Will The Real Iran Please Stand Up?

Finally some apparent good news out of Iran. In the recent local and municipal elections across Iran, many “moderate conservatives” and “reformists” (remember, this is Iran) won a majority of seats in local councils elections. Many analysts and media outlets have reported that these election results, coupled with recent student protests, is a rebuke to the extreme hard line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad is specifically notorious to this blog’s readership for his pursuit of nuclear weapons, calls for the destruction of Israel and the aggressive denial of the Holocaust.

This blog hopes that the Iranian people will soon tire of Ahmadinejad’s antics and either force him to focus on the local bread and butter issues of the economy, unemployment and crime enforcement or force him out of office. Of course, the Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenehi holds the real power in Iran. But hopefully this new movement in the country will persuade the hardline regime in Iran to soften its stance and understand that anti-Semitic rhetoric and West baiting will not help the country move forward and provide for its people. Another revolution may be in the works . . .

Solid Proof That Hezbollah Uses Civilians as Shields

Hezbollah endangers the civilans of Southern Lebanon, the same people it professes to protect. It does so by operating within civilian centers, hiding weapons caches within towns and allowing its soldiers and terrorists to live in the civilians' houses, farms, mosques. Hezbollah fights under the cover of this civilian population.

We have known this all along. Now we have proof to document this. Thanks to the Wall Street Journal and the American Jewish Congress, we can now access the report just completed by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center which investigated how Hezbollah endangers the Lebanese civilians. This report draws heavily from Hezbollah documents seized by Israeli soldiers during this summer's war as well as videotaped interviews of captured Hezbollah soldiers.

The videos are shown in three parts. Click below to view them online:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

The report can be viewed at the AJC website.

It is this type of hypocrisy that perpetuates the Hezbollah terror and unjustifiably rallies the world against Israel.

UN Human Rights Council - Same Old Anti Israel Bias

Created in March 2006 to replace the now the defunct Human Rights Commission, the UN Human Rights Council's stated purposes is to address human rights violations. The name this council has co-opted would sure seem to carry with it a worthy cause.

Unfortunately, as with many UN initiatives, the member states of this body have focused all their efforts on condemning one nation: Israel. Just today, the council came after Israel for the seventh time - seven times in 9 months.

The council has ignored the atrocities in Darfur, and all the other violations of human rights which occur daily in Cuba, China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, . . .

Even Kofi Anna has criticized the council for only focusing on Israel.

It's dificult to appreciate the UN's work when it is held hostage by rouge states who want to hide their own abuses by having the world focus on what Israel has or had not done.