Palestinian Terrorists Continue Claiming Victims

Once again, Palestinian terrorists will be dancing in the streets because they managed to kill Israelis in their latest mortar barrages.

One man was killed, two others were seriously wounded and a fourth suffered light wounds noontime Thursday when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip hit a factory in the western Negev kibbutz of Nir Oz.

Hours later, Palestinian doctors said a six-year-old girl was killed and her mother wounded in an IAF air strike in the Gaza Strip. The army said it had attacked and hit a gunman.

Who are we supposed to believe, between Palestinian doctors who claim that everyone they see is a victim of Israeli actions, or the IDF, who targets terrorists who hide behind civilians? The blame for casualties on both sides rests with the terrorists - and Hamas in particular because they continue to condone the war against Israel.

Meanwhile, the UN, in its usual actions, may strip the World Union of Progressive Judaism, the umbrella organization of reform Judaism of its observer status for having the audacity of attempting to read the Hamas Charter at the UN.

Cuba requested the revocation of the union's status following a Human Rights Council session in Geneva in January titled "Human Rights Violations Emanating from Israeli Military Incursions in the Occupied Territories," where, in protest at the session's exclusive focus on Israel, World Union representative David Littman tried to read passages from the Hamas charter calling for the destruction of Israel.

Littman was interrupted three times by the presiding officer on the grounds that Hamas's ideology was not the topic before the council. Before he took his seat, Littman told the presiding officer that "something is rotten in the state of this council."

This statement led to complaints largely from Muslim countries that the UN had been insulted by the Reform representative. The World Union was informed of the initiative at the NGO committee last Thursday, and given a week to prepare its response.

Observer status allows an NGO's representatives to enter UN institutions, and observe and speak at its meetings.

Jewish organizations and Reform Movement representatives have been meeting with diplomats from the 19 countries on the NGO Committee in the past few days in an effort to convince them to reject the initiative.

Considering who is involved in these panels, the likelihood of the Jewish organization losing this battle is pretty good.

It's yet another damning indictment of the UN and its failures to adhere to its own principles.