NewsGuy
03-12-2002, 07:27 PM
This shocking reward for Palestinian slaughter of hundreds of innocent Israelis, was actually gift-wrapped and presented at the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic UN today.
My understanding is that the arrangement is to be based on the Mitchell plan, which requires a complete cease-fire and end to Palestinian terrorism before a "cooling-off period," and then "confidence-building measures" would be implemented.
In reality, I'll bet that while Israel will be forced to hand over even more land rewards to the Palestinians, there will be no mechanism to prevent the Palestinians from reconstructing their missile factories and smuggling thousands of tons of Iranian weapons into its territories, like we've seen them do in the past. There is also no requirement that the Palestinian state be a democracy.
Once again, as happened in every war waged by the Arabs on Israel, as soon as Israel starts making headway in the war, the world, often led by the US, pulls Israel back like a dog on a short leash, causing the Arab threat to Israel to persist.
Here's the sad story:
U.N. Panel Affirms 'Vision' of Palestinian State
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council late Tuesday approved a surprise U.S.-drafted resolution "affirming a vision" of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel within secure and recognized borders.
It was the first resolution on the Middle East to be approved by the council since October 2000 and the first in recent memory concerning the troubled region to be penned by Washington.
The United States, Israel's closest ally, has in the past more typically used the threat of its veto power to block resolutions put forward by Arab nations. It argues a solution should come from the parties to the conflict and be acceptable to both sides.
The resolution was approved by a 14-0 vote, with Syria abstaining, nearly 18 months after the start of a Palestinian uprising the United Nations says has claimed some 1,550 lives.
It states that the council was "affirming a vision of a region where two states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders." A U.S. official said the phrase had been plucked from a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
My understanding is that the arrangement is to be based on the Mitchell plan, which requires a complete cease-fire and end to Palestinian terrorism before a "cooling-off period," and then "confidence-building measures" would be implemented.
In reality, I'll bet that while Israel will be forced to hand over even more land rewards to the Palestinians, there will be no mechanism to prevent the Palestinians from reconstructing their missile factories and smuggling thousands of tons of Iranian weapons into its territories, like we've seen them do in the past. There is also no requirement that the Palestinian state be a democracy.
Once again, as happened in every war waged by the Arabs on Israel, as soon as Israel starts making headway in the war, the world, often led by the US, pulls Israel back like a dog on a short leash, causing the Arab threat to Israel to persist.
Here's the sad story:
U.N. Panel Affirms 'Vision' of Palestinian State
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council late Tuesday approved a surprise U.S.-drafted resolution "affirming a vision" of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel within secure and recognized borders.
It was the first resolution on the Middle East to be approved by the council since October 2000 and the first in recent memory concerning the troubled region to be penned by Washington.
The United States, Israel's closest ally, has in the past more typically used the threat of its veto power to block resolutions put forward by Arab nations. It argues a solution should come from the parties to the conflict and be acceptable to both sides.
The resolution was approved by a 14-0 vote, with Syria abstaining, nearly 18 months after the start of a Palestinian uprising the United Nations says has claimed some 1,550 lives.
It states that the council was "affirming a vision of a region where two states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders." A U.S. official said the phrase had been plucked from a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell.