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US vetoes UN ceasefire call
The Australian ^ | July 16, 2006 | Irwin Arieff

Posted on 07/15/2006 6:06:26 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

THE UN Security Council has again rejected pleas that it call for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon after the United States objected, diplomats said overnight.

Washington argued in closed-door talks that the focus for Middle East diplomacy for now should be on the weekend summit in St Petersburg of the Group of Eight industrialised nations, council diplomats said.

It was the sole member of the 15-nation UN body to oppose any council action at all at this time, they said.

"We would expect much more from the Security Council," Lebanese Foreign Ministry official Nouhad Mahmoud told reporters after the council meeting, singling out the United States for blame.

While Washington has been very supportive of the Lebanese government in the past, "when it comes to Israel, it seems things changed," Mr Mahmoud said. "Destruction is still going on, people are still dying ... and here we are impotent."

The council planned another discussion of the conflict on Monday, and hoped to soon begin work on a "substantive" response to the conflict, said French UN Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, the council president for July.

The Monday meeting would be the council's third since Hezbollah guerrillas crossed over into Israel last week and captured two Israeli soldiers, triggering an intensifying military response by Israeli forces that has been met with a steady rain of Hezbollah missiles into northern Israel.

On Thursday, the Lebanese government called on the Security Council to adopt a resolution imposing a cease-fire.

The plea was renewed on Saturday by Qatar, the council's sole Arab member.

Separately, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured the United Nations that Israeli forces would not interfere in a plan by UN peacekeepers to move Lebanese villagers living along the border with Israel out of the line of fire, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno said.

Mr Olmert's assurances came in a Saturday telephone call to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Guehenno said.

Israel's Northern Command had previously warned UN peacekeepers to keep out of a zone several miles wide running along the Lebanese side of the border, he said.

Such an order would have been "impossible to comply with, unacceptable," Mr Guehenno said.

Mr Olmert's assurances cleared the way for the peacekeepers to try to move the civilians, he said. Arrangements would also have to be worked out with Hizbollah, he added.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bolton; bush; hezbollah; israel; lebanon; screwtheun; securitycouncil; un; unitednations; unsecuritycouncil
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To: West Coast Conservative
"UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Guehenno"
Nice surname, almost Gehenna. But B. L. Zebub instead of Jean-Marie would be even better.
21 posted on 07/15/2006 6:42:13 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: rwfromkansas
"When is the recess appointment over?"
When the presidency is. It is renewable as a recess appointment, IIRC.
22 posted on 07/15/2006 6:44:23 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: livius
"Yipes, I wasn't aware of that. Exactly whose military forces do they have in mind? UN Peacekeepers?"

Yes. Here's some essential background information for all.

British Mandate for Palestine (WW I to 1948)

And opinions haven't changed much since then, except that now many of them are comparing the wars against Israel with terrorist attacks by the IRA as an argument for "restraint" against Israel.
23 posted on 07/15/2006 6:49:05 PM PDT by familyop ("Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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To: familyop
Everyone who reads that should remember it, although I'll be keeping the link. All of the other members of the Security Council (including your favorite Euro-identity country) are inexplicably and compulsively against the people of Israel.

Although not a member of the security council, the Vatican is against Israel as well...

24 posted on 07/15/2006 6:52:10 PM PDT by Iscool (President Bush loves AMNESTY...But he hates the DICTIONARY...)
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To: West Coast Conservative
The nice thing about being a journalist is that you can imply that there was a

vote and a veto

when nothing of the sort happened.

25 posted on 07/15/2006 6:54:03 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: tet68
So now UN vehicles will be used to move Hezbulla infrastructure out of the danger zone? Two birds with one stone. The American military should be so lucky.
26 posted on 07/15/2006 6:54:39 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: West Coast Conservative
These ba$stard unleashed the dogs of war, and now they are crying and asking "Daddy United Nations" to call the dogs off.

Excuse my French, but tough $hit.

You Muslims did this to yourselves, and now that Israel is making you pay for it, you cry like a sissy.

Tell you what - all you Islamic murderers leave Israel the hell alone. Don't mess with her borders, her soldiers, her civilians, or her soverignty.

Got that?

27 posted on 07/15/2006 6:55:52 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Iscool

thank G-d for Israel that kerry lost


28 posted on 07/15/2006 6:57:23 PM PDT by italianquaker (Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
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To: rhombus
How does anyone think John Kerry's UN ambassador would have voted? Al Gore's? Bill Clinton's?

I must say, that thought has been on my mind the past two days.

I wonder how Clinton and Gore sleep at night, with the events of the past two weeks.

As a matter of fact, I hope they don't, because they don't deserve to.

29 posted on 07/15/2006 6:58:24 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Thy Will Be Done.)
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To: familyop

Well, let their military forces attempt to "occupy Israel to restrain it."


30 posted on 07/15/2006 6:59:01 PM PDT by Doc-Joe
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To: GSlob; rwfromkansas

The recess appointment was made while Congress was in recess, after Bolton's nomination was filibustered. I believe it's good until the next Congress is seated in '07. Then he would have to be confirmed or else leave the job. I don't understand how a President could continually recess appoint someone so that they stay in office until the President leaves office. I don't believe it's possible. Think about it.


31 posted on 07/15/2006 7:00:54 PM PDT by txrangerette ("We are fighting al-Qaeda, NOT Aunt Sadie"...Dick Cheney commenting on the wiretaps!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
....and here we are impotent.

By your own choice, Lebanon. It's what happens when you tolerate terrorists in your own land. What goes around comes around.

32 posted on 07/15/2006 7:01:15 PM PDT by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: livius

"...I think it is revealing and most unfortunate that they have decided to pick the wrong side in this conflict."

Maybe that's because it's where they get much of their oil.
They call it, "being practical". They are very good at that.


33 posted on 07/15/2006 7:02:44 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: West Coast Conservative
WAY TO GO John Bolton !!


34 posted on 07/15/2006 7:07:34 PM PDT by davidosborne (DavidOsborne.net)
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To: familyop
And BTW, I've looked around the western European press over the past few days. British, French, Italian and Norwegian media (including the most conservative of them) have been insinuating that military forces should occupy Israel to restrain it.

If we aren't in WWIII yet (and I believe we are), that would start it for sure.

35 posted on 07/15/2006 7:11:51 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Where you go with me, heaven will always be.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
"Destruction is still going on, people are still dying ... and here we are impotent."

Return the captured soldiers.

36 posted on 07/15/2006 7:18:51 PM PDT by blam
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To: NinoFan

37 posted on 07/15/2006 7:19:28 PM PDT by Tree of Liberty (requiescat in pace, President Reagan)
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To: Dawnsblood
Bolten rules. My wholehearted congrats to the President.

Thanks God for President Bush.

38 posted on 07/15/2006 7:21:38 PM PDT by mickie
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To: sgtbono2002
The UN is useless.

Why do you think they call it the UNSecurity Council?

39 posted on 07/15/2006 7:23:57 PM PDT by SmithL (The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

40 posted on 07/15/2006 7:26:11 PM PDT by evangmlw ("God Is Definitely Conservative")
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