Ziegler - The Man From U.N.S.R.R.F. (*)

(* UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food)
As I've commented recently, Jean Ziegler is a man with a mission. Wether the mission was the reason for his joining the UN (best place on earth if you want to destroy Israel), or he became infected on the job is no longer relevant.

What matters is that UN Watch has discovered some intriguing 'coincidences' in the timing of Ziegler's actions against Israel.

The truth about Ziegler, as a simple Google search will reveal, is that his "right to food" activities are in fact initiated as part of orchestrated political campaigns. Not coincidentally, Ziegler, who resides in Switzerland, sent his May 2004 boycott letter to Caterpillar three days after a political "action" notice was issued against this corporation by "Collectif Urgence Palestine" - a Swiss group, dedicated to boycotting Israel, with which Mr. Ziegler has been active. Mr. Ziegler's letter was then promptly posted on the website of this group's boycott campaign. How many other boycott letters Ziegler has sent is a mystery. Their target is not.

Apart from these transparent orchestration, what evidence is there that Ziegler is biased against Israel?

When he should be speaking out for the hungry of Burundi, Chad, or Liberia - places that actually do rank as Food Emergencies - Ziegler is instead preoccupied with vilifying Israel for, as he puts it, starving the Palestinians. His accusations will resonate with certain audiences. Yet it carries one minor flaw: whatever genuine problems do exist in the West Bank and Gaza, starvation is simply not one of them. In fact, by any comparative measure, Palestinians are eating far better than neighboring populations. If one looks at the percentage of underweight children - the most meaningful cross-country comparable indicator - the UN's 2003 Human Development Report reports that the West Bank and Gaza has the lowest rate
(3%) compared with any state in the Arab Middle East, East Asia, the Pacific, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America (except Chile). Yet a country like North Korea (60%) has never been targeted by a single Ziegler boycott letter.

Not that any evidence was needed anymore: From Ziegler's hysteria it is clear that this creature (almost called him a man, go figure!) is driven by something - and zeal doesn't quite cover it.