June 20, 2007

Statement of the Palestinian observer on the Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in the occupied Palestinian territory: Follow-up to the Human Rights Council Resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1

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The Palestinian UN observer objects to the very existence of the State of Israel. He asks "[w]hat had the Palestinian people done to Jews back in 1897 to justify the Zionist movement decision in Basle to colonise Palestine and thereafer in 1901 to establish its spearhead of expropriating Palestinian land..." And while antisemitism runs rife in the Palestinian media, school system and the Hamas Charter, the Palestinian observer uses the Human Rights Council to complain of the "outworn tag of anti-Semitism employed and exploited by Israel." He also compares Israelis to Nazis - referring to Israel-created "concentration camps."