Oy.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A week after Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack, a Jewish human rights group has taken out a full page ad in the New York Times on Friday demanding that the United Nations formally address suicide bombings.

The ad by the Los Angeles based Simon Rosenthal Center features a picture of Bhutto beneath the words "SUICIDE TERROR: What more will it take for the world to act?" and calls on the United Nations for a special session devoted to the issue.

"Unless we put suicide bombing on the top of the international community's agenda, this virulent cancer could engulf us all," it reads. "The looming threat of WMDs in the hands of suicide bombers will dwarf the casualties already suffered in 30 countries."

In the ad, which will also run in the International Herald Tribune, The Simon Rosenthal Center also calls on the United Nations to declare suicide bombings "crimes against humanity."{...}

Ummm, dude, I don't quite know how to tell you this, but the UN regularly has trouble "defining" genocide---to conveniently avoid sending peace keepers to regions without a requisite Four Seasons resort and spa nearby (with lots of young girls to rape)---and regularly puts the worst human rights abusers on its Human Rights Council. Sure, if a suicide bomber were to disturb the liquor and Beluga deliveries to UN headquarters, then you might have a chance of getting it on the agenda. But as it currently stands? Nope.

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