[The Electrician]

Careful here. If we are going to condemn Iraq for violating UN resolutions, we must also condemn Israel.

No need to be careful here, because the statement is not really true. Not all UN resolutions are created alike. Some (such as the ones that Iraq has violated) have consequences that are actionable, whereas others (such as the ones that were passed concerning Israel and the Palestinians) were issued under a different section of the UN charter and are not. The two are not equivalent.

Having said that, I guess that I need to do some research to back that up... More when I find the specifics.

[Cacophonous]

Actually that sounds like a reasonable explanation. I'm not sure of the distinction between the sanctions against Iraq and Israel (or anyone else, for that matter). I just caution against hypocrisy; let's leave that to the liberals.

[The Electrician]

OK, here is more information on the difference between UN resolutions under "Chapter 6" of the Charter, which are non-binding, and resolutions under "Chapter 7" of the Charter, which give the Security Council the power to take action in order to enforce them. Here's a link to a Toronto Sun column that explains the difference (see excerpt below). I suppose that a primary source would be good to have, too, and if I have time to find a link, I will post it later.

Resolution 242, calling on Israel to withdraw from the territories it won in its war against Arab aggression in 1967, is known as a Chapter 6 resolution under the UN Charter. In such cases, the Security Council makes non-binding recommendations aimed at the peaceful resolution of disputes.

By contrast, Resolution 1441, calling on Iraq to give up its weapons of mass destruction following its August, 1990 invasion of Kuwait and its continued non-compliance with the UN, is a Chapter 7 resolution. As The Economist explained last October in contrasting the Israel and Iraq situations, Chapter 7 resolutions give the Security Council "broad powers to take action, including warlike action (my italics), to deal with" to quote directly from the UN Charter, "any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression."