Posted on 05/15/2007 11:32:21 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
The Brit Michael Williams has been appointed as the United Nations' Middle East co-ordinator. He will be placed in Jeruslaem.
Williams will be UN's envoy to the Palestinian Authority and PLO (!) and also towards the so called Quartet - EU, UN, Russia and the US.
Williams is presently advisor to UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon on questions regarding the Middle East, and has previously worked for two former UK foreiegn secretaries; Robin Cook and Jack Straw. He has had high positions in the UN peace-keeping forces in Cambodia and in former Yugoslavia.
Before his employment with the BBC Williams was working with Amnesty International.
(Original article in Swedish - translation by ScaniaBoy)
These types remind me of the original “War of the Worlds” movie were the guy is waving the white flag just prior to being vaporized.
So will anyone ask him about the report the BBC spiked?
UN 'troubled' Israel seized Hamas lawmakers
Published: 05.24.07, 15:16 / Israel News
The UN's newly-appointed special envoy to the Middle East said on Thursday he was "troubled" by Israel's arrest of the Palestinian education minister and other Hamas legislators. "I'm troubled when I see Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian legislators. I'm troubled that the education minister was arrested," UN Envoy Michael Williams told Reuters in an interview. "Of course legislators cannot be immune from the law. But what worries me is that in most cases, as I understand it, there haven't been any charges...Let alone trials," Williams added, referring to Israel's arrest of Hamas lawmakers last year. (Reuters)
It wasn't unexpected, far from, but still.....
I'm sure we will hear more from Mr M Williams in the future, but never on the subject of Kassams or "suicide bombings".
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Published: 05.24.07, 15:16 / Israel News
The UN's newly-appointed special envoy to the Middle East said on Thursday he was "troubled" by Israel's arrest of the Palestinian education minister and other Hamas legislators. "I'm troubled when I see Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian legislators. I'm troubled that the education minister was arrested," UN Envoy Michael Williams told Reuters in an interview. "Of course legislators cannot be immune from the law. But what worries me is that in most cases, as I understand it, there haven't been any charges...Let alone trials," Williams added, referring to Israel's arrest of Hamas lawmakers last year. (Reuters)
Now the IDF has some bargaining chips for when its soldiers get kidnapped. Or maybe they won't get kidnapped because they learned from last time.
POS Hamas openly proclaims its goals of kidnapping IDF boys. So Israel is doing it first!
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