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UN asks Israel to pay Lebanon $856 million for oil spill [from defensive war against Hizb'allah]
AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | 12/20/14

Posted on 12/21/2014 1:55:52 AM PST by Slings and Arrows

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Israel was asked by the UN General Assembly on Friday to compensate Lebanon for $856.4 million in oil spill damages it caused during its 2006 war with Hezbollah.

The non-binding vote, which passed 170-6, asks Israel to offer "prompt and adequate compensation" to Lebanon and other countries affected by the oil spill's pollution.

In a statement, Israel condemned the resolution as biased against the nation, Israeli media reported.

The oil spill was caused by Israel's air force when it bombed oil tanks near a coastal Lebanese power plant during the fierce month-long war with Hezbollah fighters.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Syria
KEYWORDS: australia; cameroon; canada; iran; israel; lebanon; marshallislands; micronesia; papuanewguinea; syria; tonga
Should Israel also compensate Hamas for collapsing their infiltration tunnels?

GFYUN!

1 posted on 12/21/2014 1:55:52 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
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To: Slings and Arrows

If the United Nations function has been reduced to the restriction of food crop access to carbon dioxide in the air and punishing Israel for defending itself, then the UN has no practical justification for its continued existence.


2 posted on 12/21/2014 2:10:30 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Slings and Arrows
UN asks Israel to...

This has been going on since the 1947 Partition Plan.

Let's face it, the UN, that is, the world is damn sorry they “gave” (fought for by Israel) the Jews a nation.

Ever since the creation of the State of Israel, the UN has done it's utmost to cancel that decision and state. The UN is a body that should move to Cuba, North Korea, Iran or Putin's Russia. There, they can feel more at home.

With 100,000 dead Arabs in Syria, slaughter to the right, rape, mayhem and bloodshed to the left, the UN should concentrate on REAL, SEROIUS trouble spots in the world.

3 posted on 12/21/2014 2:14:03 AM PST by Netz
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To: clearcarbon

Apparently they stay together because Jewhating is more fun when you do it as a group.


4 posted on 12/21/2014 2:21:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Apparently Obama is running out of other peoples’ money to give to terrorists.


5 posted on 12/21/2014 2:32:47 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Netz; Slings and Arrows
As for the UN location - anywhere but here. But I seriously doubt if Putin is stupid enough to allow them into Russia.

And serious problems in the world?

You really want the Baby Blue Rump Rangers to have authority over things that matter?

Pull our funding, assert our sovereignty, and kick them back to Third World insignificance. (Not holding my breath.)

6 posted on 12/21/2014 2:33:25 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi; Netz

I’ve always favored Mogadishu.


7 posted on 12/21/2014 2:41:06 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Good, cheap real estate there.....


8 posted on 12/21/2014 2:45:08 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi

It doesn’t matter anymore...the world has gone to pot as the US commits suicide...


9 posted on 12/21/2014 3:36:08 AM PST by Netz
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Also by a recorded vote of 170 in favour and 6 against (Australia, Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), United States), and 3 abstentions (Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Tonga), the Assembly adopted the text on oil slick on Lebanese shores. By the text, it requested that Israel assume responsibility for prompt and adequate compensation to Lebanon and other directly affected countries for the costs of repairing the environmental damage caused by the slick. Further, it encouraged Member States and the international donor community to continue their financial and technical support to Lebanon towards achieving the completion of clean-up and rehabilitation operations.

http://www.un.org/press/en/2014/ga11605.doc.htm


10 posted on 12/21/2014 3:56:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ah. Of course. We barely survive an attack of attrition and we are going to be charged more attrition.

The UN is now a branch of terror, pretty much official here.


11 posted on 12/21/2014 4:10:52 AM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: lavaroise

I disagree only with “now.”


12 posted on 12/21/2014 4:25:27 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’d like to “ask” the UN to pay the US $300,000,000,000,000 for all the damage they have done to civilization, in general.


13 posted on 12/21/2014 7:26:18 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Don’t lowball your estimate.


14 posted on 12/21/2014 7:47:37 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Slings and Arrows
It was in the spirit of Christmas that I "held back".
15 posted on 12/21/2014 8:17:58 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

Ho. Ho. Ho.


16 posted on 12/21/2014 12:01:17 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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