Israel has severed working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council and barred it from entry into Israel or the West Bank after it announced a plan to investigate Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
Cutting ties and barring entry to the Human Rights Council is a revealing confession by the Israeli government that its policy of settlement expansion in Palestinian territory indeed violates human rights. Otherwise, the council would surely be welcomed to investigate.
About 500,000 Israeli Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the start of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. Settlements and the related destruction of Palestinian homes is widely recognized as illegal under international law.
The council said the fact-finding mission, overwhelmingly approved last week, would “investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.”
The United Nations recently called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank. Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011,forcibly displacing over 1,100 people, over half of them children.
A recent report from the European Union warned that “if current trends are not stopped and reversed, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state within pre-1967 borders seem more remote than ever.” And that seems to be the intention.
The EU report explained how “a combination of house and farm building demolitions; a prohibitive planning regime; relentless settlement expansion; the military’s separation barrier; obstacles to free movement; and denial of access to vital natural resources, including land and water, is eroding Palestinian tenure of the large tract of the West Bank on which hopes of a contiguous Palestinian state depend.”
Where there's smoke there's fire.
Hahaha…"Israel Cuts Ties With UN Human Rights Council"
The Israelis are very funny. They would actually have been kicked out of the UN a long time, if it were not for a fawning nation that repeatedly bailed them out.
if they ever had a relation with UN to start with, I mean beside being at UN and not willing to cooperate with what UN is about or UN human right is about or human rights in general terms means and follow the rules and regulation regarding Palestinians . Or for that matter peace activist not killing them with bulldozer and other method.
Israel and its leaders should be charged with Genocide. The settlements clearly fall within the definitions of Genocide in the treaty that all UN members, including Israel, are bound by.
Sounds like its time for the UN to send troops to protect Palestine from Israel. Imagine what an embarrassment THAT would be for Tel Aviv.
You cannot embaress war criminals.
The Palestinians have been begging for UN peacekeepers for years. Of course, the US has vetoed it every time.
That would be awesome! The U.S. won't let that happen though.
Israel government has been embarrassed for years by the people of the world, is just that they don't care about the people period. Israel rather to have a war with UN forces then letting them to come in to protecting people of Palestine. the only language that Israeli government would understand is for the world boycotting Israel, is for American and European people to stop buying Israeli goods, although they supply European market with fake made in …… country, like they do in Sweden, and entire scandinavian countries, but it is up to people and their government to stop buying things that are made in Israel and giving Israel free money by the Germans, the EU and USA, like what happened to $53billion dollars of Libyan money while in hand of US and among others Goldman Sachs. Israel is the most country with documented war crime and act against humanity in the world, there is no way for such regime to be embarrassed.
"Human rights council"all of israel war criminal terrorist leaders should be serving life sentences for what they have done and continue to do to the palestinians with america blessing.Then we have that puppet at the UN of which I refuse to name brownnosing to the yankees.
Lois on Family Guy….Israel the new country everyone is going to love…….tehehehehe
The 67 borders really refers to the 1949 armistace line. Maybe if the Arabs didn't wage aggressive wars they'd still have the "West Bank."
Just wait, the US State Dept. is going to classify the UN Human Rights Commission as a terrorist organization
Why would Israel have any ties to a human rights council?
Human nature — What will protect Israel from it?
Man by nature is a take all you can take animal, and unless crime prevention is backed up by deadly force, virtually all humans will strive to enrich themselves upon the misery of those less educated.
Comes now Israel to be plagued by a reverse state of affairs, for more is the reward for those who steal land then for those who oppose it, and motivation for doing harm greatly outweighs the gain one receives for keeping the peace.
Talk about a conspiracy theory, one created most perfect by our ignoble rich nobility.
One must hope that the boycott divestment sanctions begin to be enforced. Israel has been a terrorist state since it began. The world must be ruthless, and treat Israel for what has always been..
Hahaha…"Israel Cuts Ties With UN Human Rights Council"
The Israelis are very funny. They would actually have been kicked out of the UN a long time, if it were not for a fawning nation that repeatedly bailed them out.
isreal is a racist apartheid state with it core national ideology cpied verbatim from the third reich. THis has been apparent to me since the 90's. The sooner the american people learn what kind of monster israel really is, the sooner we can diffuse all the violence in the middle east, part of which, we are responsible for of course through our complete political surrender to israels will
Common defense from Israel, "You are all just Anit- Semitic Goyim" Go away!
Why would the U.S. Congress tax its citizens to contribute tax dollars so that Israel continues to build these settlements? Could there be some money being laundered which contributes to the campaigns of those serving in the U.S. Congress? The U.S. would be attacking Iran if it were expanding into captured territory and building settlements. It is the U.S. hypocrisy in dealing with Israel versus other Middle Eastern countries that brings hatred and terrorism to the United States.
I had the pleasure of kicking out four israeli citizens from a store I worked. I refused to take their credit card and told them to leave and made it very clear that I do not support their apartheid borderless sand box. Everyone with any conscience should do the same. These are evil arrogant people and should be treated as such.
Love this anti-Israeli orgy you're having here… The truth is that without the settlements the unemployment rate in the west bank would be 60%. Most Palestinians prefers to live under occupation, and this is first hand information. A recent survey in the university of Ramallah showed that 62.4% of the Palestinians prefer "not to be under Arab government"
Israeli aggression has been insufferable since 1967 and nothing has been done to punish them. We Americans should be ASHAMED OF OURSELVES. I AM ASHAMED of our support for Israeli oppression of Palestinians. I have been ashamed for a long, long time. But there seems to be nothing the majority of American citizens can do to help, because we, too, are being oppressed by Israli/American governments. My heart aches every day for the plunder upon our lives and our souls.