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Resources updated between Monday, June 25, 2012 and Sunday, July 1, 2012
June 29, 2012
Islamic states legitimize terrorism - distinguish between terrorism & "resistance" [aka murder] against Israelis
Saving Syria from Kofi Annan Article
June 28, 2012
Statement by the United States on Bahrain Development
The Obama Retreat Article
June 27, 2012
Islamic states object to report on gender-related killings of women
Statement by the OIC at the UN Human Rights Council during discussion on Violence against Women Development
Egypt needs evidence that gender-related killings are discrimination against women; rejects LGBT rights
Statement by Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council during discussion on Violence against Women Development
June 26, 2012
Who's afraid of Belarus? UN 'Human Rights' Council can't announce Belarus meeting but has no problem with advertising pro-Hamas meet
HRC Bulletin of informal meetings - June 26, 2012 Development
Monday, June 25, 2012
Anne Bayefsky
This article originally appeared in the The Jerusalem Post.
The Obama administration's political and financial backing of the UN Human Rights Council resulted in another win for Hamas on Friday, June 22 in Geneva. A Hamas-affiliated organization and its supporters held an "informal parallel meeting" promoting the destruction of the Jewish state at the UN's Palais des Nations.
The event was advertised on the UN website and listed on an official UN document headlined "Human Rights Council, twentieth session, 18 June – 06 July 2012."
Opening week of the Council's latest session, therefore, featured both friends of Hamas sporting UN passes and championing an end to a Jewish state, and Obama's Ambassador (and former California fundraiser) Eileen Donahoe painting the Council as the place to be to promote and protect human rights.
In recent months, top Israeli officials have pleaded with their US counterparts to end American legitimization of the Council in light of its virulently anti-Israel record. In fact, this is the first Council session in which Israel's observer seat is empty. Instead, the Obama administration has doubled-down on its support for the UN body and continues to trumpet its decision to seek a second term on the Council at elections this fall.
Hamas and company have now calibrated team Obama's evident priorities to their advantage.
One of Friday's three speakers was Sameh Habeeb, head of the media department of the "Palestinian Return Centre." The event flyer, which clearly identified the Center as a "coorganizer" and named its representative as a speaker, was authorized to be posted at the UN conference room and distributed on UN NGO-reserved tables. And yet, as the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has documented, the Palestinian Return Centre is one of the central institutions through which Hamas operates in Britain.
Here is some of what Habeeb had to say while speaking in a UN room, at a UN-provided microphone, at a UN-advertised event associated with the UN's top human rights body:
A Hamas-affiliated organization held an "informal parallel meeting" promoting the destruction of the Jewish state at the UN's Palais des Nations