Topic: Hot mic catches UN interpreter saying anti-Israel votes are ‘a bit much’

[oldcoastie6468]

Hot mic catches UN interpreter saying anti-Israel votes are ‘a bit much’
NOVEMBER 14, 2013, 9:32 PM 163 Share 2967 

Hillel Neuer
Hillel Neuer is executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

The truth comes out when we think no one else is listening.

On Thursday a United Nations interpreter, unaware that her microphone was on, uttered words of truth in reaction to the General Assembly’s adoption of nine politically-motivated resolutions condemning Israel, and zero resolutions on the rest of the world.

Under the mistaken impression that she was speaking only to colleagues, the interpreter uttered the following words into the headphones of every UN delegate, and before a live webcast audience worldwide:

“I think when you have… like a total of ten resolutions on Israel and Palestine, there’s gotta be something, c’est un peu trop, non? [It’s a bit much, no?] I mean I know… There’s other really bad sh*t happening, but no one says anything about the other stuff.”

Laughter erupted among the delegates. “The interpreter apologizes,” said the unfortunate truth-teller, moments later, followed by her audible gasp. I sincerely hope she won’t get fired.

Because the one who should really apologize today is the UN. Founded on noble ideals, the world body is turning the dream of liberal internationalists into a nightmare.

For by the end of its annual legislative session next month, the General Assembly will have adopted a total of 22 resolutions condemning Israel—and only four on the rest of the world combined. The hypocrisy, selectivity, and politicization are staggering.

Today’s nine resolutions, adopted by the GA’s 4th committee, which is comprised of all 193 UN member states, condemned Israel for violating the human rights of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, of Palestinian refugees, and even of Syrians in the Golan Heights.

That’s right: the UN adopted a resolution today that mentions the word “Syria” no less than 10 times—yet said nothing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s massacre of more than 100,000 of his own people.

Entitled “Occupied Syrian Golan,” the resolution condemned Israel for allegedly mistreating Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights. Israel was also condemned for violating the rights of Syrian citizens under international humanitarian law. The UN found no time today, however, to comment on the international legality of President Assad gassing his own citizens to death.

As it will soon do again by a second, redundant resolution on the Golan, the General Assembly today called on Israel to hand over the Golan Heights, and its citizens, to Syria.

Now, whatever one’s view on who rightfully owns the Golan, for the UN at this particular moment to call for anyone to be handed over to Assad’s rule—even as his massacres continue unabated—is both logically absurd and morally obscene. With Israeli hospitals now treating dozens of Syrians who escaped their country’s bloodbath, the resolution is simply surreal.

It is well and good to hold Israel to account for its treatment of Arab and other minorities, just like every other nation.

Yet something is wrong when not a single word in today’s Palestinian-themed resolutions mentioned the genocidal anti-Semitism expressed regularly by Hamas organs in Gaza, or the dangerous incitement by the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, whose official schools, mosques, newspapers, and TV stations continue to glorify the murderers of Israeli civilians as heroes worthy of emulation.

Word is father to deed. Yet none of today’s UN resolutions concerning the West Bank mentioned the outburst of Palestinian terrorist attacks over recent weeks, such as the brutal murder of Shraya Ofer outside his Jordan Valley home, as his wife managed to escape. The murder of Ofer by axes and iron bars was “a gift to the Palestinian people and Hamas prisoners, in honor of Eid al-Adha,” the two suspects said under questioning.

NINE anti-Israel resolutions are "a bit much"??

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/un-anti-israel-votes-are-indeed-a-little-weird/

[AlanS]

They're just showing their irrelevance.

[RickZ]

The League of Nations showed what a toothless paper tiger it was when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931.

The UN showed itself to be a toothless paper tiger after Korea.  The only reason the UN has lasted this long has been the involvement of the US.

[Pandora]

I wish they were irrelevant, but some of the worst ideas on earth come out of that body and are championed by the scrunts in this country.

[Libertas]

1.  Eviction Notice to the UN to vacate UN Headqaurters and related buildings in the Turtle Bay area of Manhattan, as well as any other property on US soil.
2.  Demolition of all buildings.
3.  Remodelling of property into something usefull, like parks, shooting ranges, etc etc.

[oldcoastie6468]

1.  Eviction Notice to the UN to vacate UN Headqaurters and related buildings in the Turtle Bay area of Manhattan, as well as any other property on US soil.
2.  Demolition of all buildings.
3.  Remodelling of property into something usefull, like parks, shooting ranges, etc etc./quote]

4. Collect all the fines for illegal parking.

[Libertas]

1.  Eviction Notice to the UN to vacate UN Headqaurters and related buildings in the Turtle Bay area of Manhattan, as well as any other property on US soil.
2.  Demolition of all buildings.
3.  Remodelling of property into something usefull, like parks, shooting ranges, etc etc./quote]

4. Collect all the fines for illegal parking.

Confiscate anything they leave behind, apply auction proceeds to a statue at the site of the former UN HQ in Manhattan of angry American patriots driving the anti-American filth from their shores!

FIFY!