House of Representatives passes resolution calling on UN Security Council to punish Iranian president for statements made regarding destruction of IsraelWASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the UN Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating international laws pertaining to genocide by calling for the destruction of Israel.
Written after the Holocaust, the UN Genocide Convention defines the act of genocide as, among other things, the act of killing members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the targeted group. It also however prohibits conspiracy to commit genocide, as well as "direct and public incitement to commit genocide." A majority of 411 members of congress voted in favor of taking Ahmadinejad's to court for his statements, agreeing that they fell under the prohibited actions detailed in the UN's Genocide Convention. Two representatives voted against calling on the UN to take such action.
| Take him to court. Boy howdy that'll do it. Feel safer already. |
As a Member State, says the House resolution, Iran is signatory to the United Nations Charter which specifies in Article 2, Section 4 that all Member States must "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."
The resolution then quotes the statements made by Ahmadinejad on October 27, 2005, in which he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map," described Israel as "a disgraceful blot (on) the face of the Islamic world," and declared that "anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury."
| He said that back in 2005. What took you guys so long -- had to form a study commission? Where's the sternly-worded demarche? |
The House resolution also noted the financial and training support Iran openly provides organizations like Hamas, Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad, among others – all terror organizations whose charters call for the destruction of Israel.
| Not that the Dhimmicrats would actually do anything about this. Other than a resolution. |
Everybody knows that UN would do no such thing as punish Ahmadinutjob. But perhaps this is a prep screen for something else.