Did you know?
- the right to food is a basic human right as well as a basic human need?
"freedom from want" (which included the right to food) was first coined by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1941?
the right to food is recognized directly or indirectly by all countries in the world, to some degree or another?
States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have a legally binding obligation to take steps to respect, protect, facilitate and fulfil the right to food?
all human rights - civil, cultural, economic, political and social are indivisible, interdependent, interrelated, mutally supportive and equally important?
Huh???
Did you know that the United Nations has a "Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food?"
Did you know that he visited Israel this past July?
And, can you believe it? He found that Israel is violating the Right to Food.
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations has assailed Israel over food shortages in Palestinian areas while holding back from being equally blunt with Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean President, whose policies are widely considered to have exacerbated Southern Africa's famine threat.
In a report leaked before being customarily shown to the Israelis, Jean Ziegler, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the right to food, charges that Israeli security measures in the West Bank and Gaza have caused the humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians.
[No part of which could possibly be related to the theft of millions of dollars and direct food aid by their so-called "leadership?"]
The report is silent on Israel's contention the security measures are part of its bid to stop suicide bombers, but clear in saying Israel should withdraw to the borders it had before the 1967 Six-Day War.
Its political posturing contrasts sharply with how the World Food Program, a UN agency, has presented the causes of food shortages in Zimbabwe.
Oh! A double standard! Quelle surprise!! This excellent article at Canada.com cuts cleanly through all the crap. Read the whole thing.
