so you are now saying Iraq and Israel did the right thing by ignoring the UN ?
On Jan 10, 7:16 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > americanthinker.com > Rick Moran > > Did you hear that the United Nations Security Council voted 14-0, > ordering Israel to cease fire immediately. > > That's "immediately" as in, "right now," "chop-chop," "Halt in the > name of the crown, I say..." > > As if. > > Israel is to keep up its offensive in the Gaza Strip despite a UN call > for an immediate end to nearly two weeks of conflict involving Hamas > militants. > > Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the latest firing of rockets into > Israel showed the resolution was "unworkable". Hamas has also > dismissed the UN's call. > > The Security Council resolution demanded a truce, access for aid > workers and an end to arms smuggling. > > A top UN official has said one Israeli action could constitute a war > crime. > > A "war crime, eh?" Sounds serious. What the gentleman calls firing > 7,000 rockets into residential neighborhoods as Hamas has done in > recent years, he just couldn't bring himself to say. Probably slipped > his mind or something. > > Why anyone should listen to the dirty necked galoots at the UN is a > mystery. Even the Palestinians are ignoring the august gentlemen: > > Hamas said it had rejected the UN's call for an immediate ceasefire > because it was not to the advantage of the Palestinian people. > > Ayman Taha, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said: "Even though we are the > main actors on the ground in Gaza, we were not consulted about this > resolution and they have not taken into account our vision and the > interests of our people." > > Perhaps it is not surprising that terrorists would ignore what the UN > has to say except Hamas can usually be found sitting in the lap of one > UN potentate or another so it is a bit surprising that they would > treat their pimps so discourteously. > > The United States, God Bless us, abstained on the cease fire motion > knowing full well the belligerents would ignore it while scoring > points with the cool people who still care anything about what the UN > does. > > The UN should probably go back to trying to scare people about global > warming. Thankfully, they're having about as much success doing that > as they are at stopping the war in Gaza. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
