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Last update - 23:35 05/07/2006
UN expert says U.S., EU, others ignoring rights abuses by Israel
By The Associated Press
GENEVA - A UN human rights expert on Wednesday criticized the United States,
European Union, Russia and the United Nations for ignoring countless Israeli
violations of human rights, international law and other standards.
John Dugard, a South African lawyer responsible for investigating alleged
human rights abuses by Israel in Palestinian areas, said the United States
and other international powers who make up the so-called Quartet of Mideast
mediators have done nothing to rein in Israel.
"Israel's conduct is morally indefensible," Dugard told an emergency session
of the UN Human Rights Council. "I am concerned with the law, and here it is
clear that Israel is in violation of the most fundamental norms of
humanitarian law and human rights law."
Dugard said he had "every sympathy" with Israel Defense Forces Corporal
Gilad Shalit, whose kidnapping by Palestinian militants in Gaza sparked the
latest IDF reprisals, but he said Israel's response has only increased its
violations of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of occupied people.
Dugard was the keynote speaker at the first emergency session of the new UN
Human Rights Council, called at the request Friday of Arab countries, who
are seeking a resolution that would censure Israel for its behavior.
Israel's ambassador to the UN's European headquarters in Geneva called the
session "a planned and premeditated" attack on his country, and said it
continued the anti-Israel bias set by the discredited UN Human Rights
Commission, which was phased out this year.
Dugard, an anti-apartheid civil rights lawyer in the 1980s, was appointed by
the dissolved commission in 2001 to investigate only violations by the
Israeli side, prompting Israel and others to dismiss his reports as
one-sided.
"We find ourselves in an absurd situation in which the Human Rights Council,
convened into urgent session, ignores the rights of one side and holds a
special meeting to defend the rights of the other side," Ambassador Itzhak
Levanon told the 47-member body.
Levanon also defended Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip, which followed
the kidnapping of the IDF soldier in a cross-border raid on May 28.
"It was triggered by the attack on our sovereign territory by Palestinian
terrorist groups with the aim of sewing death," he said. "These terrorists
dug a tunnel under the benevolent eye of the Palestinian authorities to
achieve their goal."
Dugard said Israel's response, which has included the detention of
Palestinian Cabinet ministers and other Hamas officials, broke the
prohibition on collective punishment and on "measures of intimidation and
terrorism" in the Fourth Geneva Convention, limiting the conduct of an
occupying power.
The arrest of Hamas Cabinet ministers and legislators "seems to constitute
the taking of hostages," also prohibited by the convention, he added.
"In the past week the situation has worsened," Dugard said. "In Gaza people
are without water, food is scarce, medicines are running out, 200,000
households are without electricity due to the destruction of power plants,"
Dugard said.
"Over 1,500 rounds of artillery have been showered on Gaza," he said. "Sonic
booms terrorize the people. Transport has been seriously disrupted by the
destruction of roads and bridges. Sanitation is threatened."
On Sunday, Israel reopened a major crossing point into Gaza to allow basic
food products and humanitarian supplies to reach the coastal strip. But it
closed the crossing a day later, citing a security threat.
The United States and the EU urged Israel to exercise restraint, but they
said the Palestinians also had to act for peace and release Shalit.
"We call on the Palestinian leadership to bring an end to violence and
terrorist activities, including the firing of rockets on Israeli territory,"
said Finnish Ambassador Vesa Himanen, speaking for the EU.
U.S. Ambassador Warren W. Tichenor added: "Hamas cannot claim to govern
responsibly while simultaneously calling for the destruction of Israel,
sending in militants to carry out terrorist attacks and firing Qassam
rockets into Israel from Gaza."

 of the UN Human Rights Council. 
Beh, nemmeno dei candidi fiorellini
Human Rights Council is flawed
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=34669
by Benny Avni, NY Sun
The Turtle Bay debate earlier this year on how to fix the much-discredited 
Commission on Human Rights concentrated on how to prevent flagrant rights 
violators from gaining membership in the new council. But membership was only 
one aspect of the failures. As it passed the usual litany of automatically 
accepted anti-Israel resolutions during its final session earlier this year, the 
council was unable to coalesce on even one resolution regarding the Darfur genocide.
“No country can claim to have a perfect human rights record,” Secretary-General 
Annan told me during a press conference last week. He said he hopes the new 
council will avoid focusing on Israel and “not on others.”
[...]
As the only U.N. member state barred from participation in any Geneva 
deliberations, Israel is by definition less than equal when it comes to setting 
the agenda of the Human Rights Council.

dismiss his reports as one-sided.
Ri-quoto :)
-Stefano

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