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Posted on 07/20/2004 5:28:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel comply with a world court decision and tear down the barrier it is building to seal off the West Bank. The vote was 150 in favor, 6 opposed - including the United States - and 10 abstentions.
The assembly's vote, like the opinion of the International Court of Justice, is not legally binding, but both have symbolic value as international statements of condemnation for the barrier.
The 191-member world body voted after lengthy negotiations between the Arab League and the European Union which resulted in a revised text that was accepted by both groups.
The court, as well as the resolution, demand that the barrier be dismantled and reparations be paid to Palestinians harmed by its construction.
Israel has refused to recognize the world court ruling, saying it has no authority to deal with the issue and has ordered construction to go on.
The Israeli Supreme Court, however, has ordered the army to change the route of the barrier in a 20-mile stretch near Jerusalem, saying it was causing too much hardship on the local Palestinian population.
Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman called the resolution "one-sided and totally counterproductive" and said construction of the barrier will continue in compliance with the requirements of international law as decided by Israel's Supreme Court.
"It is simply outrageous to respond with such vigor to a measure that saves lives and responds with such casual indifference and apathy to the ongoing campaign of Palestinian terrorism that takes lives. This is not justice but a perversion of justice," he said.
The Palestinians say the current route of the wall amounts to a land grab, because parts of the barrier are being built on West Bank land that Israel conquered in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel says the fence is needed to keep out suicide bombers.
The EU and the UN are traveling at warp speed into a galaxy called Irrelevance.
I hear the UN will soon be voting on a similar resolution pertaining to China's great wall. These people are so transparently anti-Israel, they make the aryan nation look moderate by comparison. Why doesn't the UN come right out and say that any measure Israel takes to defend itself and its citizens will be condemned? I hope Sharon and the Israelis stand firm and don't cave in to these jokers in the UN.
I'm guessing maybe the Aussies, as far as the other 3 I'm not certain.
The UN is not empowered to direct...traffic.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The UN must be relocated to France where it belongs. It doesn't belong in America.
The fence protects the lives of innocents, and that is enough of a reason for its being.
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Israel will tell the UN to take a hike. Israel has every right in the world to protect it's citizens from the rabid mooselems. President Bush, please send the UN and it's commies packing to Europe. "Don't Tread On Us" Bush/Cheney 2004
is there any way to ship out the UN to Mexico where they wont be as much leeches/parasites on the US taxpayers?
Yes, in that Israeli masons have this tendency to build walls miles into territory that does not belong to them -- our southern border would end up going through Mexico City.
So you're saying that land that Israel acquired defending itself in a war which it did not start ... does not belong to them (Israel) ?
Not to worry - Israel has at least 16 years to conform unless America makes them. Don't quite believe America will take up that battle.
Correct. And they know it.
No, in 1923 they were ceded for Jewism immigration. To wit:
"Article 7.
"The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine."
"(T)he 1922 White Paper written by Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill declared that Palestine should not be "as Jewish as England is English". This was allegedly to prevent partitioning the land into two (Arab and Jewish)."
-- unitedjerusalem.com
You know what? I bet you knew this already, didn't you?
I would direct the UN to shi'ite in their hat.
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