Posted on 11/07/2009 7:32:51 AM PST by kindred
Israel on Friday rejected a United Nations General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities". In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said in response to Thursday's vote that Israel "maintains the right to self-defense", and would "continue to act to protect the lives of its citizens from the threat of international terrorism". The resolution, endorsing a report on the Gaza war commissioned by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, was nonbinding and seen as unlikely to force either Israel or Islamist Hamas rulers in Gaza to investigate the findings. Advertisement But Israel has responded with outrage to the findings issued in September by a panel led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, seeing the document as an Arab bid to undermine the reputations of its military and political leaders. "Israel rejects the resolution of the U.N. General Assembly, which is completely detached from realities on the ground that Israel must face," the Foreign Ministry statement issued by spokesman Yigal Palmor said. Palmor also maintained that Israel had "demonstrated higher military and moral standards than each and every one of this resolution's instigators", during the war in December in which more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. The 192-member General Assembly adopted the resolution Thursday by a vote of 114-18, with others absent or abstaining. The resolution calls on the Security Council to act if either side fails to launch credible investigations within three months. The report on the Gaza war was drafted by an expert UN panel chaired by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, and concluded
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It’s one thing to say that Israel hasn’t put on a 100% perfect performance and quite another to imply that everything they have done in Gaza was laced with malice.
What does Israel expect from the UN? A muslim decision, which is detached from reality. Dont worry about facts, they will only confuse the issue as they have already made up their muslim minds. Moamarr Ghadaffi as an example, can pull all of Africas votes under his wing.... 83 nations will follow their “king of kings”. Plussss he can pull votes throughout the mideast.... go figure on the fairness of the corrupt muslim machine... the UN.
What do 83 nations from Africa know about democracy? Nothing. NAda Zip! Also a contributing factor to their continuity in a bass ackward existence.
There is no way 192 nations should be in a "governing body" in a world where less than 20 nations have any serious considerations effected by that body.
The USSR and China pushed for others to be added and the West allowed themselves to be rolled. It is far easier to get votes by encouraging the "masses" to steal from the West and nearly all decisions are now anti-West.
Precisely... and why should bass ackward nations who cannot find their own butts use the UN to dictate to the US or Israel( probably the most advanced place on the planet). Look at my example - 1 contintent, the most fu@@@d up , ignorant and illiterate place on the planet containing what 83 broken down dictatorships?
Pure, unadulterated horseshit!
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