AP Photo/Lefteris PitarakisPalestinian soccer players practice near Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on Tuesday.
AP Photo/Lefteris PitarakisPalestinian soccer players practice near Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank town of Abu Dis on Tuesday.
I expect you've seen this bit of insanity, but just in case.
Unbelievable, freaking unbelievable to see a UN that will not even allow a country to protect itself with a fence much less military force.
What do they want them to do, kill themselves.
Idiot UN
Perhaps Israel can provide their masonry services along our southern border.
Come to think of it, our northern border could also use some help.
The Arabs wanted the text to authorize killing the Jews and taking their possessions.
The Europeans wanted the text to authorize taking the Jews' possessions first and killing them afterwards.
They compromised with text that authorizes either.
Palestinian U.N. observer Nasser al-Kidwa (R) looks up at the voting board at the United Nations (news - web sites) General assembly in New York on July 20, 2004. The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to demand that Israel obey a World Court ruling and tear down its West Bank barrier. The vote in the 191-nation assembly was 150-6, with 10 abstentions. (Chip East/Reuters)
What's funny - I actually find it funny, in a tragic way - is that this type of thing gets reported with a straight face.
Look, even if this passage is true, the "land grab" occurred back in 1967. Yes, Israel took that land. In a war. That kind of thing tends to happen in wars. (Which Israel didn't even start, in this case.) Now they are building a fence around that land, which they took (in a war - as happens in wars), to protect the people living in their country (which, yes, now includes that additional land, that they took (in a war (which tends to happen to the victor in a war))).
The Palestinian position is and has always been that they want that land "back". Well, fight a war and take it back you idiots. Otherwise SHUT THE HELL UP because I'm sick and tired of hearing about you.
But by calling Israel defending land it already took a "land grab", what the UN is effectively on the record here saying is that they are rooting for the Palestinians to finish and win the 1967 Israeli-Arab war. Whether or not they realize it.
And this resolution should be viewed accordingly.
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.
I say, move the wall out as far as the border with Egypt, Syria, Lebanon etc.
Now THAT would be an Israel! Oh yeah, capital Jeruselem!
The United States and Israel = 2
Who were the other 4?
BTW--proud of our (US) vote!
Good reason to leave it in place.
Actually, this is one of those problems that do not allow half-answers. To do too little is suicide.
Israel must choose a defensible border, and seal it. This is what they have done with the erection of the wall, and nothing short of this will work. It has the effect of freeing them from constant attacks that have killed so many.
It has the secondary effect of turning the arabs inward on themselves, and hurrying the collapse of the west bank experiment. An isolated, autonomous arab west bank cannot work, and can't be anything other than what it has been, a lawless enclave. An arab west bank cut off from Israeli jobs, Israeli markets, and without Israel as the focus of its rage is a west bank that must implode, and that is what we are seeing.
By definition, jewish palestine is Israel, and arab palestine is Jordan. That land that is not claimed and defended by Israel is Jordan. Cut off from Israel by their own actions, the west bank arabs have no future except to look toward Jordan. Jordan is their future. There will never be an independent West Bank.
Build that wall!
"U.N. resolution directs Israel to remove barrier"
Israel Knesset directs the 150 affirmative voting nations to pull out of New York and set up their anti-semetic $hit in some backwater country such as Swaziland...let the diplomats have fun buggying down the streets paved with manure instead of living high on the hog along the lights of Broadway.
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.
The UN is not empowered to direct...traffic.
is there any way to ship out the UN to Mexico where they wont be as much leeches/parasites on the US taxpayers?
