Israel dismisses UNHRC Flotilla probe
Press TV – June 3, 2010
Israel has dismissed a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to launch a probe into its deadly attack on an aid convoy, calling the UN body of no moral authority.
“The authority of this council, which once again is working stubbornly against Israel, has reached rock bottom,” AFP quoted said Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ygal Palmor as saying on Thursday.
A six-ship fleet carrying some 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and accompanied by hundreds of international activists, the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla came under Israeli fire while it was in international waters.
Amid mounting international protests against the Israeli attack, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday adopted a resolution which condemned the “outrageous” move and ordered an independent international investigation into the naval strike.
The Israeli foreign ministry, however, criticized the UNHRC’s decision, arguing some of the council’s members states who signed the resolution were in a “bad position to present themselves as defenders of human rights,” accusing them of “massive violation of human rights.”
The Human Rights Council earlier conducted an independent probe into the devastating Gaza offensive Israel launched in late 2008, which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people — mostly civilians — and left thousands more injured.
A final report by the council’s special Gaza war commission, led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, found Israel guilty of war crimes, including deliberate targeting of civilians and using Palestinian civilians and human shields.
Backed by the United States, Israel refused to cooperate with the Goldstone investigation.
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Revisionist History Books Banned by Amazon
By Michael Hoffman • Unz Review • August 25, 2018
On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.
Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).
Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).
These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly “Amazon KDP” discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon’s “content guidelines.” Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone’s guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as “Tech Tyranny.”
There is a nationwide purge underway that amounts to a new McCarthyism — blacklisting and banning politically incorrect speech and history books under the rubric of “hate speech” accusations, initiated in part by two Zionist thought police organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). It’s a flimsy pretext for censoring controversial scholarly books that can’t be refuted.
In addition to our books being hate-free, we note that there are hundreds of hate-filled Zionist and rabbinic books brimming with ferocious bigotry for Palestinians, Germans and goyim in general, which are sold by Amazon. … continue
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It is very obvious that the UN is a tool for america to use against any country it wants. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why there has not been an exitus of nations at least objecting or walking out of such an organization.
Israel has had so many UN motions again it and soooo very more vetoed in the “illustrious” meeting of the six, I mean five nations with veto powers, well any other nation with such a record would be thown out and made to adhere to what is humane and to the international laws.
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The United Nations has vehicles on U.S. soil right now, sitting on an abandoned runway in Jacksonville, FL. right now, and they’re going to be in the U.S.S.A. to put down the coming DOMESTIC INSURRECTION against the U.S. Government.
so, they have a stake in the NWO gig. It’s called; “Barry, we’ll help you fight your pissed off citizenry, but you MUST LET US HAVE OUR SAY OVER YOUR SOVEREIGNTY..”
the U.N. might just as well be called; “ENFORCEMENT OF ROTHSCHILDS ZIONIST WORLDWIDE CONTROL” instead of United Nations. It is anything but United anything, except UNITED COW-TOWING and GENUFLECTION to ZIONIST JEW BANKERS ROTHSCHILDS. That’s all it ever was. It’s run by the CFR and TRILATERAL COMMISSION assholes, and it is a SHADOW GOVERNMENT ENFORCER, solely.
Ban Ke Moon might as well be Sun Myung Moon, for all I care, same difference!!!
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