"When something of that scale occurs and it is occurring in real time... it is important to be present and to investigate"
After October 7th, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, funded her own trip to Israel to witness and document the horrors of Hamas's massacre.
For some reason, her instincts weren't shared by other UN officials.
"I understand I’m the only Special Rapporteur who has ever requested to go to the Israeli mission to see the video and the documented evidence," she said at a recent event.
From what she witnessed, she crafted a letter about Hamas's crimes on October 7th. But: "There was a campaign to prevent that letter from going out. There were weeks of being bullied and deterred from writing it and telling me that everything in it was false."
Edwards was forced to edit the letter, even though it was based on her own research. "The letter shrank considerably."
In the end, she said, "it was only signed by the Special Rapporteur on summary extrajudicial killings and me," she said.
She said the "Rapporteur" position at the UN is being abused: "In the past we were this agile group forty years ago or thirty years ago of people that were supposed to be able to react actively and quickly to various issues that are going on in the world. Now we are being pushed to coordinate amongst one another."
"Authoritarian and totalitarian governments don’t like the special rapporteurs, so they have created their own special rapporteurs and they fund them," she said.
"We all want the UN to be a robust but also honest and objective body and if it can’t do the job, then maybe we do need to start thinking about what replaces it. That is a very worrying scenario."
Reporting Credit: @JewishChron
@AhmedAAshour8@GCMercier I suspect they would not lodge in a child's head which kind of proves how ridiculous the stories of bullets embedded in skulls are. Even the most gullible useful idiot must be able to work that out!
But there's not much thought or rationality in these strings.
@NahFiasco@OsherFeldman And I've just calculated that the moon is definitely made of cheese and Twitter if full of irrational Jew haters who lap stuff like this up all day.
@cog_niti2@OsherFeldman Where you've never been and drink in all the propaganda that feeds your sanctimonious bigotry. What a useless scrote you must be!
@youtube1519565@OsherFeldman How'd you feel if someone blew your stupid head off or raped your wife or daughter and said they'd do it again and again. Would you respond 'proportionately' or would you fight to make sure they could never repeat it? WTF is wrong with people like you 🤔
@ArthurAssendune@OsherFeldman I often wonder how people presumably otherwise well balanced can't get their heads round Israel's reality. Attacked from multiple enemies and retaliating to protect her people. Are they ill informed, stupid, bigoted or all 3 🤔
@IhabHassane I've watched it a couple of times and think you're wrong. There were thousands of obviously Jewish settlers damaging an obviously Arab car. It's GENOCIDE