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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 01:39 PM
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16. I think there is no chance that the UN will hold the USA to the same standards as Israel...
Edited on Thu Sep-17-09 01:40 PM by LeftishBrit
apart from all other considerations: the USA is bigger and more powerful. Also, the Arab states within the UN tend to collaborate on criticizing Israel, if not always on other things.

However, your original implication was that no human rights organizations will criticize the USA as much as Israel, and I disagree with this. In fact, the USA generally gets more criticism, and I will go out on a limb and say that one reason why Israel gets as much criticism as it does is that it's seen as a close ally/collaborator of the USA.
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