Priceless

Explicitly wishing for the death and destruction of the entire Israeli people and state. Cost: Minor Global Indignation and Chest Beating

Firing Rockets Across Sovereign Borders and Targeting Children. Cost: Two Sentences in a U.N. Report

Occupying a relatively non-violent people and exiling their religious leader. Cost: Some liberal Westerners throwing a concert and putting bumperstickers on their car...but, no UN Human Rights' Resolutions (and having a seat, ironically, on the council)

Having a vibrant female sex slave industry, oppressing the majority of your citizens, and hoarding your oil money in the hands of a tiny, tiny minority. Cost: Nothing...also having a seat on the Human Right Council.

Instituting racist policies meant to starve the 600,000 people you hate. Cost: Nothing...have you ever even heard of Zimbabwe?


Having the only democratic nation in a region filled with Despotisms, having an Arab-Israeli serve on a Supreme Court that is radically independent of the Legislature, and holding regular, fair, legal, and transparent elections regularly. Cost: Being one of the only countries condemned by said UN Human Rights Council...fifteen times in two years (while Sudan, who clearly is in the midst of genocidal warfare and has killed millions more than every Israeli-Arab conflict ever will, has never been condemned); being the only country who has an annual review of it human rights....the resolution was sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference and passed in 2006 29-12 (and five absentions); receiving 249 UN resolutions concerning your activities since 2000 (while the Second Congo War, which killed 4 million plus only constituted 56 UN resolutions); and, finally, in its first year of existence, the UN Human Rights council passed 7 resolutions, all of which were against Israel and has been the antagonist in 9 of the last 22 (07-08). Really?

Having Israel around to blame your own failures in leadership and harsh human rights' records? Cost: Priceless


You mean to tell me that when Syria killed 23,000 Palestinians in the '80s, or when Jordan massacred hundreds of Palestinians, or when these countries rountinely oppress their own people, the UN Human Rights Council or General Assembly has nothing better to do? For instance, in 1991 Syrian representatives at the Commission on Human Rights accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children in their rituals; the PLO representative in Geneva, Nabil Ramlani, used the same forum to accuse Israel of injecting 300 Palestinian children with the AIDS virus. In 1984, during the UN Human Rights Commission conference on religious tolerance, Saudi Arabian delegate Marouf al-Dawalibi said that "The Talmud says that if a Jew does not drink every year the blood of a non-Jewish man, he will be damned for eternity." I suppose when you are busy killing your own people slowly and oppressing your women, it is good to have a Jewish country in your general vicinity...I'm just saying...