If there is one place in the world where you would expect a full-throated condemnation of terrorism it would be in the chambers of an international Human Rights Council. Right?
You would of course be wrong to think this. We are, after all, speaking of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which has about as much to do with defending Human Rights as Iranian Mullahs have to do with defending the rights of Queers, or any place named “Democratic Republic of…” has to do with promoting democracy.
This sad but unsurprising fact was demonstrated once again by the tweet/statement put out by the Council in response to the vicious, barbaric attacks on Israel over the weekend. Rather than deploring the attacks, or even engaging in the sort of “both-sides-ism” you might expect from a divided group, what we got was this:
On Monday afternoon, the @UN Human Rights Council observed a moment of silence for the loss of innocent lives in the occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere.#HRC54 pic.twitter.com/9cgQDoQAyF
— United Nations Human Rights Council | 📍 #HRC54 (@UN_HRC) October 9, 2023
Observing a moment of silence for innocents in the Palestinian territory and “elsewhere.”
Elsewhere. They can’t even speak Israel’s name.
It is true that in war innocent civilians will be killed, and some of those innocents will indeed be and have been Palestinians. They, too, deserve recognition for their tragedies. If you think that “a good Palestinian is a dead Palestinian” you are wrong. Collective guilt is wrong.
But just as we don’t disdain Ukraine for the innocents they inadvertently kill in their war against the Russians, we shouldn’t disdain Israel for the collateral damage that will result from their war against Hamas–which, I remind you, is the elected government of the Gaza Strip and which started this war with what amounts to war crimes.
Millions of civilians died in World War II–the good war, as they say–and yet few people condemn the Allies for pressing the war until the Germans unconditionally surrendered. The Allies carpet-bombed both Germany and Japan and while we look back in horror at the costs involved, most people think that we were in the right (the strategy of strategic bombing was not especially successful and I think was mostly a mistake, except perhaps the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that is a different issue having to do with tactics).
Israel is trying to be far more surgical and has gone out of its way to avoid civilian casualties. All those videos of “civilian” infrastructure being bombed leave out the context: Hamas uses civilians as human shields, mosques and schools as hideouts, and does its dirty work in a manner that ensures civilian casualties on both sides of the conflict. It is a key part of their strategy.
They want those civilian deaths, and Israel desperately wants to avoid them. It simply can’t always succeed in doing so.
Yet the UN Human Rights Council openly sides with Hamas–which shows why Hamas uses this strategy. The international “community” essentially rewards them for doing so.
I would be appalled, except this is so common and standard that I am too weary to be so. Why expend the emotional energy on anger when I could channel it into opposing the UN’s very existence?
Transnationalism, world government, international norms and institutions, and all that malarkey as Joe Biden might say, is simply the institutionalization of an anti-Western consensus of all the “best” people. Even Western leaders barely defend our civilization, because they disdain the proles whom they are burdened to defend. They somehow believe that if the barbarians win they will still somehow enjoy their privileges.
Why they would believe that is something of a mystery. But then again, something as inane as “Queers for Palestine” exists, so don’t underestimate the lunacy of Leftists.
Who wants to tell them?
Queers for Palestine pic.twitter.com/QrX1rZwUSD
— Lior Sela (@liorsela) October 9, 2023
The leaders of the French Revolution found out the hard way what happens to the elites who ally with barbarians. Most of them were in the professional class and expected to rise to power and glory by mobilizing the masses to attack the aristocracy. What they got was a good beheading.
Of course, many of these Human Rights Council representatives are barbarians themselves, so they will make out fine most of the time. But that the West still gives any support or credence to these thugs in suits is a sign of civilizational decline.
One of many, of course.
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