yet another blog

Amanecer :: US double standards and hypocrisy in the United Nations

Israel´s war crimes are the result of the hypocrisy of the international community and the total alignment of the US government with the Zionist state. This US policy grants the Israelis permission to kill Palestinian people and destroy its legitimate rights by means of an oppressive economic and military siege. Whenever Israel commits a massacre, the US typical and cynical response is that Israel has the right “to defend itself”. Thus, Washington throws the blame on victims, that is, the Palestinians. Actually, it is the Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves as their struggle is a legitimate reaction to the illegal Israeli occupation.

Read the full article…

Independent Online Edition

The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.

more…

US assails UN rights forum probe into Israeli Gaza attack
AFP via Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States denounced the UN Human Rights Council for holding a special session on the recent Israeli shelling of homes in the Gaza strip that left 18 Palestinians dead.

Meeting in Geneva, the council voted to send an urgent fact-finding mission to the site of the attack in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun.

State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey complained that Wednesday’s session was the third time in less than six months that the UN rights body convened a session addressing only Israel and advancing “an imbalanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

more…

This comes only days after the following…

US vetoes UN draft condemning Israel’s Gaza onslaught
AFP via Yahoo! News
by Gerard Aziakou Sat Nov 11, 5:58 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United States vetoed an Arab-sponsored draft resolution in the UN Security Council that would have condemned Israel’s deadly attack in the Gaza Strip, calling the text “unbalanced” and “biased.”

“The draft doesn’t display an even-handed characterization of the recent events in Gaza,” US Ambassador John Bolton said, referring to what Israel said was an accidental shelling that killed 19 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, in the the Gaza town of Beit Hanun.

“We are disturbed at the language of the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated,” he added. “Such language does not further the cause of peace and its unacceptability to the United States in previous resolutions is well known.”

As one of the council’s five permanent members along with Britain, China, France and Russia, the United States has veto power which it has now used 82 times, often to shield Israel from censure.

Its previous use of the veto was in July to block a Qatari-sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza as “disproportionate force” and would have demanded a halt to Israeli operations in the territory.

more…