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.