Friday 29th of March 2024

zionist punctuation…….

Publicly, the lobbying against Navi Pillay began with an article in the pro-Israeli German tabloid Bild, Barbara Crossette reports.

It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law, including through the United Nations.

The setting for the ceremony on Sept. 28 would be Berlin’s 19th-century Red City Hall, named for its brick façade. The hall, damaged in World War II, had been reconstructed and become a symbolic landmark in the German capital.

 

By Barbara Crossette
PassBlue

 

 

UNA-Germany expected a full house for the award presentation as positive responses to invitations poured in. The elected mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, was to preside.

None of this happened.

While an exact chronology of how an Israeli campaign contesting the award to Pillay was put into motion in Germany leaves some questions unanswered, the cause and effect is not disputed.

“Berlin mayor torpedoes event honoring head of UN probe into Israel” read the headline in the Times of Israel, an online newspaper published in English and other Western and Middle Eastern languages. It began operating in 2012.

Publicly, the Israel lobbying campaign began with an article in the pro-Israeli German tabloid Bild,which repeated longstanding Israeli allegations that Pillay, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights and South African judge, was pro-Palestinian — or, at least, that she was critical of Israeli policies and actions in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza as well as in East Jerusalem.

However, since 1975, Pillay has also been the advisory-council president of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, a German foundation promoting global criminal law. Her role indicates that not all Germans agree on her alleged record, as the UNA-Germany award would confirm.

The Bild report is primarily focused on Pillay’s most recent position as head of the three-member Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The commission was created by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

 A current target of Israeli ire is directed at one of the panel member’s harsh remarks about Israel. In an interview in July with Mondoweiss, a journal of news and opinion on Palestine, Israel and the United States, the member, Miloon Kothari of India, a human-rights activist with expertise in housing and land rights, who has reported to the Human Rights Council on Israeli occupation of Palestine territory, said:

“I would go as far as to raise the question of why [Israel is] even a member of the United Nations . . . the Israeli government does not respect its own obligations as a UN member state [because] they, in fact, consistently, either directly or through the United States, try to undermine UN mechanisms.”

He referred to a “Jewish lobby” and unspecified nongovernmental organizations as overseers of pro-Israeli views.

Pillay, a distinguished South African jurist of Indian descent, is also accused by the Israelis, without evidence, of being part of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement (BDS), a Palestinian initiative intended to undercut the Israeli economy.

When the 2017 BDS movement attracted attention in Germany, where it was denounced as anti-Semitic, some local governments tried to stop it with repressive or punitive ways. A Munich resident who was supported by defenders of free speech brought a case against the city council, which eventually reached a federal court despite early setbacks.

Early this year, on Jan. 20, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled that German law “guarantees everyone the right to freely express and disseminate their opinion.” The Munich City Council, the court added, could not violate that right by denying permission for an event because it disagreed with the expressed views of the BDS campaign.

The Geneva-based Human Rights Council is not — despite what the general public may think — an integral part of the U.N. organization or under the control of the secretary-general. It was created as an independent body in 2005-2006 to replace the discredited Human Right Commission. The council’s 47 member nations are nominated regionally by governments. Its presidency rotates around the U.N.’s designated geographic blocs.

The council appoints scores of monitors and panels on a range of rights-related topics. The commission of inquiry on Israel and occupied Palestine falls roughly into that system. It is the most-recent controversial action on Israel that has drawn often-bitter divisions among nations and regions.

Soon after the Bild report was published in September, barely a week before the scheduled award ceremony, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, called on Giffey, Berlin’s mayor — a politician from the Social Democratic Party — to call off the ceremony, which she did. She also barred UNA-Germany from using the Berlin City Hall for its ceremony.

Faced with this setback, which sent a shock through the association, according to some members, UNA-Germany had no choice but to hurriedly cancel the event and rescind invitations. What it will do next is still under discussion.

Jeffrey Laurenti, an American commentator on the U.N. and international affairs and an influential member of UNA-USA, in New Jersey, analyzed the predicament of UNA-Germany for PassBlue. “The German UNA must be credited with some daring in having proposed Pillay for this award, given her current role as chairman of a commission of inquiry that Israeli authorities are very anxious to discredit,” he wrote in an email. “For obvious reasons of 20th century history, Germany is one of the most philo-Israeli countries in Europe.”

“From The Times of Israel report,” Laurenti added, “one senses that Ron Prosor, the Israeli ambassador in Berlin (who served as permanent representative at the U.N. a decade ago), sees the cancellation of the award by Berlin’s mayor as evidence of Israel’s, and maybe specifically his, successful diplomacy.

The larger purpose, of course, is preemptively to discredit whatever the commission of inquiry may find. The publicly raised doubts about the propriety of Israel’s membership in the U.N. by one of Pillay’s commission members, Miloon Kothari, has already raised the political price in some Western capitals for heeding the commission’s eventual findings.”

 

 

Barbara Crossette is the senior consulting editor and writer for PassBlue and the United Nations correspondent for The Nation. Previously, Crossette was the U.N. bureau chief for The New York Times from 1994 to 2001 and before that its chief correspondent in Southeast Asia and South Asia. She is the author of So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas, The Great Hill Stations of Asia. She won the George Polk award for her coverage in India of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and the 2010 Shorenstein Prize for her writing on Asia.

This article is from PassBlue.

 

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THE WAR IN UKRAINE IS LIKELY TO BE DRIVEN BY THE "ZIONIASTA", PRESENTLY SUPPORTING THE NAZIS IN KIEV BECAUSE THERE IS MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CASH TO BE MADE BY "FIGHTING" THE RUSSIANS....

 

 

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צְבִיעוּת…..

 

by Gideon Levy

 

Does any country buy Israel’s self-righteousness – it doesn’t recognise the annexation of the four provinces – at a time when Israel is trying to persuade world leaders to recognise its own annexations.

Irony is hanging its head in shame; hypocrisy is embarrassed. Israel is giving them a bad name. The Foreign Ministry announced Friday that “Israel supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. We will not recognise the annexation of the four provinces by Russia.” 

 

Where to begin? With an occupying state preaching to a different occupying state? With an annexing state announcing that it won’t recognise a different annexation? Or perhaps with the gap that has finally opened up between the governments of Lapid and of Netanyahu: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel was silent, Yair Lapid’s Israel preaches morality. One is bad and the other is even worse.

The questions arise on their own: Which is better, hypocrisy or telling the shameful truth? Whataboutism, or closing your eyes to what is happening around you? Apparently, any move Israel takes regarding the war in Ukraine is reprehensible. If it is silent, its silence is disgraceful; if it speaks, its speech is hypocritical. That’s how it is when you go around with a hump. And yet, one cannot remain silent when an annexing state preaches morality to another annexing state. 

The disgrace of silence and inaction was ascribed to fear of Russia, but what about the hypocrisy? What purpose does it serve? Does any country buy Israel’s self-righteousness – it doesn’t recognise the annexation of the four provinces – at a time when Israel is trying to persuade world leaders to recognise its own annexations and even to expand them again and again, if only it were allowed?

There is no fundamental difference between tearing Ukraine into shreds and tearing Palestine into shreds. Tearing apart Palestine is even less moral. The Ukrainians have a state, districts of which have been ripped away; the Palestinians do not have a state, and tearing away the remnants of their land means that they never will have a state. A prime minister who supports this, in his actions or omissions, cannot preach morality to another country. It would be better for him to stay silent, out of shame. 

It’s amazing to see how not one muscle twitches on the faces of Israel’s decision makers and ordinary citizens when talking about the Russia occupation. How sanctimonious: the Russian occupation is so cruel and so brutal, so ugly; it violates international law and the resolutions of the international community. And the Russian soldiers? Did you see how cruel they are? They kill children and bomb homes. So many innocent victims in Ukraine that you could just cry. What about the Israeli occupation? Is it prettier? More legal? Is it not violent and brutal? Has it not killed thousands of innocent people, including hundreds of children? The Israeli occupation is simply older and more rooted. It is permanent, and presumably eternal.

How can Lapid be amazed by his British counterpart, Prime Minister Liz Truss, mumbling in his ear something about moving her country’s embassy to Jerusalem, a step that is absolutely a recognition of annexation, and in the same breath declare that his government does not recognise the Russian annexation? How can Israel oppose the reopening of the American consulate in East Jerusalem, a patently anti-annexation move, and not recognise the Russian annexation? In what world can Israel even speak without any shame about other occupations and annexations? 

Israel is something different. It is always exceptional. It is always allowed that which is forbidden to others, including Russia. This land belongs to the Jews, only to them, for the same reasons and explanations that Ukraine is the land of the Russians. The Ukrainians and the Palestinians are not peoples, after all, and they obviously don’t have national rights as the Jews do in the Land of Israel. We are brothers, Israelis and Russians: We and they are unbridled conquerors. 

If Russia continues on its path, Israel will have to join the international sanctions it has evaded so far. That will be the day: IsraeIi boycott, divestment and sanctions against Russia, much less moral than the original. It won’t keep it from screaming that BDS is antisemitic and seeks to destroy Israel. Sanctions are appropriate, then, as long as they’re imposed on Iran and Russia, not on Israel. Save us!

 

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.

First published in Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel on Oct 2, 2022

 

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GUSNOTE: THE ANNEXATION OF THE FOUR DONBASS PROVINCES IS MORE LIKE A RETURN TO THE MOTHERLAND (I HATE THAT WORD). BUT THESE FOUR RUSSIAN PROVINCES WERE ONLY ATTACHED TO UKRAINE BY THE VAGARIES OF THE COMMUNISTS, IN 1922. CRIMEA WAS 'GIFTED" IN 1954... MY GUESS IS THAT THE COMMUNISTS WANTED TO CONTROL THE GALICIANS (THE UKRAINIANS OF NORDIC/GERMANIC DESCENT) TO PREVENT THEM FROM DOING THE DIRTY ON RUSSIA (SLAVIC ORIGINS)... THE GALICIANS WERE FULLY-BLOWN NAZIS DURING WW2 AND INVADED RUSSIA WITH THE GERMAN ARMY. THESE GALICIANS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF AROUND 200,000 JEWS. THEY STILL FAVOUR FASCISM IN THEIR THINKING. ZELENSKY IS ONLY A LITTLE HELPER WITH HIS JEWISH HITLERIAN MOUSTACHE....

 

 

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