UN Up To The Usual Dirty Tricks

It's Passover and the UN is up to its usual tricks. They're considering yet another resolution denouncing Israel, and Israel's diplomats are not in the house because they're celebrating the holiday of Passover. Oh, and Ambassador Bolton rocks for shedding light on the absolute nuttiness of the UN and its treatment of Israel:

As consultations began, Mr. Bolton asked for what he later described as "consistency about observing religious holidays." He said that he was told that "we work on everybody's religious holidays." From now on, he said, "never again can anybody say, 'But it's a religious holiday, therefore I can't work.'"

Which holidays are observed by the United Nations "is something which is decided every year," said French ambassador Jean Marc de la Sabliere, adding that the United Nations cannot afford to stop work" whenever there is a religious feast" anywhere around the world.

The Israeli diplomat said that the issue is not working days, but a council meeting that specifically had to do with Israel. Two years ago, after a flare up on the Syrian-Israeli border, a more acute open meeting of the council took place on the eve of Yom Kippur, the diplomat noted. Ambassador Dan Gillerman had to deliver a speech, and after making special arrangement to schedule the speech early, he literally ran out of Turtle Bay just before sundown, when Jewish observance begins.

"The essence of Jewish holidays would require a moral basis," said the Palestinian Arab observer, Mr. Mansour. "These are holy days for Muslims, Jews, and Christians. And the tradition we are familiar with, during religious holidays there should not be killing of civilian and innocent individuals."

The Islamic terrorists have no concern for holidays - they've routinely used the Muslim holiday of Ramadan to slaughter hundreds of fellow Muslims and there is nary a word. And the Muslims had no problems launching the 1973 war on Yom Kippur either. That was a war to destroy Israel once and for all, and it very nearly succeeded because Israel chose not to anticipate the impending attack despite the signs that the Egyptians and Syrians were preparing to strike.