Posted on 04/11/2011 9:49:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It was only a matter of time for the real reason behind the “right to protect” (R2P) principle the UN has adopted to become apparent.
The Arab League provides it in its appeal to the UN: The Arab League (AL) said on Sunday it would ask the United Nations to consider imposing a no-fly zone over the Gaza Strip to protect the civilians against Israeli air strikes.
In a statement issued after an emergency meeting of the pan- Arab organization at the permanent delegates’ level in its Cairo headquarter, the AL said it would ask the United Nation Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the Israeli aggression over Gaza to lift the siege and impose a no-fly zone against the Israeli military to protect civilians.
The statement rejected the double standard policies towards the Palestinian case, urging the UN Security Council and the Quartet committee to bear all responsibilities for halting the subsequent massacres and provide an international protection for the unarmed citizens.
Now, this shouldn’t have a chance since it takes a vote of the Security Council to pass something like this and the US, with a permanent seat, has the right to veto any resolution calling for such a measure.
And a few years ago I’d have had no worries about there even being a ghost of a chance of such a measure being agreed to by the US. I have no such assurance now with this administration. And don’t forget, they got the cooperation of the Security Council recently for the imposition of the Libyan NFZ, so they’ll be asked for cooperation on this – it’s the trap that may have been set from the outset.
Of course, unaddressed by the AL is the provocation for the latest round of air attacks from Israel by the terrorist group Hamas:
Violence in Gaza started when Hamas, which holds sway there, fired a rocket at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding a 16- year-old student. Hamas later said it did not know the bus was carrying students. Hamas more than “holds sway there” – Hamas “governs” there. What it continues to do is execute acts of war against Israel and then whines when Israel reacts. What the AL is doing is attempting to get the US to level the playing field and create better opportunities for Hamas to continue firing rockets into Israel. And, of course, brave Hamas always ensures it does its provocations from areas with high densities of civilians. And Hamas could give a rip whether there were students on the bus. Read the description again – it was a freakin’ school bus. What else did they expect to be on it?
Note too that the AL uses precisely the argument that I and others who wrote about the application of R2P said would happen. The citing of a “double-standard” (you’ll do Libya but not Gaza?). It’s nonsense on a stick, of course, because supposedly R2P is there to protect civilians from their own government, not another government retaliating against deadly attacks by their own government.
This again illustrates the danger of such “principles” as the UN’s R2P. It is now being considered a tool by the weak but tyrannical in an effort to downgrade the defensive abilities of Israel to protect itself.
I say give them the go-ahead and let the AL enforce the NFZ. It will be good for fighter jet sales as the IAF will scatter pieces and parts of the various AL air forces over the Gaza strip as a result.
I wonder if they’re aware that Israel can still reach anywhere inside Gaza from outside its airspace?
“the AL said it would ask the United Nation Security Council to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the Israeli aggression over Gaza to lift the siege and impose a no-fly zone against the Israeli military to protect civilians. “
Who is going to enforce it??? The Arabs are welcome to try because the Israeli Air Force could use the target practice. Come to think of it, Arab aircraft were mighty scarce in the no-fly zone against other Arabs in Libya.
This has always been on Samantha Power’s radar.
It is frightening that she is part of the West Wing.
The big question is who would enforce it. Certainly not any of the Arab league countries.
I’m sure they believe the IAF would meekly submit to such a restriction.Unless the USN is going to participate, the UN forces would have to fly out of Cyprus or Egypt. What UN member wants to see its AF demonstrably reduced in numbers?What part of “Masada shall not fall again” does the world not understand?
Future UN enforced No Fly Zones:
1) US/Mexican border
2) Alaskan/Russian border
3) US air force from flying within 100 miles of North Korea
4) US Air Force from flying 100 miles from Cuba
5) American City police forces from flying over neighborhoods containing a majority of ‘people of color’
6) US Air Force from flying in Persian Gulf
7) Any American airline flying within continental US( too much environmental damage)
8) US Coast guard patrolling off coast of Florida( allows unlimited Haitian immigrants)
It’s even more frightening that Barry Soertero is part of the West Wing.
Yes, good point.
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It WOULD be heartening to watch IDF forces destroy UN aggression forces...
"It is well established that the individual soldier has a legal and moral obligation NOT to follow “unlawful orders”. …509. Defense of Superior Orders … b. In considering the question whether a superior order constitutes a valid defense, the court shall take into consideration the fact that obedience to lawful military orders is the duty of every member of the armed forces; that the latter cannot be expected, in conditions of war discipline, to weigh scrupulously the legal merits of the orders received; that certain rules of warfare may be controversial; or that an act otherwise amounting to a war crime may be done in obedience to orders conceived as a measure of reprisal. At the same time it must be borne in mind that members of the armed forces are bound to obey only lawful orders (e. g., UCMJ, Art. 92)…."
This is why Ubama needs to be kicked out on his Ass as quickly as possible, I hope the American people are happy with the Antisemitic scumbag they put in the White Hut. What Ubama does here will speak volumes about the split here in the U.S.
There is a divide in America that cannot be fixed with the GOP winning the house, it runs deeper than that (sadly we are in the same state of two Americas we were in 1859)
G-D Help us, and Netzah
With the Libyan no-fly zone having gone so well, why shouldn’t they rush right into this one? /s
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