Yet Another Blogger Is Like: Why Didn't Anyone Ever Tell Me That The UN Pays Someone To Demonize Israel From a Specifically Palestinian Point of View?
Adloyada has discovered the existence of John Dugard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian territories (aka a UN-employed de jure spokesman for Palestinian terrorists). Adloyada seems to be somewhat less happy with reality than she was before she discovered existence of said UN employee. Welcome to the club Adloyada:
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 technically 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.
Meetings once every two months. And as soon as CafePress stops censoring our designs, we'll have t-shirts too.
On a just slightly more serious (but no less surreal) note: it can't be pointed out enough that the United Nations has a job where someone is literally paid - year to year and decade to decade - to be an international advocate for civilians and armed groups that are explicitly trying to destroy a UN member state. But look for the silver lining: before you knew who John Dugard is supposed to protect / work for, you were confused about how he could possibly come out for the de facto destruction of the Jewish State. Now that confusion - and any resulting anxiety - has presumably been settled. And now everyong can walk away from this post reassured - as is always the case - that United Nations employees are humanitarians of the highest caliber.
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 technically 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.
Meetings once every two months. And as soon as CafePress stops censoring our designs, we'll have t-shirts too.
On a just slightly more serious (but no less surreal) note: it can't be pointed out enough that the United Nations has a job where someone is literally paid - year to year and decade to decade - to be an international advocate for civilians and armed groups that are explicitly trying to destroy a UN member state. But look for the silver lining: before you knew who John Dugard is supposed to protect / work for, you were confused about how he could possibly come out for the de facto destruction of the Jewish State. Now that confusion - and any resulting anxiety - has presumably been settled. And now everyong can walk away from this post reassured - as is always the case - that United Nations employees are humanitarians of the highest caliber.
