The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel comply with a world court decision and tear down the barrier it is building to seal off the West Bank. A sensible defiant Israel vowed to continue construction. The 150-6 vote was opposed by Israel and the United States, which argued that the resolution was unbalanced. Ten countries abstained. The four other countries that opposed the resolution were Australia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. The assembly's vote, like the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, is not legally binding as evidenced by the countless toothless resolutions and condemnations regarding Irag and a host of other despotic regimes. But both have symbolic value as international statements of condemnation of the barrier.
Surely you jest, nothing that comes out of the UN has any value. Unless its truckloads of stolen US taxpayer money of course.
Only the Security Council can order the barrier to be torn down or impose sanctions, and the United States -- Israel's closest ally -- would without a doubtalmost certainly use its veto power to block any such resolution. The 191-member world body voted after lengthy negotiations between the Arab League and the European Union.
Otherwise known as the anti-semite club.
The talks resulted in a revised text accepted by both groups. The new text added language reaffirming Israel's right to self-defense and called on the Palestinians to arrest would-be attackers and on Israel to stop attacking Palestinian civilians.
By civilians they mean the guys with the nail bombs strapped to them. |