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Anti-Semitism on Radio National : Comments

By David Knoll, published 17/5/2005

David Knoll argues Radio National was airing anti-Semitic views when Jews were commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation from death camps.

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Ranier noted: "But citing international law in this country is as useful as backing England in a test match. Its just not seen as relevant and or 'Australian' . Sad but true."

Quite sad and quite true, but it's a situation that needs to struggled against:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3418
(The US, Australia and South Africa were the only nations that) voted against a resolution on human rights and transnational corporations (TNCs) adopted by the UN Commission on Human Rights (CHR).

Australia has often siding with the US to oppose a resolution that represented by and large an international consensus on an important issue.

More often than not, human rights become an issue for the US and Australia only when they are likely to promote the interests of their businesses, but not otherwise. It is hypocritical for the US and Australia to decry the abuses of other countries when their own corporations violate these same human rights in the backyards of developing countries. This selective reliance on the slogan of human rights only demonstrates that there is a difference in how people’s lives are valued across the world. Aparently, whether human rights and their violations are to be taken seriously or not depends on whose human rights are violated and by whom.

Australia regularly and mindlessly votes with the US in the UN General Assembly to shield Israel from criticism for human rights abuses. They are often joined by Nauru, Guam, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands to vote against UN Resolutions even when almost the whole of the rest of the international community supports the resolution. This was the case in the resolution supporting the ruling of the International Court of Justice that the construction by Israel of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and its associated régime are contrary to international law. Apart from this ocurring innumeral times in the General Assembly the United States has cast its veto 40 times to shield Israel from Security Council draft resolutions that condemned, deplored, denounced, demanded, affirmed, endorsed, called on and urged Israel to obey the world body. They are listed at:
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/May-June_2005/0505014.html
Posted by RayBer, Friday, 24 June 2005 12:10:47 PM
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Well, the USSR did everything opposite, and really oppressed Jews even at then local level there had got higher education degrees and professional careers.

Free and democratic, as it told from inside, Australia provides a different politics towards the Middle Eastern issues-and it is more easy for some local Jews become the World Bank director, than get qualifications and being locally employed out of own
c o m m u n i t y….

Which stuff is better ?
Posted by MichaelK., Saturday, 2 July 2005 7:40:07 AM
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