Sunday, July 25, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Blatant Bias - 'Anyone who still doubts the magnitude of the UN Human Rights Council's anti-Israel bias should read this Jerusalem Post expose on the man appointed to head the council's latest probe of Israel, German jurist Christian Tomuschat. Tomuschat's panel will investigate compliance with the Goldstone Report...In most legal systems, someone who publicly rejected a major principle of the relevant legal code would be disqualified -- especially when one side (Israel) has based all its decisions on that principle. But not in the HRC's system. The HRC's legal system, it seems, has only one sacrosanct principle: against Israel, anything goes.'
