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Thread #51523   Message #787114
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Sep-02 - 08:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq and War Part 6
Subject: RE: BS: Bush Iraq and War Part 6
And I was commenting on the curious way that some resolutions, and some human rights are seen as a lot more important than others, and some just don't get a look in.

On December 10th 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am pretty sure the United Sates voted for it.

Here is Article 13:

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

An article which has consistently been broken by the refusal of Israel to allow the refugees from the 1948 war to return back home. As it has been broken by a lot of other countries, including Iraq, and it's quite right to remind people of that, and to conbemn the Saddam regime. But it's a human right that is dismissed out of hand when kit comes to talking about Israel.

Double standards? Fragmented standards rather.