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Gentleman's Agreement at the UN
(Globe and Mail - Canada) Anne Bayefsky - This year's General Assembly, which ended on Friday, marked a new low in UN bias against Jews and the Jewish state. The number of General Assembly resolutions directed at Israel this year reached 20. Human-rights situations in the rest of the world drew only six country-specific resolutions. The General Assembly adopted a resolution on Palestinian children - the only children in the world subject to such concern. More than 100 Israeli children have been murdered and 900 wounded or maimed in the past two years alone. The General Assembly resolution, however, neither expressed concern nor made any mention of Israeli children. For the past four years, a racism resolution has included "anti-Semitism" as a specific subject of study of the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. This year, the reference to anti-Semitism as part of the rapporteur's mandate was deleted. After October's hostage-taking crisis in Moscow, the Security Council adopted a resolution condemning the terrorist attack within 24 hours. In the case of the bombing in Bali, the Security Council adopted a resolution within 48 hours. But it took the council two weeks of intensive negotiation to adopt a resolution concerning the attacks in Kenya.