Terrorism or Self Defense...The U.N. can't discern the difference!

Anne Bayefsky wrote a good piece about the moral depravity at the U.N.

Louise Arbour, the U.N. "High Commissioner for Human Rights" (no arrogance in THAT title!), is troubled at the loss of life in "occupied Palestinian territory."

She sees no distinction between the deaths of innocents caused by homicide bombers and the retaliatory attacks by Israelis on the terrorists or their masters.

Don't you just love egalitarian political correctness where everyone is equally wrong? (unless you're one of the good guys, then you're always wrong!)

On May 12, Arbour issued a stupefying press release. In the context of a message, about the 'deteriorating situation in occupied Palestinian territory,' Arbour stressed: 'The rising number of lives lost, whether as a result of targeted killings or suicide attacks, home-made missiles or artillery fire, is unacceptable.' The United Nations highest-ranking human-rights officer cannot distinguish between suicide bombing and targeting the would-be bombers or their masters. She cannot discern a difference between the missiles directed at Israeli homes and schools from Gaza, and the artillery fire from Israel directed at the launching pads or the launchers.

In fact, not once in her lengthy remarks did Arbour mention terrorism or self-defense. On the contrary, she explicitly described her goal as 'making the parties to the conflict stop this new cycle of violence.'

The moral depravity of Arbour's message resonates across the U.N. system. This month the U.N. Palestinian representative, Riyad Mansour, issued two letters to the U.N. Security Council. The first, dated May 5, contains the 'names of martyrs killed by the Israeli occupying forces' (emphasis mine). Included in the list is Sami Salim Mohmed, the Palestinian suicide bomber that killed 11 people and wounded 66 at a food stand in Tel Aviv on April 17. Ten days later on May 15, the U.N. representative issued another letter listing as a 'martyr' Elias Ashkar. The Israeli army had successfully targeted and killed Ashkar, the man responsible for constructing the Tel Aviv bomb and dispatching the bomber.

On and on it goes. The secular left can never admit to a moral highground, unless the United States or Israel are involved. In those cases, the opposition is always given the benefit of the doubt.