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The Simon Wiesenthal Center will hold a private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday to urge the international body to address suicide bombing and declare it a “crime against humanity.”

They will also call on Ban to cancel the “Durban II” conference slated for 2009, and address the “world’s amnesia” about rocket attacks on Sderot.

In a private meeting Tuesday, representatives from the Wiesenthal Center are expected to ask Ban to advocate for a special session of the General Assembly on suicide bombing and terrorism and reverse the Assembly’s longstanding refusal to raise the issue in its halls.

“The GA has had many special sessions on issues such as apartheid, drugs smuggling, disarmament, but the greatest scourge – suicide terror – is being blocked,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. “We know that 57 Muslim countries don’t want a meeting on it. But if you look at the world, it’s not only global warming threatening the fabric of civilization, but suicide terrorism.”

The Wiesenthal Center will also urge the secretary-general to cancel the Durban II conference scheduled for 2009, which many Jewish organizations fear will be a recap of the first conference held in South Africa in 2001 under the auspices of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. That conference was titled “The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,” but dealt mostly with Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Both Israel and the US eventually quit the conference.

“When will we see a Durban conference on the treatment of women in the Arab world, or the religious police in Saudi Arabia and Iran?” asked Hier. “To have a conference that focuses myopically on one country under the globe, that is a hate fest targeting the same people as the Holocaust, is unacceptable.”

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Efter mødet udtalte FN’s Generalsekretær: UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN ON SUICIDE TERROR: “TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN KILLED … AN UNACCEPTABLE POLITICAL WEAPON”

57 muslimske lande er ikke flertallet i FN. Hvem hjælper dem? Og kommer der noget ud af initiativet?