Posted on 07/27/2006 1:30:44 PM PDT by knighthawk
The United States, in the person of Condoleezza Rice, continues to stand firm against an international community motivated more by intense bias against the State of Israel than by any desire for real Mideast peace, no matter what distorted pronouncements emanate from a Rome summit - or from the United Nations, in the person of Secretary General Kofi Annan. The big glass house by the East River has long nourished an anti-Israel predisposition. But rarely have the UN's leanings been more outrageously on display than they were Tuesday, when Annan accused the Israeli military of "apparently deliberately targeting" a UN post in Lebanon after an errant rocket killed four observers.
It defies reason and humanity to believe Israel determined to launch a lethal attack against the world body, but that was Annan's impulse, one obviously rooted in the animus that informs virtually all he says and does regarding Israel. He is among the leading voices calling on a country besieged by terrorism to lay down its arms before those who would destroy it. And he is among those who, unbelievably, charge Israel with disproportionate use of force.
Since Hezbollah provoked the fight with a bloody cross-border kidnapping, Israel has dropped 40,000 shells on Lebanon, killing roughly 400 people - a figure that testifies to Israeli restraint. Yet Annan is appalled, putting him in the same camp as the top Hezbollah man who admitted he never expected such Israeli fury.
Annan's accusations against Israel are all the more odious because he is the chief of an organization that failed to implement Security Council Resolution 1559, which passed three years ago demanding the disbanding and disarmament of all militias in Lebanon and the control of the Lebanese government over all territory. If the UN had carried through, Hezbollah attacks would have long ended.
Instead, the terrorists' noncompliance was ignored by all, including the peacekeeping forces the UN has had in southern Lebanon since 1978. Rather than make Hezbollah disband and disarm (Israel's objective today), for years the UN let the killers run wild and stockpile thousands of long-range weapons.
So, defying calls for a premature ceasefire in Lebanon, Secretary of State Rice yesterday reiterated this country's stance that there shall be "no return to the status quo," in which Hezbollah, armed by Syria and Iran, rained rockets and missiles on Israel at will.
Hezbollah can never again control the Lebanese borderlands with Israel. Jerusalem, backed by Washington, seeks a 1.2-mile deep buffer zone at the border. A Hezbollah-free zone. And no firing shall cease until that minimum goal is met.
But who to patrol such an area, to ensure against Hezbollah infestation? That is a major sticking point, since the nations aren't rushing to enlist, and Israel is wary of giving the mission to the UN. Can you blame it? No, because the UN helped put it in jeopardy and would keep it there. Provided it survives, of course.
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Like the skunk he is.
His stripes, like those of just about everyone in that lunatic asylum on the Hudson, are bright, bright Red.
But the UN NEVER carries through! And it has along history of animus towards Israel, dating back to the Suez crisis in 1956.
Hah! I was about to post that there's only one stripe--a big white one all the way down his back.
I'm not so sure it wasn't deliberate -- a clear message to the UN to stop shielding terrorists, with deniability.
Yellow is the color coming to mind.
that POS is more like Plaid... BIG Yellow stripe running down the middle of his back flanked by the twin white stripes of the Skunk that he is, followed by stripe rings in every color of the rainbow running round his middle... he SHOULD be wearing a Black and White suit!!!
Thanks knighthawk, I appreciate your pings.
The U.N. under Koffi Commie, is a terrorist stronghold.
Thanks I appreciate it.
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