Posted on 03/01/2008 6:43:43 PM PST by jdm
The Arab League has demanded — and received — an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following the Israeli counterattack on Gaza. They want the UNSC to issue a condemnation for Israel’s military action, which has killed over 70 Gazans, essentially blaming Israel for responding to the continuing volley of rocket attacks on Sderot and Ashkelon:
The U.N. Security Council is meeting in emergency session at the request of the Palestinians and their Arab supporters who want the U.N.’s most powerful body to condemn the Israeli attack on Gaza and call for a cease-fire.
Council members met behind closed doors Saturday night, though the Arab League’s U.N. observer, Yahya Mahmassani, said its members want an open meeting to protest the Israeli attack.
The UNSC will not likely issue any kind of resolution, mostly because the US and UK are not going to blame Israel for finally responding to the continuing provocations of Hamas. They have launched rockets continuously from Gaza at Sderot since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza three years ago. The Israelis acted with restraint until the launchers targeted Ashkelon this week, a much larger city, as an escalation of their attacks.
Now they want to haul dead civilians in front of journalists to complain about the Israeli counterattack. That might work except for two points. First, Gazans deliberately targeted Israeli civilians in Sderot and Ashkelon, or at the very least didn’t bother to target anything at all and had no worries whether they killed women and children. Second, the Gazans locate their rocket launchers in civilian centers, essentially using women and children as human shields.
The Arabs want to handcuff the Israelis while the Gazans continue shelling them. If the Arabs really wanted to keep Gazan civilians alive, they would get Hamas to quit launching rockets at Israeli cities. If the Gazans, led by Hamas, want to make acts of war, then they should quit crying when their enemy hits them back.
Unbelievable!!!!! The brazen hypocrisy is just overwhelming.
One “low yield” ordinance would quite things for a while...?That would allow Israel to say “we only fired once!?
It's easy for the terrorists and their supporters to be so hypocritical. When one has no soul, one has no shame.
Well Said
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Too True
I am fatigued by all the shaking of fingers going on currently, domestically and internationally.
Neither the US government nor its permitted entity, the UN, is a parent.
I hate to be a Mr. Obvious here but how about STOP GIVING THE HAMAS ROCKETS?
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For every rocket fired, open up with artillery, leveling the general vicinity from which the rocket came.”
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I’ve always wondered why they don’t retaliate in this manner....would shut the cowards down in a hurry.
All I can say is finally! Go Israel Go..... Destroy Hamas as they have a goal of destroying Israel.
Never Again. Jew need to stand tall and fight!
Get Hamas to renounce their charter.
I take your position as seriously as your name, "Ya-ya-ma-ma-sani".
They will not do much until they get rid of their current leader, a lawyer. Bring back someone like Netanyahu, someone with a military background, and this crap will end.
Anti-life collectives demanding action from UNaccountable bureaucrats against the right of a sovereign people/country to defend itself.
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