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the international community has turned a blind eye as genocides across the globe claimed millions of innocent lives. Cambodia
I finally persuaded Netanyahu that if I accepted the position
it must prioritize the use of its resources. “The worst first” must be its governing criteria. The “worst” has two major components. First and foremost is the nature and scope of the human wrongs: genocide
I wondered what my mentor Arthur Goldberg
neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who practice human wrongs? For shame. For shame.
a history which tragically persists to this day
UN. That building dedicated in theory to peace has facilitated terrorism
but were told to go to a special room where we could watch and listen to his talk. We assembled in that room and watched as Ahmadinejad was greeted with applause by many of the delegates. When he began to speak
the OIC states intervened to couple anti-Semitism with the phrase ‘racist practices of Zionism
one of the Islamic delegates—usually Egypt—intervened to change ‘Holocaust’ to ‘holocausts.’ Adding insult to injury
UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson - in a dramatic act of identification with the Jews vilified in the pamphlet - declared ""I am a Jew"" at an NGO dinner there Wednesday night.”
but it continued to animate U.N. actions
it did so in tepid terms compared to its treatment of Israel. The General Assembly simply noted “with great concern that the armed conflict in Kampuchea [Cambodia] and is seriously threatening the peace and stability of South-East Asia.” In...
the global community chose instead to use its limited time and resources to try to delegitimize Israel. Just a few months after the Cambodian atrocities began
many leftists dismissed the atrocities as western propaganda. Activists Gareth Porter and George Hilderbrnd wrote
especially at the United Nations. While Pol Pot was murdering millions
meeting with him regularly in New York. In 1967
[check year] he asked me to help him in an informal capacity as an advisor on human rights and matters of international law.
it will have to make a choice: either to perpetuate its double standard on human rights