one-sided military pronouncements. For some reason, there's always an unending supply of over-refined of "humanitarians" ready to carp at Israel.
Dugard usually superciliously skirts criticisms like this by noting that it's beyond his mandate to criticize Palestinians - he is techincally the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, so his job is limited entirely to criticizing Israel for self-defense. His defense of his biased, one-sided criticism of Israel is that the United Nations pays him to be biased and one-sided. Great.
