Meanwhile in Syria

The number of dead in Syria’s civil war more than doubled in the past year to at least 191,000, the United Nations human rights office said Friday. The agency’s chief, Navi Pillay, bluntly criticized Western nations, saying their inaction in the face of the slaughter had “empowered and emboldened” the killers.

  NYT

I think she could say that about Israel, too. Oh, no. It’s not inaction in that case. It’s material support.

“Tragically, it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict,” Ms. Pillay said in a statement that accompanied the report, which observed that many killings in Syria were undocumented.

The report was confined to counting individuals who had been identified by name, along with the date and location of their death, using data from five organizations that was screened to avoid duplication. It did not include nearly 52,000 deaths that were recorded but lacked sufficient detail.

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Ms. Pillay expressed deep regret that “given the onset of so many other armed conflicts in this period of global destabilization, the fighting in Syria and its dreadful impact on millions of civilians has dropped off the international radar.”

It was “scandalous,” she said, that the enormity of the suffering in Syria no longer attracted much international attention.

We couldn’t get rid of Assad. It was becoming embarrassing. So we look elsewhere.

“There has not always been a firm and principled decision by members to put an end to crises. Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interest, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of — and long-term threats to — international peace and security,” Ms. Pillay told the Security Council.

Welcome to reality Ms. Pillay.

“I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this Council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. ”

Oh, I don’t think so. The U.S. and Israel happily ignore you.