At 14:44 03-05-2002 -0400, Gautam Mukunda wrote: >There is an obvious assumption here. That they will receive a fair >hearing. But there is absolutely nothing in the history of the UN that >suggests that Israel is likely to receive a fair hearing from the UN. >Given that fact, why should they let in a commission one of whose members >has already been plausibly accused of anti-semitism? Let's set aside >whether the accusation is true or not - it wasn't possible for the UN to >find three people none of whom has made anti-semitic comments in a public >forum?
It is quite possible that those people were not considered anti-Semitic by the UN, and perhaps not even *are* anti-Semitic. I have noticed that some people are very quick to label someone anti-Semitic (sometimes so quick that it borders on paranoia) even when they are not. I for one am not anti-Semitic, yet you and some others have repeatedly accused me of being just that. >Either that's true, which is a remarkable indictment of the UN, or >Kofi Anan just didn't care whether that was true of the commissioners, >which would also be an indictment of the UN. If they cooperate and are >unjustly found guilty - and the Palestinians themselves are now saying no >war crimes were committed, so based on the evidence that we now have, the >only way that they could be found guilty is if they were found so unjustly >- then that would do great harm to Israel. Better to use it as (yet >another) example of the UN's constant anti-Israel bias. If there is no evidence that Israel committed war crimes, not even the UN can find Israel guilty. If the UN finds Israel guilty they will have to provide proof of it; Israel can then try to show that the evidence given is false. I find your suggestion very worrying. Rather than giving Israel the chance to improve its image, you want the world to think of Israel as guilty of war crimes without an investigation so that the UN can be discredited. That would only serve any anti-UN bias on your part, not contribute anything positive to the situation in the Middle East. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
