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Ban condemns Israel after bloody day in Gaza
2008-03-02
GAZA - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel for using “excessive” force in the Gaza Strip and demanded a halt to its offensive after troops killed 61 people on the bloodiest day for Palestinians since the 1980s. Addressing an emergency session of the Security Council in New York after four days of fighting in which 96 Palestinians have been killed, many of them civilians, Ban also called on Gaza’s Islamist militants to stop firing rockets.

“While recognising Israel’s right to defend itself, I condemn the disproportionate and excessive use of force that has killed and injured so many civilians, including children ... I call on Israel to cease such attacks,” said Ban. “I condemn Palestinian rocket attacks and call for the immediate cessation of such acts of terrorism,” he said.
There. That should do it.
But with public anger boiling in Israel, there was no sign the government was ready to call off an offensive that took troops deeper into Gaza on Saturday and in larger numbers than at any time since Israel ended a 38-year occupation in 2005.
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#4  Demanded, indeed! I would have expected a hand-written note on creme colored paper accompanied by a green bean casserole.

Everyone is getting upset at the nation of Israel deploying its military might to kill a single Palestinean baby but this is actually good practice for the Paleos who seem to be God's Stupidest Children.

When you are an actual state, you don't get to rocket your neighbors with impunity. No Oops!, no mulligans, no blaming it on the militant wing of the National Library, it's just you, baby! You and your angry neighbors. Think of it as a practice exercise in self-government. And try to pay attention, especially to that cause and effect business.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-03-02 20:34  

#3  Demanded a halt to the offensive? How undiplomatic of the Secretary-General.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-03-02 19:52  

#2  He's growing into Kofi's shoes. Anyone check his bank account lately?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-03-02 13:49  

#1  I'd "shoah" like to see the Israelis go Hamas one better: blow down the Rafah border wall, force every Gazan into Egypt, and then immediately rebuild it higher--with no gates. Any Gazans they find hiding out after the expulsion--catapult them over the wall onto the Gyppo side. Then bulldoze everything in Gaza as fast as possible so there's no place for the UN idiots like this Sork nitwit to claim they can return to, and tell the same UN scumbags that rather than condemning Israel, they would be better off dealing with the Gazans so recently returned to their former rulers. Boil lanced, problem solved.

The usual suspects would bitch, moan, gripe, etc.--and then accept it, just like Congo and Darfur. The world respects power and decisiveness, just as it always has and always will. The Israelis just need to DO IT!
Posted by: Ho Chi Whimp8387   2008-03-02 07:33  

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