Hillel Neuer, telling the UN like it is
In a speech delivered before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Hillel Neuer, the Executive Director of UN Watch, exposes the truth about the council’s anti-Semitic bent. And while it is already difficult to take seriously a body supposedly concerned with human rights where China, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia have sat as members, Neuer’s analysis is dead-on and shatters any remaining illusions as to the council’s credibility.
UN Human rights Council President Luis Alfonso De Alba makes no defense against Neuer’s charges. Rather, he opts to threaten that any similar comments made against the council will be removed from the records. Essentially, since he cannot deny the charges, the president of the Council of Human Rights decides to suppress the right of free speech.
It is outrageous that the United States pays the lion’s share of the UN’s regular budget (22%) and its peacekeeping budget (27%). In 2006, that worked out to over $423 million dollars for the regular budget and, in 2005, $1.28 billion for peacekeeping budget (though the US only paid about half the peacekeeping amount). Why does the US fund an organization that not only barks at Israel but bites the hand that feeds it?
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