Is the UN Fair to Israel?
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🗓️ 5 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | There are 193 countries in the United Nations today. |
| 0:05.0 | Of these, one has been singled out as an especially egregious offender of the organization's mandate to preserve and enhance human freedom and tolerance. |
| 0:16.0 | Can you guess which it is? |
| 0:19.0 | It has about 7 million citizens of whom a fifth are Arab. |
| 0:24.0 | The government is vibrantly democratic, it's press wide open and religious freedom fully respected. |
| 0:32.0 | Women have equal rights and gaze live openly. |
| 0:35.0 | The answer is Israel. |
| 0:38.0 | Here are some facts. |
| 0:40.0 | 38% of all the resolutions of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN's top human rights body, |
| 0:48.0 | that are critical of specific countries have been directed at Israel alone. |
| 0:54.0 | The council has a permanent agenda that governs every regular session. |
| 0:59.0 | This agenda is composed of 10 items, one of which is always reserved for criticizing Israel. |
| 1:07.0 | Between 2006, when the council was created, and 2012, it published 48 reports condemning Israel. |
| 1:17.0 | During that same period, there were nine reports on Syria's mass killings and torture of its own citizens, |
| 1:25.0 | three on Iran's genocide threatening regime, and not one on, for example, China, which denies more than a billion people elementary freedoms. |
| 1:38.0 | I could go on, but I think you get the idea. |
| 1:43.0 | So we are faced with a choice. |
| 1:46.0 | Either there's something very wrong with Israel that I'm not telling you about, |
| 1:51.0 | or there's something very wrong with the United Nations that you should know about. |
| 1:56.0 | Let's look into the history of both. |
| 1:59.0 | First Israel. |
| 2:01.0 | Ever since its establishment voted for by the United Nations, by the way, in 1948, |
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