The Post-Arafat Road.... to nowhere
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| UN human rights expert: 'Israel has killed the road map' | |
| 2004-10-29 | |
| Israel has killed the road map peace plan for the Middle East with apparent U.S. acquiescence, a UN human rights investigator said on Thursday, triggering a strong rebuttal from the Jewish state. "The road map is dead. Israel has killed it," South African law professor John Dugard told a General Assembly committee. Being on the same road with the likes of Hamas marching murderers tends to result on traffic nightmares
Is 'world' also looking at the record of 'human rights' Hamas showed it's dead victims as they were blown to bits simply for taking a bus to work or school? Israeli envoy Tuvia Israeli responded to Dugard by saying his work had long been marked by "lack of context, lack of balance, omission of facts and distortions of both law and reality." By ignoring Palestinians' "support of terrorism, corruption, lack of reform and incitement to violence," Dugard had advanced "a rejectionist myth that only one side has responsibilities and only one has rights," Israeli said. "Such a myth is not just a lie; it is fundamentally incompatible with the road map and with the true spirit of international law and diplomacy," Israeli told the committee. Dugard, in a report issued last month, accused Israel of building its barrier on West Bank land in order to confiscate the land and put pressure on Palestinians to move away, rather than to keep out suicide bombers, as Israel says. | |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #11 Israel has killed the road map peace plan for the Middle East with apparent U.S. acquiescence, a UN human rights investigator said on Thursday,.. Well well, not only is the UN worthless, but its employees are proving to be stupid too! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-29 11:12:13 PM |
| #10 According to Tuvia Israeli, Dugard had advanced "a rejectionist myth that only one side has responsibilities and only one has rights." This is the situation in a nutshell. Dugard and his ilk never veer from parroting the line that only Israel has responsibilities and only Palestinians have rights. Boring bunch of PC f***ers. I could write their script for them for any hypothetical twist and turn in this conflict well in advance. That's how little they have to contribute to any dialogue, leave alone any solution to the conflict. And the man's a law professor? Give me a break. |
| Posted by: Bryan 2004-10-29 8:15:42 PM |
| #9 I saw my Dad kill a road map once, we ended up going to Six Gun Territory anyway. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-29 5:33:11 PM |
| #8 The Post-Arafat Road.... to nowhere |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-29 5:26:03 PM |
| #7 UN human rights expert Is like a canine professor of mathematics |
| Posted by: Anonymous6092 2004-10-29 4:38:53 PM |
| #6 A UN human rights expert? Probably the Soudanese or Lybian expert. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-10-29 3:13:10 PM |
| #5 The Israelis should just shrug and say "But look at how wonderful the UN roadmap for Sudan is working out!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-10-29 9:56:46 AM |
| #4 What? They won't line up quietly to be placed in to the cattle cars this time? |
| Posted by: Don 2004-10-29 9:41:17 AM |
| #3 Yeah a great big wall and a bunch of missile craters will tend to do that. But Israeli casualties are significantly down, so maybe they should just hire a new cartographer. |
| Posted by: chthus 2004-10-29 9:28:24 AM |
#2 The road map is dead. Israel has killed itGOOD! That's a mercy killing if I ever saw one. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-29 9:03:44 AM |
| #1 "The world is looking to the United States for leadership in this region, and the world is simply not getting it," This is just code for "the US is not pressuring Israel to make concessions". But who's pressuring the Paleos? No one, which is why there's no progress on a solution. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-10-29 8:03:19 AM |