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| Arab-Muslim bloc seeks UN censure of Israel on Gaza |
| 2006-07-05 |
| Arab and Muslim states will demand the U.N.'s top human rights forum should censure Israel for alleged abuses against Palestinians and that it halt a military assault in Gaza, according to a draft text obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Tunisia, acting on behalf of the 57-country Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), submitted the resolution to the U.N. Human Rights Council ahead of its special session on the territories -- scheduled for Wednesday at the OIC's request. The OIC draft text accuses Israel of arbitrarily arresting Palestinian leaders and of destroying bridges, and water and power plants. A simple majority would be required for adoption by the 47-member state forum in Geneva. Diplomats expected the debate to continue on Thursday and the vote to be close. The forum, which has moral authority, succeeded the widely-discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights, but has already been criticised by Israel and the United States of singling out the Jewish state. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 yeah, cause UK and US obey all the time :-) |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-05 12:38 |
| #13 Oops NK (not UK) |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-07-05 11:50 |
| #12 Since when has any country obeyed a UN demand? Iran, pre-Iraq, Pals, UK, Pak, etc, etc? Ignore them, business as usual. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-07-05 11:49 |
| #11 "Arab and Muslim states will demand the U.N.'s top human rights forum should censure Israel" Big deal. What's new? |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-07-05 09:59 |
| #10 oops .. comment was for 5089. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-05 08:42 |
| #9 that's a good point and you are right. I guess I'm assuming that they won't pull it off because they are too impatient and aggressive to pull it off. It is their bold unrelenting. aggressiveness that allows them to make the inroads they do into our society. I can't help thinking that it is that same bold, unrelenting, aggressiveness that will cause outright war and end in a result dictated by human nature rather than some pie in the sky pc bullsnit. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-05 08:41 |
| #8 Nukes don't need to be involved. Once the infrastructure and trade patterns that support the agriculture that feeds all these people is disrupted and destroyed, we will see large scale starvation and disease the likes of which the western world has not experienced for 600 years. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-05 08:37 |
| #7 Yes, but what about the REAL war, IE the demographic inbalance between the West ands the still-growning for now muslim heartland, and the mass migrations? I don't fear a takeover of France or Europe by hordes of scimitar-swinging jihadis (though push comes to shove, and europeans start reacting harshly and actual fighting erupts, I can very well picture north african armies, and muslim volunteers from all over the world coming to help their fellow True Believers), but through the deadly combination of 1) western deathwish (be it due to cultural marxism, or related to post WWI loss of values, etc, etc,...) + 2) demographical growth in islamic countries (this WILL have to have consequences for us and them) + 3) mass migrations and population shift (see 1 & 2). This is the real deal. The purely "military" aspect of this is a sideshow, unless of course nukes are involved. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-05 08:29 |
| #6 Sometimes, it is easy to get so close to something you can't see it properly. Take a step back and what you see are cave men who, due to advances of the 21st century, were unfrozen and forced to suddenly live in a modern world - over a century beyond their realm. Up to this point, and due to our need for oil, they have been given a pass. We stop for them, like I stop for the geese who pass in front of my car, who then flap their wings and honking at ME. They don't have a chance. They don't have a clue. They only rely on our charity. Thus you see all the bluster about abuses, but when the petal hits the metal (so to speak) the honking is meaningless. Think about it. It's like they want to fight with sticks and spears against machine guns. They might get a nuke and kill people, but they are so very far behind both in mindset and technology that they have no chance of winning. Sure, in their little caveminds they think they can. But that's because they are still operating under the assumptions of a culture that isn't going to survive in today's world. They've got bluster and tactics from over a century ago. We are currently fighting with our hands tied. Soon enough, they will do something stupid and the real fighting will begin. It's not even going to be close. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-05 08:20 |
| #5 agree with posts above. I think we are moving beyond the point where it matters anymore. In the end, they are just little yappy dogs, too stupid to realize that the big dog is now showing his teeth and giving them a warning growl. So they yap some more. So what? What good will that do them when the real fight begins? |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-05 07:50 |
| #4 CrazyFool, yes, that's mindboggling, you've described it exactly. Black is white, right is wrong, wrong is right, up is down,... Coming from the arabo-muslims, this is not unexpected; at the basis of their own civilization is the idea that there's no reciprocity to be expected between the warrior Master Religion and the kufrs, the former having all the rights, while the later are only here to submit and to support their (non-productive) betters. So, they're only acting "normally" while waging war against us throught the very world order and institutions we set up after WWII that have taken a life of their own, thanks to their oil money. BUT, that this whole mess is somehow taken seriously and no denounced by the West, and is actually even encouraged and enabled, is a different indicator, telling how deep we've fallen down. This values inversion is but a symptom of our own rot and decay. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-07-05 04:25 |
| #3 Does anyone (anyone sane that is) really care what the UN says any more? Seriously, I know that whenever the UN proclaims on something, I either totally ignore it or reflexively take the opposite stance. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-07-05 01:10 |
| #2 No mention of the rockets the Government of Palistine has been firing into Israel - an act of war. No mention of the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and murder of two of his fellows by the palistinian government - an act of war. No mention of the deliberate kidnapping and murder of an innocent Israeli civilian by the Palistinian Government - an act of war. Just that the OIC wants Israel to immediately cease and desist from defending itself and denying the muslim's right to murder innocent jews. We need to get out of the UN and stop financing it NOW. Kick them out of here, demolish the UN Building, salt the earth it stood on, and place a sewage treatment plant in its place. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-05 01:10 |
| #1 Where's the timetable to withdraw from the UN. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-07-05 00:49 |