August 16, 2016
East of the Sun for the United Nations
Why is the headquarters of the United Nations still in New York? If it is removed, Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, who canceled plans to attend in 2013, can attend meetings of the U.N. General Assembly. So far he has been denied a U.S. visa because he has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes he allegedly committed in the Darfur region of Sudan, where 300,000 were killed and two million were displaced.
For the benefit of Bashir and the other numerous dictators, tyrants, and ruthless violators of human rights, it is incumbent on well meaning people to find a more suitable location for the U.N. – perhaps Khartoum, Kabul, Mogadishu, or Aleppo, where they could obtain visas and would feel more comfortable.
Given the past actions of the UNHRC, can any rational person really be surprised that at the UNHRC meeting on March 24, 2016, Israel was proclaimed the worst violator of human rights in the world? Five resolutions condemned...(Read Full Article)