UN votes 90-8 to ask Hague court for opinion on fence

Ha'aretz ^ | Mon., December 08, 2003 Kislev 13, 5764 | Shlomo Shamir and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies

[yonif]

Other countries voting against the fence were Micronesia, Australia, Ethiopia, the Pacific islands of Nauru, Marshall Islands and Palau.

That's nice.

[yonif]

It only does it when UN offices are bombed - like in Iraq.

[samtheman]

We really should quit the UN. And kick them out of NY.

[SJackson]

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[O.C. - Old Cracker]

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[concerned about politics]

"This is an attempt... to delegitimize the right of the Jewish people to have a Jewish state that they can defend."

Israel should have never signed the Clinton contract to give up land for peace. Once Clinton got Israel to validate a Palistinian state through the Oslo Accords, it was all over for Israels future. They made a pact with the Devil.

[yonif]

Here are two things:

1. going to the Hague will be bad, because Israel will legitmize it as an institution by making its case. The reason is, that they will try to get Sharon on "war crimes" later on and then they will not be able to say its not a legitimate court.

2. Israel should build a wall around the Hague and send those terrorist Palestinian Arabs there.

[maryz]

Other countries voting against the fence were Micronesia, Australia, Ethiopia, the Pacific islands of Nauru, Marshall Islands and Palau.

That's nice.

I suspect this is wrong: These sound like the countries that have consistently voted with Israel. I'll bet these are the other countries voting against the resolution.

In fact, I looked back to the Jerusalem post story:

Ninety voted for the motion, eight against, including the United States, Israel, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Uganda and the Pacific islands Naui and Palau. Seventy-four abstained, including the members of the European Union.

[yonif]

I would not put Australia in that same boat or Ethiopia. However, Marshall Islands, Nauru and Palau, as well as Micronesia (I don't know why they didn't vote), usually vote with Israel.

[lonevoice]

"This is the fence that Arafat built"

[RobbyS]

Israel has little experience with the ICJ. It approached the court in 1957 to pursue a claim against Bulgaria, after an El Al plane was shot down over the Eastern bloc country two years earlier. But the case was dismissed because Bulgaria was not willing to accept the court's authority. No brainer. Israel need not play this game.

[Porterville]

I hope they vote it is bad so that Israel can give the Hague the middle finger, and prove the internationalist' irrelevance

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Opinions of the u.n.or the hague are NOT RELEVANT!This action is clearly anti-semetic.

[Onelifetogive]

Will some one .. any one tell WHY the UN is still around??

Their goal is to keep spending our money as long as we keep sending it.

[anotherview]

Australia, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Uganda, and the United States are the eight nations that voted against.

If the E.U. had shown a little backbone the vote would have been much closer. The idea that abstaining doesn't change anything is wrong and sends the message that the resolution isn't objectionable, which it clearly is.

The other nation that often votes with Israel is Fiji. I'm surprised to see they abstained. I would have been shocked if Ethiopia voted with Israel. They didn't.

[Stopislamnow]

Yep, I said something similar the other day.

Why does Israel keep kowtowing to people that hate thier guts?

They need to tell everyone who's agains't em to eat crow.

Then they need to do one of 3 things. 1. Obliterate the palestinian terrorists regardless of civilian arab casualties. 2. Drive em all arabs back to Jordan, including the ones in gaza. 3. Both of the above AND destroy Syria in a massive bombing campaign.

I mean it, who the hell they going to offend? The leftist media here who hate them anyway? The euros who hate them? The arabs who hate them? There's no one left to offend.

Israel is suicidal IMO, they need to bust some chops before IT happens again.

[NormsRevenge]

Courting Disaster in the New Age of InterNational Judicial Cooperation BumP

[Right Wing Professor]

Gee, I guess I must have missed the vote that the UN took re: condemning pali violence...

You must have been distracted by the flock of pigs flying overhead. It happened the same day.

[itsahoot]

And why not? Going to court to achieve what you can't legally, seems to work well here. Maybe they can get China to tear down the Great Wall, or maybe even that pitiful partial fence we put on our southern border.

To bad they never questioned the Berlin Wall.

[Salem]

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