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Talk about humiliation.
When the U.N.'s top human rights official was in occupied Palestine
last year her car was
shot at by Israeli settlers -- the Israeli army doing nothing to
stop them.
Now we learn that the
very same Mary Robinson is herself Jewish and has been using her
position to head off
the urgently needed world censorship of Israel for its racist and
apartheid-like policies.
That occupation army has however managed on its own to shoot and
threaten dozens of
international
journalists in the past year, even wounding a top CNN
reporter though the
network chose to hush up
the whole affair.
And that occupation army made a point a few days ago of taking over
at gunpoint Lutheran
Churches and schools in
the Palestinian town of Beit Jala, not far from Jerusalem,
apparently to show the
Lutherans of their distain for the church's recent resolution in the U.S. calling on the
American Congress to stop the funding that makes Israel's
occupation possible.
Yesterday that same Israeli occupation army threatened the top U.N.
official of UNRWA, the
organization in
existence for nearly as long as the U.N. itself whose mission
is to help
Palestinian refugees.
As for Mary Robinson. The problem is not that she is Jewish. The
problem is that she has
not revealed this in the
past and that she can now be understandably accused of having
a
personal "conflict of
interest" because of the way she has conducted herself and
especially
because she has
been leading the charge to prevent Israel being vilified at the
Durban
Conference as so many
others think is both fitting and necessary.
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