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2004-04-24 Israel-Palestine

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-24 12:09:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Send in the Spaniards since its a UN op - call Zappies bluff.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-04-24 12:44:12 AM|| 2004-04-24 12:44:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Roed-Larsen would cede to one of the Palis' long-standing demands: an international peacekeeping force. Essentially a hudna with UN paid-for bodyguards.

Posted by Pappy 2004-04-24 1:00:32 AM|| 2004-04-24 1:00:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 These folks are so far beyond parody they can only be tracked with radio-telescopes.

Posted by IceCold 2004-04-24 1:32:30 AM|| 2004-04-24 1:32:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 more UN idiocy. They've enabled Paleo terror with their refugee ~~cities~~ camps, their economic support of Arafat, and their opposition to Israel at every turn. F 'em. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will happen despite anything the UN would do, and getting blue helmets in would - as noted above - allow Paleo mortars and rockets to be shot into Israel from behind UN skirts - with howls of protest and wails of baby ducks and kittens slaughtered if Israel retaliates. Keep the UN out and make the Paleos run a country - should be entertaining

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-24 6:43:08 AM|| 2004-04-24 6:43:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 ...they can only be tracked with radio-telescopes

LOL. Good one!

Posted by Rafael 2004-04-24 7:33:04 AM|| 2004-04-24 7:33:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Whose idea was it that we make our representative to the UN a G-7, whose only job is to attend these sessions to vote "no".

The UN is a joke. That is the perfect solution.

Posted by B 2004-04-24 9:09:13 AM|| 2004-04-24 9:09:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Right. These arrangements worked real well with Lebanon, such that Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad continued operating and killing Israelis. A UN peacekeeping force wouldn't change anything - it would serve as a check on Israeli actions (from a PR standpoint), while continuing to give the Palestinians a free hand in attacking Israelis. I object to this mainly because it's a waste of money. Say a 2,000 personnel presence costs $30,000 each per year. That's $600m for a force that does nothing. Forget it. The variety and cost of the expensive cockamamie schemes that the crooks at the UN come up with are just amazing.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-24 10:58:46 AM|| 2004-04-24 10:58:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Zhang Fei

It seems that Larsen does not like to recall how the UNIFILth troops in Lebanon gave cover to Hizbollah "operatives" at Kfar Kana. They would run out from the camp some 200 yards or so to fire a Katyusha rocket at Israel and then flee back to take cover. Unfortunately civilians sheltering in the camp were hit when artillery shells fell in the camp. Then the Dutch sent a general who accused Peres, then prime minister, of willfully aiming at the camp.
After Israel withdrew from Lebanon UNIFILth troops once again abetted Hizbollah by turning a blind eye to the invasion and kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers. It appears that some of the white SUVs were used in the attack. Koffi Annan denied for a year the existence of a video made of the attack.
And now UNSCUM is starting to make the news with its corrupt behaviour in helping Saddam beat the UN resolutions and also fill their pockets.

With all this how can an American support the use of his tax dollars in UN schemes?

Posted by Barry 2004-04-24 12:39:14 PM|| 2004-04-24 12:39:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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