Make it Stop

Make it stop... cycle of violence....passive words from a passive observer describing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Who could this be? An uninformed product of our public school system? Perhaps a member of the perennially adolescent left?

No one who has observed the UN closely for a number of years should be surprised that it is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

And to question her judgement further, she is meeting with former President and apologist-for-dictators and worse, Jimmy Carter. Perhaps she is lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize of her own, joining such august company as Carter and his terrorist friend, the late and unlamented Yassir Arafat.

Anne Bayefsky, NRO:

On May 12, Arbour issued a stupefying press release. In the context of a message, about the “deteriorating situation in occupied Palestinian territory,” Arbour stressed: “The rising number of lives lost, whether as a result of targeted killings or suicide attacks, home-made missiles or artillery fire, is unacceptable.” The United Nations highest-ranking human-rights officer cannot distinguish between suicide bombing and targeting the would-be bombers or their masters. She cannot discern a difference between the missiles directed at Israeli homes and schools from Gaza, and the artillery fire from Israel directed at the launching pads or the launchers.

In fact, not once in her lengthy remarks did Arbour mention terrorism or self-defense. On the contrary, she explicitly described her goal as “making the parties to the conflict stop this new cycle of violence.”

And in other UN news, in yet another affront to anyone's intelligence, the UN has elected as Vice-Chair to its Disarmament Commission---Iran. Perhaps it is a comfort that the commission has accomplished little since its formation in 1959. Here is the summary of its 2006 work:

The 2006 UN Disarmament Commission (DC) concluded on April 28, 2006, having produced a number of discussion papers but with no consensus on anything but procedural reports. The DC remained saturated with tension between the United States and Iran, and the two engaged in a verbal duel at the final session of the Commission. Working Group I on Nuclear Disarmament forwarded 13 undifferentiated papers to the 2007 session, while Working Group II on Confidence Building Measures also forwarded a paper for possible consideration next year. The Commission was only able to agree on recommendations for improving the effectiveness of its Methods of Work, though reaching that agreement was also fairly contentious.

Make it stop. Toss the UN out of New York. Perhaps they would prefer the lovely venue of Tehran. Latest news here.