UN human rights inquiry: Israel should compensate Lebanon

[Scurrilous]

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"A United Nations human rights inquiry said on Friday that Israel should be made to pay compensation for damage caused by the month-long Lebanon, especially losses incurred by civilians.

It suggested setting up an international compensation program similar to the one which has paid out billions of dollars to cover losses due to Iraq's 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

But the three-member commission of inquiry left any decision to the UN Human Rights Council.

"It should consider creation of a commission competent to examine individual claims for reparations and compensation...," commission member Joao Clemente Baena Soares told a briefing.

"If the council, the international community, wishes to set up a mechanism, I remind you that the Security Council established a commission on Iraqi reparations for Kuwait. Why not also a commission for Lebanon?" commission member Stelios Perrakis told reporters."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795327.html

[Tom Joad]

1. And US taxpayers should get their money returned. No more funding wars of

aggression!

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

2. Amazing

Nothing would have happened if Hezbollah hadn't started indiscriminantly sending rockets into Israel, but I guess since Hezbollah has no recognized government that can be sanctioned, Israel must be made out to be the bogeyman in this one.

Glad to see the UN hasn't changed.

DBDB

[IntiRaymi]

6. Fascinating!

More disregard for the lives of those lebanese that perished at the hands of that stupid israeli overreaction.

Glad to see these attitudes unchanged.

[msmcghee]

3. Because Iraq attacked and occupied Kuwait.

It was Hisb'allah that attacked Israel. Israel stopped their defensive operations when the rockets stopped crossing the border.

That's why this will go nowhere. It's just another anti-Israel maneuver that the UN HRC is now famous for.

[cali]

4. The U.N. Human Right Council

is a sad joke. Note that I did not say that the UN is, but that the Council is, is indisputable.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. What a shocker! NOT!

This Council just keeps pushing the envelope.