Kudos to Trump for “putting America first” and the UN “as a distant second.” Not only has the Human Rights Council become “a cesspool of political bias,” that bias is toward Islamic states that adhere to the sharia and their allies, as is evident in the constant Israel-bashing, while the worst human rights-abusing states are given a bye:
You see, a U.N. Human Rights Commission was begun in 1946, and yet that Commission was soon preoccupied, even obsessed, with criticism of—you guessed it—Israel.
The obliteration of Israel remains the goal of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Fatah. It’s high time the US completely pulled out of the UN, which has strengthened its alliance with the sharia-compliant Organization of Islamic Cooperation, while the exorbitant bill is footed by American taxpayers:
In 2016, the U.S. government contributed more than $10 billion to the United Nations, of which about $6 billion was voluntary and $4 billion was assessed.
“Virgil: Trump Administration Puts America First and the United Nations a Distant Second,” by Virgil, Breitbart, June 21, 2018:
Every now and then, the leaders of the U.S. diplomatic apparatus actually do something that is in the interest of the U.S. The recent withdrawal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council is a case in point.
On June 18, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, blasted the U.S. for “government-sanctioned child abuse” on the U.S.-Mexico border. The very next day, June 19, President Trump’s appointee as ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, announced that the U.S. would be leaving the Council. As Haley put it, pointing to that and many earlier incidents, the Council had become “a cesspool of political bias.”
And Haley was immediately backed up by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:
The Human Rights Council has become an exercise in shameless hypocrisy, with many of the world’s worst human-rights abuses going ignored and some of the world’s most serious offenders sitting on the council itself. The only thing worse than a council that does almost nothing to protect human rights is a council that covers for human-rights abuses—and is therefore an obstacle to progress and an impediment to change.
The Permanent Floating Crap Game
The Human Rights Cesspool—oops, make that Council—has an interesting history. Interesting, that is, if one is a student of bureaucratic shell games. The Council was established in 2006, although, in fact, its origins go back much further. You see, a U.N. Human Rights Commission was begun in 1946, and yet that Commission was soon preoccupied, even obsessed, with criticism of—you guessed it—Israel.
Not surprisingly, the Commission came under fire, specifically, from the George W. Bush administration. In response, the U.N. engaged in some striped-pants damage control, which was really just shapeshifting: In 2006, it abolished the Human Rights Commission and immediately replaced it with . . . a Human Rights Council. Fans of the musical Guys and Dolls might recognize such trickery as the globalist equivalent of the show’s “permanent floating crap game.” To its credit, the Bush 43 administration saw through the ruse and stayed aloof from the new Council; however, in 2009, the Obama administration eagerly joined.
Needless to say, the new Human Rights Council is no different from its similarly named bureaucratic predecessor. That is, the Council is focused on everything but human rights. And that only makes sense when one considers the roster of 47 countries on the Council, including such paragons of non-human rights as China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. In other words, and no surprise here, today’s Council is pretty much the same bunch of America-bashing hypocrites as yesterday’s Commission…..