UN, WHO hypocrisy shown against Israel

CYNICISM masquerading as humanitarianism and compassion is alive and well in the highest echelons of the UN. It reveals a self-imposed blindness bolstered by lies and distortions to underpin the wild assertions to vilify and condemn Israel.

The World Health Organization, (WHO), to its discredit, becomes a standard-bearer for hypocrisy and lies. At its annual assembly they deviated from their focus on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic by holding a four-hour session focused on condemning Israel by some 30 delegations, including Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Malaysia, Lebanon and Venezuela, allegedly for violating the health rights of Palestinians and Syrians in the Golan Heights.

They claim the moral high ground to which their own behaviour does not conform.

There was no agenda item or resolution on any other country or conflict – not on Syria, who slaughtered over 500 000 of its own people, where hospitals and other medical infrastructure are repeatedly and deliberately bombed by Syrian forces; not on war-torn Yemen, where 14 million are in dire need of health assistance; and not on Iran, whose surrogates, Hezbollah, caused an explosion that killed over 200 and injured many more; nor on any of these countries where the health systems are in a state of collapse and millions of people are in need of humanitarian assistance.

All this against the backdrop of Israel’s humanitarian efforts to bring the very best of medical aid even to countries that slander her.

Despite the conflict, Israel grants entry to tens of thousands of Palestinians who receive top-level medical care at Israeli hospitals.

Israeli medical teams co-ordinate with Palestinian medical professionals to provide training and assistance. Israel transfers medical equipment and has trained dozens of Palestinian doctors, nurses and medical personnel from Gaza.

The cynicism of WHO is mindblowing.

RODNEY MAZINTER | Camps Bay