30 years of US vetoes at UN

[zefrog]

There are just the last 30 years. If I remember correctly, France vetoed once against a US resoultion, I believe it was in 1956 for the Suez crisis. The french and british were anti-Nasser, pro-Israeli, and marching to war. The americans were pro-Nasser and preferred containment. Plus ca change...

[bobi]

so what?

stop wasting your time.

[Kevin Curry]

Th UN (inluding France) ordered to Iraq to disarm within 60 days twelve years ago. Nothing happened for 11.9 years until the US and Great Britain ordered their military forces to the area. What did France do during these 11.9 years that made the slightest difference? What is France doing now but trying to undermine the force that has made any difference at all?

France is destroying the UN. And the US and Great Britain will destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein. That's a good deal all the way round.

[wretchard]

It's a very interesting list of vetoes. The vast majority concern two subjects: UN resolutions condemning Israel and South Africa. Doubtless the people in Southern Africa are benefitting immensely under the regimes endorsed by the UN Security Council and I am gratified to see that you are proud of that.

It would surely be best for all concerned if the US gave way on the first point too. After the Jews were driven into the sea, there will be peace and security in the region. Perhaps you would care to move to that paradise in the immediate aftermath, after the removal of a US veto makes it's attainment possible. Of course, the Jews might fire off 300 nukes before they die, a factor that America might have considered in their deliberations, but that is a detail.

My favorite is the US veto of the 1980 Endorsement of the Program of Action for Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women. If ever a subject required serious deliberation in the Security Council, this was it.

I thank you for publishing the list of Security Council Resolutions that the United States has vetoed, but probably not for the reasons you intended. It has made me absolutely certain that the world would be a madhouse without America and everlastingly grateful for calling my attention to that fact.

[AFPhys]

France is destroying the UN. That is good.

[libertylover]

Thank you for publishing the list of Security Council Resolutions that the United States has vetoed, but probably not for the reasons you intended. It has made me absolutely certain that the world would be a madhouse without America and everlastingly grateful for calling my attention to that fact.

Hear, hear!

[river rat]

France is contributing to the destruction of the only international forum that pretends France deserves veto authority over any "real" nation....

The French have been ill served by the dispicable bastards they placed in power...

Semper Fi

[Brytani]

"1986 Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan airliner."

I don't remember this incident, can anyone refresh my memory?

[conservativecorner]

Let me second your thoughts, and give you a mega bump as well!!

[Catspaw]

I notice you didn't provide a link or a source. Did you get this list from Stormfront?

[KeyWest]

Great post.

The list of vetoes also underscores my position that we should not get out of the UN, since, if we leave, it only adds to the mischief making of the many undemocratic forces still in the world. One veto stops it all.

[zefrog]

No, it came from an european news forum.

[Catspaw]

Let's see the link.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The U.N. is headed for the dust bin of history. It has no moral authority. It is dominated by cowards, scoundrels and thieves. It's participants do not even obey the laws of the city of New York. Many of us are ready to help U.N. personnel pack and to drive them to the airport for a one-way trip out of our country. Today would not be soon enough. Good riddance to the self-serving human debris.

[bart99]

Since there are several arab states, including Iraq, whose POLICY is the extermination of the state of Israel, it's right to even exist - that has been going on since it was formed by the UN back in the late 40s - it has become a regular event for reolutions to be put forth condeming anything the Isralies do, even if it's in self-defense. Thank god for our veto power. But then, nothing the UN passes is ever enforced (note the 17 reolutions against Iraq).

By the way, the Isralies are prepared to launch many nukes if it appears that weapons of Mass destruction are tossed their way to eliminate their state/country. They feel they ain't gonna go down alone.

[MEG33]

Straw had Villipin for lunch today in the UN.

[wlansberry]

http://www.wrmea.com/Washington-Report_org/www/backissues/1194/9411071.htmMiddle East History: It Happened in December

Israel Was First Nation to Skyjack A Civilian Airliner

By Donald Neff

November/December 1994, Pages 71-72

It was 40 years ago that Israel conducted the first skyjacking of a civilian airliner. On Dec. 12, 1954, Israeli warplanes forced a Syrian Airways Dakota passenger craft carrying four passengers and five crewmen to land at Lydda airport inside Israel.1 The passengers were interrogated for two days before international protests, including strong complaints from Washington, finally convinced Israel to release the plane and its passengers.2

Moshe Sharett, who as Israel's foreign minister had to explain the incident to the international community, was privately appalled by it. He recorded in his diary: "I have no reason to doubt the truth of the factual affirmation of the U.S. State Department that our action was without precedent in the history of international practice. What shocks and worries me is the narrow-mindedness and the short-sightedness of our military leaders. They seem to presume that the state of Israel may—or even must—behave in the realm of international relations according to the laws of the jungle."3

The purpose of the unprecedented skyjacking, according to Sharett, was Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan's ambition "to get hostages in order to obtain the release of our prisoners in Damascus."4 The reference was to an incident that had occurred four days earlier. Five Israeli soldiers were captured retrieving tapping devices on Syrian telephone lines on the Golan Heights inside Syria. Israel expressed outrage at the imprisonment of the soldiers but Syria refused to release them. 5

Israeli passions were riled even further the next month when one of the Israeli soldiers, Uri Ilan, son of a former Mapam member of parliament, committed suicide in jail on Jan. 13, 1955. Although the Israeli press loudly charged Syria with torture, an examination by the United Nations showed "no signs of physical ill-treatment."6

But still Syria refused to release the prisoners, pointing out that Israel was holding Syrian civilians prisoner. The impasse contributed to an even graver incident toward the end of the year. On Dec. 11, 1955, Israel sent two paratroop battalions backed by artillery and mortar batteries under the command of Ariel Sharon, later Israel's defense minister, against Syrian military posts at Buteiha Farm and Koursi near the northeast shore of Lake Tiberias.

It was Israel's largest military raid inside Syria up to that time and resulted in 56 Syrian deaths, including three women, and nine wounded. Significantly Israel also took 30 prisoners, whom it later used as hostages to exchange for the four Israelis held by Syria.7 The United States expressed its "shock" at the raid and supported a resolution by the United Nations Security Council that unanimously condemned Israel for its "flagrant violation" of the armistice agreement.8

French Ambassador to the U.N. Herv³ Alphand observed that the condemnation resolution of Israel was "the strongest ever passed by the council."9 It was the fifth time the council had condemned, censured, called on and otherwise passed resolutions critical of Israel.