Israel is the only country that \"has been singled out by a majority of the U.N. membership for extinction.\" So writes Arnold Beichman, a visiting scholar and research fellow at Stanford University\'s Hoover Institution since 1982, in an article appearing in today\'s Washington Times entitled, \"U.N. Lynching Prelude.\" (See \"www.washtimes.com/commentary/20020502-26050015.htm\") Beichman then proceeds to \"document this statement with a catalogue of actions taken by the U.N. in the half-century of its existence that will demonstrate\" this claim. Excerpts:
\"Israel is not shown on the maps of Arab cartographers, especially those used in school textbooks. The U.N. majority, acting as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner like a lynch mob of yore, now intends to turn that myth into reality. The latest U.N. action by unanimous vote of the Security Council to set up a committee to investigate the Jenin \"massacre\" is an example of typical U.N. double-dealing where Israel is concerned. It never occurred to the U.N. Security Council to set up a special committee to investigate Mr. Arafat\'s 18-month suicide bombing intifada...
\"Here is the documentation (assembled with the aid of U.N. Watch) of how the U.N., driven by the powerful Arab-Muslim bloc, has successfully ghettoized Israel:
(1) Israel is the only country excluded from the U.N.\'s regional group system… Since Israel does not belong to any group, it is the only country of 190 member states that is not eligible to serve on the numerous U.N. commissions…
(2) In recent years, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has annually passed five resolutions condemning Israel. This year, they passed seven. By contrast, each of the following countries/regions has been the subject of only one resolution: Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Russia/Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Southeast Europe and Sudan… One resolution this year even contained a camouflaged endorsement of Palestinian terrorism. It \"reaffirmed\" a General Assembly resolution from 1982 (No. 37/43), which approves of resistance to occupation \"by all available means.\" There is a special rapporteur [examiner] who is assigned by the commission to examine Israel\'s actions. Rapporteurs for other countries investigate \"situations.\" The rapporteur for Israel is mandated to investigate \"violations,\" thus prejudging the outcome of his report…
(3) Nov. 29 is the United Nations Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. No other people has a U.N. Day of Solidarity…
(4) Israel is the only state to which a special investigator with \"an open-ended mandate to inspect its human rights record\" is assigned by the U.N.
(5) It is the only state targeted by two special committees and special units of the U.N. Secretariat ostensibly devoted to the Palestinians but in reality dedicated to Israel-bashing worldwide, costing millions of dollars a year.
...(10) UNIFIL, the U.N. force stationed on the Israel-Lebanon border, hid a videotape of Israeli soldiers being abducted by Hezbollah in October 2000. After finally admitting to having the tape, the U.N. would only show an edited version (in which Hezbollah faces were hidden) to the Israeli government. They claimed they needed to maintain neutrality between a member state and a terrorist group.
…(12) UNESCO, in Paris, began passing resolutions about protection of Jerusalem holy sites and access for Muslims in 1968. No resolutions about protection or Jewish access were passed from 1946 to 1967 when Jordan controlled Jerusalem and barred Jews from entering…
\"Israel is not shown on the maps of Arab cartographers, especially those used in school textbooks. The U.N. majority, acting as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner like a lynch mob of yore, now intends to turn that myth into reality. The latest U.N. action by unanimous vote of the Security Council to set up a committee to investigate the Jenin \"massacre\" is an example of typical U.N. double-dealing where Israel is concerned. It never occurred to the U.N. Security Council to set up a special committee to investigate Mr. Arafat\'s 18-month suicide bombing intifada...
\"Here is the documentation (assembled with the aid of U.N. Watch) of how the U.N., driven by the powerful Arab-Muslim bloc, has successfully ghettoized Israel:
(1) Israel is the only country excluded from the U.N.\'s regional group system… Since Israel does not belong to any group, it is the only country of 190 member states that is not eligible to serve on the numerous U.N. commissions…
(2) In recent years, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has annually passed five resolutions condemning Israel. This year, they passed seven. By contrast, each of the following countries/regions has been the subject of only one resolution: Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Russia/Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Southeast Europe and Sudan… One resolution this year even contained a camouflaged endorsement of Palestinian terrorism. It \"reaffirmed\" a General Assembly resolution from 1982 (No. 37/43), which approves of resistance to occupation \"by all available means.\" There is a special rapporteur [examiner] who is assigned by the commission to examine Israel\'s actions. Rapporteurs for other countries investigate \"situations.\" The rapporteur for Israel is mandated to investigate \"violations,\" thus prejudging the outcome of his report…
(3) Nov. 29 is the United Nations Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. No other people has a U.N. Day of Solidarity…
(4) Israel is the only state to which a special investigator with \"an open-ended mandate to inspect its human rights record\" is assigned by the U.N.
(5) It is the only state targeted by two special committees and special units of the U.N. Secretariat ostensibly devoted to the Palestinians but in reality dedicated to Israel-bashing worldwide, costing millions of dollars a year.
...(10) UNIFIL, the U.N. force stationed on the Israel-Lebanon border, hid a videotape of Israeli soldiers being abducted by Hezbollah in October 2000. After finally admitting to having the tape, the U.N. would only show an edited version (in which Hezbollah faces were hidden) to the Israeli government. They claimed they needed to maintain neutrality between a member state and a terrorist group.
…(12) UNESCO, in Paris, began passing resolutions about protection of Jerusalem holy sites and access for Muslims in 1968. No resolutions about protection or Jewish access were passed from 1946 to 1967 when Jordan controlled Jerusalem and barred Jews from entering…