We'll never get a seat on the Security Council now!

[JakeYYZ]

According to a report by UN Watch we were the only country in the entire damn world to say hey, this is f***iggin' stupid.

June 29, 2011
GENEVA — UN Watch thanked Canada today for being first in the world to answer its call on UN member states to protest North Korea’s presidency of a UN disarmament body. Click here for Canadian statement.
"We now call on the U.S., the EU, and all other UN member states to follow Canada's lead and demand that this arch-enemy of peace and human rights surrender its presidency to a more credible country," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based human rights monitoring group.
“It’s asking the fox to guard the chickens, and damages the U.N.’s credibility.”

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/ ... t=10891427

[Siddley Hawker]

That's it, we're screwed. Somebody in Ottawa had the balls to call a spade a fucking shovel.

[azimuthaviation]

UN Watch was established in 1993 under the Chairmanship of Ambassador Morris B. Abram, the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. UN Watch is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Headed by Ambassador Alfred H. Moses (Chair), former US Ambassador to Romania and Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus Conflict, UN Watch notes that the disproportionate attention and unfair treatment applied by the UN toward Israel over the years...


What a cynical and cruel use to use the suffering of the North Korean people to fulfil their own agenda, which is layed out clearly in their "mission statement". They dont give a damn about peace or Korean human rights issues, but they are willing to exploit them for cheap propoganda.

[bmc]

UN Watch is long known for having little credibility.

Next.

[Siddley Hawker]

UN Watch is long known for having little credibility.

So it's not unlike the UN then?

[mcrit]

UN Watch was established in 1993 under the Chairmanship of Ambassador Morris B. Abram, the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. UN Watch is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Headed by Ambassador Alfred H. Moses (Chair), former US Ambassador to Romania and Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus Conflict, UN Watch notes that the disproportionate attention and unfair treatment applied by the UN toward Israel over the years...

Hey, AA, they cleaners called. Your brown shirts are ready for pick up.

[azimuthaviation]

Youre quoting my quote which was taken direct from the UN watch website. So I guess that makes them Nazis right??


This group UN watch has an agenda, namely to deligitimize the UN in order to detract from the anti-Israel motions in the UN. They want to paint with the same brush the anti-Israeli "bias" in the UN with incidents like this. So when the UN condemns something Israeli they can say "Oh thats the same UN that put Kim Il Sung as president of the disarmamemt body". So before you go "hootin' 'n' hollerin'" maybe you should know who is saying it and why.

Oh n BTW while fascism was running rampant in Europe the first bullet fired against the fascists didnt come from a British America or Soviet rifle, it came from an Arab one.

[North Shore]

Ok, knock it off with 'ze Cherman' hijack!

IMHO, there is something (negative)to be said about a country like North Korea being in charge of a UN Disarmament body, regardless of who is pointing it out. Given Canada's conduct last week with regards to exporting asbestos, I'm not sure that we should be taken too seriously either, tho...

[azimuthaviation]

regardless of who is pointing it out.

I dont think thats quite true. If the headline said "A branch of the American Jewish comitee, UN Watch, an anti-UN group that furthers the interests of Israel and whose purpose is solely to deligitimize and criticize the UN to further these goals commend Canada's criticism of the current seat in the rotating presidence of the UN disarmamne committee" how much stock would you put in it?

[North Shore]

Well, the little boy who cried wolf actually did see a wolf at the end, no?

[mcrit]

Well, the little boy who cried wolf actually did see a wolf at the end, no?

Even paranoids have enemies. Bonus points to the first person who can tell me who said that.

[TeePeeCreeper]

Well, the little boy who cried wolf actually did see a wolf at the end, no?

Even paranoids have enemies. Bonus points to the first person who can tell me who said that.

For 500 Alex, who is Golda Meir?

[mcrit]

For 500 Alex, who is Golda Meir?

Right religion, wrong nationality and gender.

[Moose47]

Alex I'll go for 1000. Who is Henry A. Kissinger?

[mcrit]

Full points and bragging rights to Moose!