Is The UN Biased Against Israel?

Mona Charen's article "Camera-Ready Victims" appearing in the January 16, 2009 National Review cites these statistics regarding UN resolutions for human rights violations.  In 2008:

==> 68% targeted Israel

==> 4% targeted Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the United States, and a few others.

==> 0% targeted Russia, Sudan, China, and Saudi Arabia which is interesting because Russia is home to Chechnya and Sudan is home to Darfur.

Ms. Charen also cites the number of refugees killed around the world which places the above in context:

"Since the start of 2007, 16,000 civilians have been killed in fighting. Not in Gaza, so you may have missed it. It was in Somalia, where an Islamist movement is fighting Ethiopian troops. This is the 18th year of civil strife in that country."

"In Sri Lanka, some 70,000 people have perished in a civil war that has flared on and off since 1983. The regime in Burma has killed thousands and forced an estimated 800,000 into involuntary servitude."

"In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), 45,000 people are dying every month. Nearly 5.5 million have died since 1998 in a conflict that grew out of the violence in Rwanda and spread. Half of those deaths were of children under the age of five, according to the International Rescue Committee. The violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has caused more human devastation than any conflict since World War II."

"In Darfur, Sudan, more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million made homeless by violence."

As Ms Charen points out the world is indeed strange in the tragedies it selects and responds to.

The complete article:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmU0ZjM4NmQyYTZlZjk4NTQ2ZTYzNGI0NWFhM2M4ZGQ=