Jews "Harassing" Terrorists

You would think the UN would have other important things to occupy their time such as genocide in Darfur, a burgeoning oil for food scandal, rape of women and children they are supposed to protect and Iran about to go nuclear, but no. You see, more important than all those events is Jewish "harassment" of Palestinians:

Jewish settlers are terrorizing Palestinians with impunity, attacking children on their way to school and destroying farmers' trees and crops, a U.N. expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict said in a report.

John Dugard, a South African lawyer, called the withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip last summer a positive step. But the Jewish state effectively controls Gaza through targeted killings and sonic booms from warplanes flying over the region, Dugard said in a report prepared ahead of next week's annual meeting of the 53-member U.N. Human Rights Commission.

Do you copy that? This South African lawyer--a man from a country that was the epitome of apartheid less than a generation ago--is in a tizzy because Israeli's are eliminating known terrorists and flying too fast.

Wait, it gets better (or worse):

Israel has previously rejected Dugard's reports on the Palestinian-Israeli dispute as being one-sided, noting that he has been assigned only to investigate violations by the Israeli side.

Dugard said settler violence has been particularly egregious in the West Bank city of Hebron. His 22-page report made no reference to Palestinian terrorism, but said Hebron settlers "terrorize the few Palestinians that have not left the old city and assault and traumatize children on the way to school."

Let's all just forget about those little inconveniences the Palestinians cause like suicide bombings targeted at civilians and the launching od rockets into civilian areas. I feel bad for the "traumatized" children of the Palestinians but isn't this and this much more traumatizing to the innocent PA children than a few loud airplanes?

"It seems that settlers are able to terrorize Palestinians and destroy their trees and crops with impunity," Dugard said, adding that he himself was a victim of settler abuse while visiting the city in June 2005.

What did they do to abuse you, Mr. Dugard? Perhaps they heckled you about the Racism Conference in Durbin--your home country--in 2001 in which a mockery was made of the anti-racism message and forced Colin Powell to boycott it because it was essentially an anti-Israel conference.

Dugard prepares regular reports for the U.N.'s human rights watchdog during visits to the region, but receives no cooperation from the Israeli government.

I would imagine he receives no cooperation because his past reports have all been slams at Israel. Note that the first link is to the far, far left website Common Dreams who endorses the anti-Semitism the report represents.

Dugard said Israel's actions in Gaza violated the Geneva Conventions on warfare, which forbid "all measures of intimidation or of terrorism" against civilians in time of war.

In the first three months after the Gaza withdrawal, targeted assassinations by Israeli defense forces in the territory killed 18 civilians and injured 81, in addition to killing 15 militants.

Palestinians have launched rockets from Gaza against southern Israeli towns, and Israel has retaliated with artillery fire and airstrikes.

Let's look at how many Israeli's were killed over the last five years broken down by civilians and combatants compared to the Palestinians. As you can see by the graphs at the ICT site, you are being intellectually dishonest in the extreme, Mr. Dugard.

Thanks to the San Francisco Chronicle for carrying this loaded AP piece. I've learned to expect nothing less.