UN Watch - Israel singled out for permanent indictment!
Geneva, Sept. 20, 2007 — Today the UN Human Rights Council launched a new agenda item singling out Israel for permanent indictment. The debate allowed the Palestinian representative to take the floor and accuse Israel of “atrocities”, Syria to charge Israel with “Judaising” the Golan, and the Islamic group to protest Israel’s “entry of Syrian airspace.” Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement complained Israel was “excavating around the Al-Aqsa mosque.” Iran, Kuwait, Algeria, and Venezuela and others also joined in condemning the Jewish state.
When UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer spoke out in the council plenary against the biased agenda, Egyptian Ambassador Sameh Shoukry interrupted with objections. Israel and Syria then entered the fray, but finally UN Watch was allowed to finish
For the transcript see ‘The Agenda Item Targeting Israel‘.
Thanks go to UN Watch for the heads up on what happened in Geneva Recently.
That cursed Fig Tree!
Carla posted re words the other day and mentions a little something about what she calls the ‘fig tree atonement’. (We are currently bouncing ideas of one another it seems). As I read her post which says that she is soooo sick of all the re words like, re-imagine, re-invent, re-visit and many, many other re-words, she makes a point about these words just re-defining things and takes us back to the fig tree covering of good works that was tried in the garden and didn’t work.
These words are all just part of the fig leaf atonement.
Ways to get to God on their own.
Because they don’t want the animals skins or the sacrifice or the blood, it’s just so NOT green…so messy and cruel, so environmentally unfriendly, so politically incorrect. What’s with the blood, they say? So they sew together their own coverings.
When I read that I was instantly reminded of the cursed fig tree, you remember, the one that Jesus cursed because it would not bring forth fruit…
Mar 11:11-14 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple. And having looked around at all things, the hour already being late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve. And on the morrow, they going out from Bethany, He hungered. And seeing afar off a fig tree having leaves, He went toward it, if perhaps He would find anything on it. And coming on it, He found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season of figs. And answering, Jesus said to it, Let no one eat fruit of you any more to the age. And His disciples heard.
Mar 11:20-21 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”
