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Posted on 10/06/2003 5:29:06 PM PDT by blam
EU condemns Israeli attack on Syria
Associated Press
Monday October 6, 2003
The European Union today condemned an Israeli attack on an alleged terrorist training camp in Syria as "unacceptable", with the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, suggesting the strike was a violation of international law. An EU spokeswoman called for calm on all sides following "a very distressing weekend" of violence in the Middle East.
Israeli jets bombed what it claimed was a terrorist training base near Damascus yesterday, the first Israeli strike deep inside Syrian territory in three decades. The attack was made in response to Saturday's Islamic Jihad suicide bombing in Haifa, northern Israel, which killed 19 people.
Mr Solana, who has strongly condemned the Haifa attack, questioned the Israeli response in an interview with the Associated Press.
"I understand that the Israelis are suffering tremendous attacks from terrorists, suicide bombers. But as I said before, the reaction has to be within in the domain of international law," he said.
"Even if Israel has a right to defend itself from terrorism, it has to be done in the context and international rules and laws."
Mr Solana's response followed the UN's failure yesterday to decide whether to accept a Syrian resolution condemning the Israeli air strike near Damascus.
The emergency UN security council meeting adjourned last night without a vote, after the US objected that the Syrian resolution failed to condemn Palestinian terrorism.
At the meeting, called at Syria's request, most security council diplomats spoke out against the Israeli attack on a purported terrorist training camp near the Syrian capital. The diplomats also condemned the Haifa bombing.
Israel's infrastructure minister, Joseph Paritzky, said Israel had evidence that "elements tied to the extremist wing of the Iranian regime have prepared suicide operations in training camps in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Sudan in addition to the Gaza Strip."
"The operation carried out in Syrian territory indicates the will of Israel to hit its enemies wherever they may be," he told L'Unita newspaper.
"Inviolable sanctuaries cannot exist for those who order massacres like that in Haifa. It's a matter of the right to defence, which we don't intend to renounce. In this war unleashed by terrorist groups and their supporters, Israel is the victim and certainly not the aggressor."
Yesterday the US ambassador to the UN, John Negroponte, criticised the Syrian resolution - which urged the UN to condemn "military aggression carried [out] by Israel against the sovereignty and territory" of Syria - for not also denouncing Saturday's violence in Haifa.
"The United States believes that Syria is on the wrong side of the war on terrorism," said Mr Negroponte. "We believe it is in Syria's interest, and in the broader interest of Middle East peace, for Syria to stop harbouring and supporting the groups that perpetrate acts such as the one that occurred yesterday.
"It's just incredible to me that in the wake of an event like that, that a draft resolution coming from a delegation of the council would have no reference whatsoever to this dastardly act," he told reporters after the session. "Another resolution on the Middle East is not what is needed."
Yesterday's attack, the first Israeli strike deep within Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur war, has alarmed other Middle Eastern nations.
But the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman defended the air strike as "an act of self-defence" within the law.
"Syrian complicity and responsibility for suicide bombings is as blatant as it is repugnant," he said. "For Syria to ask a debate in this council is comparable only to the Taliban calling for such a debate after 9/11."
Diplomats have urged all sides to return to the negotiations led by the so-called quartet - the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, and to stick to the US-drafted "road map" peace plan.
· The new Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, was officially sworn into office today and vowed to negotiate a quick truce with Israel. Mr Qureia, who was nominated by Yasser Arafat over a month ago following his predecessor's resignation, also pledged not to use force against Palestinian militants under any circumstances. On the issue of security policy, he said: "I will not listen to the Americans, I will listen to our national rights."
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Good question. Sadly they still think that the Palisites are some kind of "freedom fighter". [sigh] They wouldn't know a freedom fighter if one of them walked into the room and blew up.
I believe that the rules of war apply here, not the so-called "international rules and laws".
Chirac and Schroeder simply recognize their friends who they think can finish the job.
Here, dumbo Solana (EU) leads a queue
of men to serially lick terrorist-sputum
directly from the lips and philtrum of Arafat-the-Egyptian-coward, documented serial murderer of Americans and children.
The EU has a Wyndego tradition of thirsting for the excreta of murderers.
Good point. That would be the same as giving all the US states a vote in the UN, huh?
Yes, but does this mean that the terrorists also have to obey "the context and international rules and laws"? No, only Israel ever gets docked, never Arafat, and the other sacred U.N. swine financing Hamas and the other terrorist groups intended to drive Israel "into the sea".
The context is that Israel should obey the international rules against terrorists, to whom no rules apply. "Shut up and take it" is the U.N. answer, basically. And if they could be honest they would just say ,"Don't you cross that border again, even though we all know they are training prospective Israeli murderers."
It's straight out of Kafka. Would any other modern country with a large miltary force put up with this constant aggression and not fight back? (Okay, we all know about France.)
The deck's stacked against Israel in the U.N., and everyone knows it. So, let Israel be Israel.
Wheres all that multicultural diversity I hear so much about?
That is pretty bad, and with the U.S., it's four permanent majority Caucasian seats and one Asian seat. But the multiculturalism really kicks in on the U.N. committee level. The first month of this year was a vintage year for them: click.
On January 20, Libya was appointed to the rotating chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Commission. At the same time, Iraq is scheduled to chair the UN Conference on Disarmament later this year in Geneva.
Other than demanding popcorn, you can't ask for more UN entertainment than having Libya chairing the Human Rights Commission and Iraq being appointed to chair the UN Conference on Disarmament at the same time, January, 2003.
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