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July 2007 Stats for The Big Picture.
UN Watch, an accredited Non-Governmental Organization, has issued a press release detailing the shocking bias that was shown at a meeting of the UN racism panel:
Geneva, August 3, 2006 - UN Watch today condemned the U.N.'s racism panel for suspending its work to hold a special session on "the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon." Not only is the issue completely outside the mandate of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), but its agenda revealed a lopsided approach that pointedly ignored the humanitarian suffering inflicted upon Israeli civilians by more than 2,000 Hezbollah rockets, said the Geneva-based NGO.
CERD is a body of experts mandated to oversee state parties' implementation of the 1965 International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. "In addressing an issue bearing no relation to its mandate, in the service of the political agenda of a few, CERD today has dangerously jeopardized its own credibility, casting a shadow upon the reputation all U.N. expert bodies," said UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer.
"It is obscene that, on the same day that Iranian President Ahmadinejad once again calls for the destruction of Israel, a U.N. body provides him moral support by slamming Israel in such a one-sided fashion." U.N. resolutions against Israel are frequently cited by Tehran to justify its goal of eliminating the Jewish state.
Today's special session in Geneva was the initiative of a few panel members led by Mahmoud Aboul-Nasr, a former Egyptian diplomat and Arab League official. Aboul-Nasr is most famous for his 1998 support of convicted Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, a move that was strongly criticized at the time by his colleague Regis de Gouttes, current Chairmain of the CERD.
...Boyd noted that the session had made no mention of Hezbollah, and criticized expert Lindgren Alves for adopting a "de minimis" interpretation of Security Council resolution 1559, which requires the disarming and dismantling of Hezbollah. Nor, Boyd said, did anyone mention that Hezbollah was launching hundreds of missiles per day at Israeli civilians. As Boyd spoke, said Neuer, who attended the session, Mr. Aboul-Nasr kept laughing in response, "which I found to be a shocking display of disrepect."
"CERD's one-sided session today focused only on the tragic situation in Lebanon, but ignored the devastating humanitarian impact of Hezbollah rockets on Israeli civilians-men, women and children," said Neuer. "An excess of 2,000 rockets have been fired into Israel, a million Israelis are either displaced or living in and out of bomb shelters, and more than 50 have been killed while a further 1,700 were injured or required hospital treatment."
Laughter, at a UN panel, in response to suggestions that UN resolution 1559 to disarm Hezbollah, should be enforced? Laughter, in response to the statement that Hezbollah had launched 2,000 rockets purposely targeted at Israeli civilians? Evidently in Aboul-Nasr's view, the joke is that anyone would think the UN seriously intended to do anything but help those who wish to kill Westerners.
Such behavior at the UN racism panel shows that it is in fact being used as a tool to further the goals of the jihadists.
From Ramirez:
