...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
held up photographs of slain children and read out the names of the dead on Tuesday as he pleaded for action from the Security Council.
"On behalf of the Paleostinian people, we ask: What is the international community doing to stop this bloodletting, to stop Israel's atrocities?" Riyad Mansour said at a debate on the Gazoo crisis.
| Come now, Mr. Mansour. The international community is doing exactly the same thing to stop Israel's atrocities as they are to stop Gaza's atrocities: absolutely nothing. Though they sure are talking a lot... |
The Security Council opened debate on the Gazoo crisis as Israel kept up its barrage of shells and air strikes and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, gunnies hit back with rockets, pushing the Paleostinian corpse count to more than 600 in a conflict now in its third week.
Israel's deputy envoy asserted that his country was acting in self-defense against Hamas, which it accused of using Paleostinian casualties as "fuel for a propaganda machine."
"This is not a war we chose. It was our last resort," said David Roet, who added that Israel had accepted ceasefire offers, unlike Hamas which has rejected a truce.
In Ramallah for talks with Paleostinian leaders, U.N. Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
told the Council by videolink that his efforts to secure a ceasefire had reached a "highly sensitive moment" and voiced hope for results "in the very near future."
During an emergency session on Sunday, the U.N. Security Council called for an immediate ceasefire in a statement that also demanded that civilians be protected.
But the 15-member Council has not taken the stronger step of adopting a formal resolution, despite efforts by Jordan and other Arab countries to win support for such a measure.
World leaders have expressed alarm over the rising corpse count, with U.S. Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
holding talks in Cairo to shore up Egypt's efforts to broker a truce.
More than 100,000 Paleostinians have fled their homes and are sheltering in schools run by the U.N. relief agency UNRWA.