{"id":2356,"date":"2007-10-01T07:17:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2007-10-01T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:17:17","slug":"2007-10-1-on-the-un-human-rights-council-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"On the UN Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Israeli government and President Bush are right about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908055&amp;amp;contrassID=1&amp;amp;subContrassID=1\">UN Human Rights Council<\/a>: it does not fairly spread blame for human rights abuses. But the problem is not that it blames Israel too much &#8212; it does quite an appropriate job in that. It&#8217;s just that it should also focus on other countries, including members such as Egypt (local human rights organizations even campaigned against their country&#8217;s membership here!) and of course places like Sudan, Iran, China, North Korea or Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>But everything it says about Israel holds, and it doesn&#8217;t mean it should change its mind about regularly reviewing human rights abuses in Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories. I can&#8217;t say I like the Council&#8217;s composition much, but then again I don&#8217;t like the way the Security Council works either &#8212; and that&#8217;s much, much more important.<\/p>\n<p>[I bring this up because a commenter left the link above.]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Israeli government and President Bush are right about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/pages\/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=908055&amp;amp;contrassID=1&amp;amp;subContrassID=1\">UN Human Rights Council<\/a>: it does not fairly spread blame for human rights abuses. But the problem is not that it blames Israel too much &#8212; it does quite an appropriate job in that. It&#8217;s just that it should also focus on other countries, including members such as Egypt (local human rights organizations even campaigned against their country&#8217;s membership here!) and of course places like Sudan, Iran, China, North Korea or Myanmar.<br \/>\nBut everything it says about Israel holds, and it doesn&#8217;t mean it should change its mind about regularly reviewing human rights abuses in Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories. I can&#8217;t say I like the Council&#8217;s composition much, but then again I don&#8217;t like the way the Security Council works either &#8212; and that&#8217;s much, much more important.<br \/>\n[I bring this up because a commenter left the link above.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}