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UN publishes report accusing Israel of absuing 'Palestinian' children

The United Nations accused Israel of violating the human rights of 'Palestinian' children in Gaza and the West Bank, and contended that the Jewish State was not acting to prevent settler violence against Palestinians.

“Prolonged occupation deforms the development of children through pervasive deprivations affecting health, education, and overall security,” said a United Nations official.

“The insecurity of Palestinian children is aggravated in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem by settler violence and night time raids and detentions by Israeli occupation forces, house demolitions, threatened expulsions, and a host of other practices,” he added.

The official stated that the number of Palestinian children arrested has risen in the past four years and that there has been a 50 percent increase in settler violence this year.

“The failure to prevent and punish settler violence remains a serious and ongoing violation of Israel’s fundamental legal obligation to protect the civilian population,” he said.

The UN official also decried Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, urging the international community to “urgently allow entry to Gaza of material needed for repair of water and electricity infrastructure” to avoid deterioration of the health of civilians, particularly children who are in a critical condition.

Israel Radio spent most of its 7:00 - 8:00 am hour and much of its 8:00 - 9:00 am hour on this report. The Jerusalem Post also wrote about it and I will take you to that link shortly.

So what haven't I told you? I haven't told you the same thing that Israel Radio didn't tell you other than to mention the UN official's name, and the same thing that took the Jerusalem Post until the seventh paragraph of a nine-paragraph story to mention - and even then they only mentioned a small part of it. Here's what JPost had to say about the report's author.

[Richard] Falk faced calls that he resign in July after he posted on his personal blog a cartoon of a dog with a kippah urinating on a statue of Lady Justice, and alleged that arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against Muammar Gaddafi were politically motivated.

US envoy to the UN, Joseph M. Torsella, called on Falk to resign as did Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. The Anti-Defamation League and B’nai B’rith also weighed in, calling on Falk to step down.

Falk said that posting the cartoon “was a mistake and I regret it,” but said that he would not resign.

But there's so much more that they didn't tell you about Richard Falk. At first, he denied posting that cartoon. He's a 9/11 truther (and been condemned for it by Ban Ki-Moon). He's been barred from entering Israel, which he has compared to Nazis. He doesn't work for the United Nations, but for its 'Human Rights Council' - a body whose vehement obsession with Israel is well documented.

Did anyone really expect this guy to produce a report that doesn't condemn Israel?

In fact, the real question here is why - if they were going to insist on covering it - Israel Radio's Reshet Bet (a government-owned station) and the Jerusalem Post gave the report any credibility at all? You could have listened to Israel Radio for most of Friday's morning drive time broadcast and thought that the UN was condemning us for doing horrible things - and that maybe even they had a point. But no, they didn't. Falk has no credibility whatsoever. And neither do Reshet Bet or the Jerusalem Post - at least on this one.

Labels: Israel Radio, Jerusalem Post, Richard Falk, United Nations Human Rights Council

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:37 AM