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{
"time": "2013-05-02 12:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. David Matas",
"fr": "M. David Matas"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3336626\" data-originallang=\"en\">In fact, as Stan Urman has mentioned, there have been quite a lot of resolutions passed about Palestinian refugees and none that have specifically mentioned Jewish refugees. There's Resolution 242 of the Security Council that is generic in nature and was purposefully intended to be generic and encompass both populations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336627\" data-originallang=\"en\">Unfortunately, what we've seen in the Middle East is not only the Arab League and Islamic Conference states, many of them engaged in military war against Israel, but an attempt to destroy the state of Israel by other means, through demonization and delegitimization. They often do that through using their voting power at the General Assembly, and in the specialized bodies.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336628\" data-originallang=\"en\">The UN Human Rights Council, since its inception replacing the commission, has had a majority of states from the Organization of Islamic Conference because they are a majority of each the regional blocs, of the African and Asian blocs, and those two blocs have a majority of the council.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336629\" data-originallang=\"en\">What we see is this endless parade of not just resolutions about Palestinian refugees, but condemnation of Israel for a wide variety of ways that are simply the continuation of the wars against Israel by other means.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Canada, when it was on the council, was frankly the only country in many cases that was voting against these resolutions and making statements about it. I think Canada now has an important and significant history to live up to in this area of standing up against the delegitimization of Israel.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Part of it is the focus on the Palestinian refugees as a victim population to the exclusion of Jewish refugees, which plays into this I would say false narrative of the Jews as perpetrators.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3336626\" data-originallang=\"en\">En fait, comme l'a dit Stan Urman, un assez grand nombre de r\u00e9solutions ont \u00e9t\u00e9 adopt\u00e9es au sujet des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s palestiniens, mais aucune ne faisait express\u00e9ment mention des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs. La r\u00e9solution 242 du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 est r\u00e9dig\u00e9 en termes g\u00e9n\u00e9riques, dans le but pr\u00e9cis d'englober les deux populations.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336627\" data-originallang=\"en\">Malheureusement, ce qu'on a constat\u00e9 au Moyen-Orient, c'est que non seulement de nombreux pays de la Ligue arabe et de la Conf\u00e9rence islamique ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 une lutte militaire contre Isra\u00ebl, mais aussi d'autres moyens sont employ\u00e9s pour d\u00e9truire l'\u00c9tat d'Isra\u00ebl, par la d\u00e9monisation et la d\u00e9l\u00e9gitimisation. Souvent, ils se servent de leur droit de vote \u00e0 l'Assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et au sein des organes sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9s.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336628\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies, depuis qu'il a remplac\u00e9 la commission, a en son sein une majorit\u00e9 de pays de l'organisation de la Conf\u00e9rence islamique parce qu'ils sont en majorit\u00e9 dans chacun des blocs r\u00e9gionaux, des blocs de l'Asie et de l'Afrique, et ce sont ces deux blocs qui ont la majorit\u00e9 au conseil.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336629\" data-originallang=\"en\">On assiste donc \u00e0 ce d\u00e9fil\u00e9 sans fin de r\u00e9solutions au sujet des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s palestiniens, mais aussi \u00e0 la condamnation d'Isra\u00ebl pour toutes sortes de raisons qui ne sont en fait que d'autres moyens de poursuivre la guerre contre Isra\u00ebl.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336630\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le Canada, quand il si\u00e9geait au conseil, \u00e9tait franchement le seul pays, dans bien des cas, \u00e0 voter contre ces r\u00e9solutions et \u00e0 faire des d\u00e9clarations \u00e0 leur sujet. Au moins, le Canada a beaucoup fait pour tenir t\u00eate aux autres pays qui cherchaient \u00e0 saper la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 d'Isra\u00ebl.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3336631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Leur d\u00e9marche consistait en partie \u00e0 se concentrer sur les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s palestiniens, les d\u00e9peignant comme une population victime de l'exclusion des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s juifs, ce qui s'ajoute, \u00e0 mon avis, aux faux arguments visant \u00e0 d\u00e9peindre les Juifs comme les agresseurs.</p>"
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