First y'gotta find the peace to keep, don't you? | Non-aligned countries Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to deploy peacekeepers to provide more targets help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, citing warnings that the worsening bloodshed there has fueled violence in Iraq. Malaysia, the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, also said it would issue a statement criticizing U.S. forces' abuse of Iraqi prisoners and urging a greater U.N. role in postwar Iraq. Separately, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi condemned the beheading in Iraq of U.S. civilian Nicholas Berg. He called it part of a "cycle of violence" that included the prisoner abuse.
Yup. He's riding the Cycle of Violence™ around the block again... | Abdullah, in an opening speech the Non-Aligned Movement's emergency meeting on the Palestinians, said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the "root cause of much of the violence in the Middle East ... (and) elsewhere in the world."
Which is why the bloodshed stretches from Mauritania to the Philippines... | "The international community and the United Nations cannot afford to allow this issue to remain unresolved indefinitely," Badawi, chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, told a key meeting of the 116-nation group. "The rising tensions in the Middle East following the war in Iraq have increased the need for, and importance of, rapid positive movement on the Israeli-Palestinian track." Malaysia hosted a meeting of the group's Committee on Palestine and members on the U.N. Security Council Algeria, Angola, Benin, Chile, Pakistan and the Philippines. The countries issued a communique urging the Security Council to "authorize an international presence and establish a United Nations peacekeeping mission" in occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
Yeah. That should help. I remember, about 20 years ago we had a UN-sanctioned peacekeeping mission in Beirut. Until Hezbollah blew up the barracks the Marines were staying in... |
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