Friday, December 22, 2006

Holiday spirit at United Nations

(It’s as good a time as any to re-post this article from the 2003 Xmas season)

While this is allegedly the time of year when humans allegedly show more kindness, you can always count on god’s country and the Holy (sic) Land to keep things in cynical perspective. Over the past three decades years, the United States and Israel have a UN voting record in the month of December that effectively demonstrates their political philosophies and firmly establishes them as the two most hypocritical nations on the planet.

A major chunk (but not all) of Ward Churchill’s essential book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, is a comprehensive list of the U.S. voting record, re: UN resolutions. The list falls under the heading of “A Government of Laws?” and it’s instructive to recognize how often the only two nations voting “no” on a given resolution are Israel and the U.S...especially during the so-called holiday season.

Read the full holiday article here

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