I CAN’T COMPREHEND THIS…
March 20th, 2007
I understand that there are plenty of members of the United Nations that don’t like Israel. I understand that there are nations that will take any opportunity to show Israel in any bad light they can grab hold of. But I just cannot understand how it is possible to anything this blatant, this in your face, to have happened.
(Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.)
Last Friday, the UN surpassed itself as it finished its annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women by singling out Israel and only Israel (which actually has a very good record on women”s rights) as being the only state “found in violation of women”s rights.”
The hundreds of thousands of women who have been killed, raped, mutilated and displaced in Sudan, the women whipped in Saudi Arabia, hanged for “adultery” in Iran, forced to abort in China, murdered in honor killings in Holland, England and elsewhere, all these were ignored by the UN as it attacked only Israel.
The vote against Israel was 40 for and 2 against, with only the United States and Canada voting against. Amazingly (or perhaps not) Germany, on behalf of the European Union, voted against Israel.
This is so horrendous that you want to believe it’s a typo; that the list was truncated by a computer; that a dog ate it; anything.
The National Review has this to say:
The same week the commission focused specifically only on the state of Israel, 33 Muslim women engaging in peaceful protest outside a courthouse in Tehran were abruptly arrested on charges of “endangering national security.”
Their goal? To put an end to polygamy and to child-custody laws that strip mothers in Iran of the right to raise and protect their own children.
On March 8 – International Women”s Day – 700 women”s-rights activists again gathered in front of the parliament building in Tehran, demanding fair trials for the women jailed a few days earlier. Iranian security forces and ranks of baton-wielding police once more descended on the women, driving them back with physical force, verbal obscenities, and threats of more to come.
In Saudi Arabia, during the first week of March, a 19-year-old girl who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped, and then beaten by her brother for having “allowed” herself to become the victim of a rape has been sentenced to 90 lashes.
Her crime? Meeting a young man who was not a family member. Indeed, one of her judges told this young woman she was lucky to have not gotten jail time.
But at the U.N., the Women”s Rights Commission adopted only one country-specific resolution on “Palestinian women.” Apparently, the members had missed the headlines about the arrests in Tehran and the teenager in Riyadh, emblematic of legal systems built on gross and systematic discrimination against women.
They also failed to notice the millions of vulnerable women and girls raped, displaced, dead or dying in Sudan, the millions of women forcibly aborted in China, and the thousands murdered or forced to commit suicide for the crime of “dishonoring” their fathers and brothers across the Arab and Muslim world.
Women around the World should rise up and toss all the pitiful wastes of human genome masquerading as men out of the United Nations.
i did a little research…the un did as they did for the israelis treatment of palestianian adn bedoin women…though jeff, i have to say i am in agreement…certainly stoning, whipping and raping women is just as bad or worse….i cant answer for sure as it doesnt really cite any specifics on hoe israel is violating the rights of palestinian women, just that they are- beyond the terrorism israeli women and girls are exposed too…of course, in israel, the women are not only free but EXPECTED to protect their country along with the men…and that is equality, not a violation of civil rights
Shalom Molly,
That’s true. You’re absolutely right.
B’shalom,
Jeff