Love of the Land: Palestinians complain: too many U.N. reports on Palestinians

Palestinians complain: too many U.N. reports on Palestinians

UN Watch
21 February '10

For the first time in the history of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinians are requesting to delay a UN report on Palestinian rights, saying there are too many.

In an organizational meeting of the council held Thursday in advance of its upcoming March session, the Palestinian representative asked to delay the scheduled report of Richard Falk, the council’s permanent investigator of alleged Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories, and a leading supporter of 9/11 conspiracy theories. (See original schedule’s par. 83.)

Their reason?

“Taking into account the number of reports related to the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories under agenda item 7, in order to treat them with the most appropriate manner, I request to postpone the report of Professor Richard Falk to be considered during the 14th session of the HRC.”

That’s interesting. The council and other UN bodies typically deluge sessions with an endless stream of reports about alleged Israeli violations. The March session of the council will dedicate more time to this specific subject than to its agenda item for human rights in the entire rest of the world.

Insiders say the real reason is that Falk’s report gives undue status to Hamas rule over Gaza, and Fatah is fuming.

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Love of the Land: Palestinians complain: too many U.N. reports on Palestinians