Does Israel have more condemnatory resolutions against them than any other country in the Middle East?
Probably. Not surprising, considering Qadaffi chairs the U.N. human rights council.
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200304/FOR20030422d.shtml
“As many as one-third of all the resolutions produced by the UNCHR - which chose Libya to chair the committee for a year starting in January - are condemnations of the tiny Jewish state.”
Remember, in 1975, the U.N. passed a resolution declaring that zionism was racism (therefore making such notable statesmen as Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King Jr. racist bigots), so according to the U.N.'s own declarations, the state of Israel doesn’t even have any right to exist.
Yes. Pretty much because there is a large block of countries in the middle east that would like to see Israel not exist anymore, and they (using oil control) get other countries to go along with them to condemn Israel.
Qadaffi in charge of human rights. This is too ironic. Hitler for head of the Anti-Defamation League!!!
Well, here’s about 75 UN Resolutions against Israel for the period 1955-92, e.g. at least a decade before Libya had anything to do with the UN Human Rights Commission:
http://www.middleeastnews.com/unresolutionslist.html
http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_74.html
"In 1974, Yassir Arafat addressed the General Assembly with a holstered pistol on his hip and received a standing ovation by that body. The hostility against Israel reached its peak in 1975, when the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring “Zionism as a form of racism.” This infamous Resolution remained in effect for sixteen years when, under intense pressure from the United States, it was finally repealed. What is the reason for the collective hostility of the UN against Israel? All of this hostility is based on the very structure of the United Nations. In the General Assembly, 130 of the 190 members will always, automatically, vote against Israel. The inner circle of this hatred is the core of twenty Arab nations, which initiates the harshest condemnations of Israel. Those countries are part of the larger 56-member Muslim group, which can reliably be counted on automatically to join the Arab block in their anti-Israel Resolutions. And those countries are almost always joined by the “non-aligned” group, which are essentially the underdeveloped countries of the world. They have little interest in Israel, but they are united in their hatred of the United States and consider Israel its surrogate. Each country in the General Assembly counts the same. The vote of the United States counts the same as that of, say, Rwanda or the Ivory Coast.
The greatest outrage is that of the 190 members of the UN, Israel, not being a full member of any of the “regional groups,” is the only country that cannot be a member of the Security Council, the most important body of the UN. Syria, deservedly classified as a terrorist state, has just been elected to a 2-year term on that Council. Such outlaw countries as Libya, Iran, North Korea, and even Saddam Hussein’s Iraq are eligible for membership. Israel is not."
As Golda Meir (former Prime Minister of Israel) so beautifully said,
“There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.”
i think that was recently changed, about israel not being allowed onto the security council. Countries and their UN subgroups are organized largely by geography and the mid east countries opposed an attempt to make isreal a part of the middle east.
however another group (i can’t remember the name exactly, but it was a group based on culture rather than geography. This ‘bloc’ represented western developed countries. IE canada, the US, spain, South Korea, etc.) gave israel a temporary membership for a few years. So for the time being they are allowed the same abilities as other countries.