Tick for Malcolm Turnbull on Israel UN vote

BE proud that Australia was one of just two countries with the guts to vote against the hypocrites of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

We and the United States were alone in voting against Friday’s UNHRC resolution that Israel be investigated for killing 62 Palestinians protesting at its border with Gaza. Sadly, 16 others, such as Britain, Germany and Japan, abstained or went missing rather than denounce the investigation as a fraud.

But worse, the remaining 29 members of this politically corrupt UN body voted “yes”.

In how many ways is this investigation a farce?

Firstly, who can take seriously a “human rights” council that includes dictatorships such as China and Cuba and Islamic autocrats such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates? Second, who can trust it when nine of its 47 members are Muslim-majority nations where defending Jews even from terrorists is unpopular, and several others have turbulent Muslim minorities? Third, who can trust anything the UN says about Israel, when Israel has been the target of 83 of 97 UN General Assembly resolutions passed in the four years to 2015 criticising specific countries?

Read the full article by Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun.