Posted on 03/13/2008 3:50:44 PM PDT by SmithL
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Israel to stop using "disproportionate and excessive force" against the Palestinians.
"Israel's disproportionate and excessive use of force has killed and injured many civilians including children ... I condemn these actions and call on Israel to cease such acts," Ban told the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)summit in Senegal's capital Dakar.
Earlier at the summit, Senegal's president and the new OIC chairman, Abdoulaye Wade, said he would make solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a priority for the organization.
"The just and legitimate cause of Palestine remains at the heart of our concerns," Wade told the leaders of dozens of Islamic nations who attended the two-day summit of the world's largest Muslim group.
Wade called Israel "an occupying power" and urged its government to "immediately stop its disproportionate use of force."
He added: "I should like to tell our brothers and sisters of Palestine that your unity is the first priority of success .... Please unite."
The Middle East has long been a core issue for the 57-member OIC, which was founded in 1969 in response to an arson attack on the al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem. The group aims to promote Islamic unity and serve as a voice for the Muslim world.
The Palestinian delegation declared the summit a success even before it began, saying earlier Thursday it had garnered key support from fellow Muslims.
A declaration drafted by foreign ministers to be adopted by the summit "reinforces support and backs Palestine, and condemns Israel for what it is doing in Gaza," Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said as leaders of dozens of Islamic nations gathered in Senegal's capital for the opening of a two-day Organization of the Islamic Conference summit.
Malki called the summit "an exercise in solidarity and in showing political support for countries like Palestine."
Summits are traditionally held every three years, and the agenda this year included studying ways to improve Islam's image in the West and spurring economic development in some of the world's poorest countries - the summit brings together Arab countries that set the price of oil with small African nations who struggle to provide their citizens with paved roads.
Not again, Not Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So then it would be okay if these rockets killed and maimed several hundred Israeli’s ... then Israel would be justified before the UN to take out those terrorists ... rather than to stop them before they killed people??? How stupid is that? Oh, I forgot, it’s the UN .....
I’ve actually been to Dakar, Senegal. It’s a dirt-encrusted hell hole filled with mud buildings and a tan gritty dust with millions of impoverished people huddled together in unelieveable squalor.
Therefore, it makes sense to blame the Jews. Far better to do that than actually see that your own culture and religion has given you filth and called it riches.
“UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Israel to stop using “disproportionate and excessive force” against the Palestinians.”
So if the UN was around when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, our response would have been excessive? We lost perhaps 1700 civilians and military - then on 9/11 we lost 3,000 and our response is excessive? But then again .. it’s the UN ....
The only force one should use is "disproportionate and excessive". Otherwise, it's called losing.
Venomous hatred of all things Jewish and a burning desire to spread chaos around the world.
As long as the U.S.A funds the u.n., we are also guilty of their manifold crimes.
A proportionate response to attempts at genocide would be...?
This from a man whose country ran over it’s citizens with tanks, while peacefully demostrating.
When Ban Ki-moon became Secretary General, everyone said he was a pro-American conservative. It just goes to show you what happens when you need to keep the UN happy. He’s turned into Kofi Annan all over again.
Israel should use their example and use as much force.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1761062858590826090
Hey Ban FU!!!!!
Israelis are killed by rockets but “Palestinians” are killed by Israelis.
/BIZARRO WORLD
Apparently Obama would support these conclusions whole-heartedly.
Ban/UN thinks they should take the rocket barrages against Israeli towns like good little Jews and do nothing to protect themselves, it appears. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
One day Israel will be forced to use their ERWs.
Ban to Jews:
Die
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