Anti-Israel ‘Double Standard’ at the UN: Why No Condemnation of Other Occupations and Settlements?

[shira]

...It is Article 49(6) of the Geneva Conventions that is most often cited in international condemnation of Israeli policies. That article states that an “Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Yet while Israel has been reminded in condemnatory U.N. resolutions of its obligations under the Geneva Conventions about 500 times since 1967, Kontorovich found, in all other seven cases that had occurred a total of just two times.

In fact, the study found that no U.N. body has ever invoked Article 49(6) specifically in relation to any of the seven other cases.

And in all seven of those cases, settlement activity has taken place – often on a larger scale than in the Israel/Palestinian case, and involving “far-reaching demographic and economic consequences for the occupied population,” the study found.

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/anti-israel-double-standard-un-why-no-condemnation-other-occupations

[shira]

1. More from OP...

Russian settlements get a pass

Kontorovich says his study is the first to examine Russia’s settlement polices in the parts of Ukraine and Georgia which it occupies.

It found, for example, that some 50,000 outsiders have settled in Crimea in the first two years of Russian occupation, roughly half of them Russians, the rest from other post-Soviet states or third countries. There are also efforts to force non-Russian minorities, including Ukrainians and Tartars, to leave Crimea.

“A very significant number of settlers have been moving to Crimea, attracted in part by Russian economic incentives. There is also a not particularly successful, but highly deliberate, settlement enterprise in occupied Georgia,” the study found. “Both of these enterprises appear to involve purposeful efforts to change the demographic composition of the territory.”

“Neither of these efforts has attracted any international interest or scrutiny, despite the high profile of the occupations within which they take place,” it said. “None of these efforts have been described as an Art. 49(6) violation by an actor outside the occupied states [Georgia and Ukraine].”

[ret5hd]

2. So they're using the "Billys mom let him do it!!!" excuse.

[whatthehey]

3. Except they have the same "mom" in the UN

[shira]

4. Why the U.N.’s Israel obsession should worry even people who don’t care about Israel

Turtle Bay’s focus on one country has apparently robbed it of the ability to address the world’s many situations of occupation and settlements. This shows the double role of the scapegoat: It does not just get all the blame, but it also effectively absolves others. The U.N.’s blindness to settlements around the world is actually the flip side of its focus on Israel.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134132730

[aranthus]

5. That assumes that people care

The fact that the UN i made to whitewash every other relevant example, and most injustice in the world, is pretty good evidence that they don't. It isn't that the world cares about settlements, occupations, or most of the injustice going on today. It's just that those are convenient barbs to hook Israel with on behalf of the world's oil producing countries.