Posted on 07/26/2006 5:49:43 AM PDT by SJackson
If the UN cannot — or will not — distinguish between terrorists who target civilians and a democracy that seeks to stop the terrorism while minimizing civilian casualties, it has become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.
If anyone wonders why the UN has rendered itself worse than irrelevant in the Arab-Israeli conflict, all he or she need do is read UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's July 20 statement. Annan goes to great pains to suggest equal fault and moral equivalence between the rockets of Hezbollah and Hamas that specifically target innocent civilians and the self-defense efforts by Israel, which tries desperately, though not always successfully, to avoid causing civilian casualties. In his statement, Annan never condemns, or even mentions, terrorism, which is a root cause and precipitator of the conflict.
Even Annan was forced to acknowledge that "Hezbollah's provocative attack on July 12 was the trigger of this particular crisis"; that Hezbollah is "deliberate[ly] targeting ... Israeli population centers with hundreds of indiscriminate weapons"; and that Israel has the "right to defend itself under Article 51 of the UN charter." But he doesn't stop there. He goes out of his way to insist on equating Hezbollah's terrorists with Israeli military response, which he labels "disproportionate" and "collective punishment." He condemns both Hezbollah and Israel. He also criticizes Israel for its efforts at preventing Qassam rocket attacks against its civilian populations, noting that the Hamas rockets have produced no "casualties in the past month." (This, of course, is not for lack of trying.) He ignores Hamas' long history of terrorism against innocent civilians.
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Dersh has his major faults such as defending OJ but on Israel this man is a hawk!
Like the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day, even a liberal lunatic can be right once in a while!
Or just stop donating to them and let them pay their own elec. bill there.
This is the point that the MSM is refusing to cover. Just how did Hezballah manage to occupy its current positions in an among the civilian population and side by side with UN troops unless, horror of horrors, they had the active assistance of the UN command itself? The UN has chosen sides, as simple as that. Islamists can rely on their allies in the UN just as America can anticipate comdemnation.
Coming from a lib, no less. At least some American Jews have a strong survival instinct.
It's been going on since the UN arrived, the media won't cover it.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
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