Comments on: Australia joins UN Human Rights Council https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-joins-un-human-rights-council/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Otto Waldmann https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-joins-un-human-rights-council/#comment-284498 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:11:28 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=80648#comment-284498 An immediate, ostensible reality has become annoyingly palpable in relation to quite a few, if not all UN Agencies and it relates to the striking contradiction between the “founding” principles of all UN institutions and their actual, ostensive actions particularly in terms of principles observed.
Israel has been for quite some time the litmus test of honesty, genuine respect for the very core existential function of the UN and its various implementation arms, its vast array of Committees etc.
Australia must participate in whatever fora is supposed to sit or is periodically elected, but ours is a MINORITY voice of reason, alongside very few others in a painfully rich raft of important matters.
We must be heard, indeed, but, in the effect, our voice of righteous stance may be drowned in an ocean of an open hostile majority.
We do need to be heard, true, but, more importantly, we should be able to achieve fundamental changes, to sway the unfair, the vile waves of state antisemitism toward genuine universal morality, toward staving off the gangs of hatred mainly directed against Israel.
Tragically, UN has managed to a great extent to institutionalise enmity against Israel and, implicitly, to some extent, against all those, Australia included, who have been striving to bring decency, and reason in a place created precisely for those very purposes.

Let’s see what Ambassador Quinn ca achieve….see if useful, effective measures can be worked out…

Must confess, I am not very optimistic on this one.

]]> By: Rodney Gouttman https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-joins-un-human-rights-council/#comment-284443 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 06:53:40 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=80648#comment-284443 It is unclear how Australia will vote from a “Pacific” perspective now it is a member of this United Nation’s institution known for its utter anti-Israel disposition. The country’s record in recent months on the Israel/Palestinian conundrum, in particular, in recent days,refusing to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State, doesn’t fill one with much optimism.

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