[DNeurococo]

After the Security Council Resolution on Israel's action against Arafat was vetoed by the U.S., the next logical step was taken:
the issue was brought before the General Assembly.

The General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the measure calling for Israel to not harm Arafat. As usual, it was only the U.S. (along with two stooges: Micronesia and the Marshall Islands) who sided with Israel in opposing the measure.

Once again: the obstacle to peace is the refusal of the U.S. and Israel to acknowledge the world consensus on this issue. This is reflected in many UN votes where virtually the whole world is in total agreement - - except for Israel and the U.S.

#$DN

[DNeurococo]

CONAN: Israel wants to expel Yassir Arafat because they believe he's unfit to be leader. As a result, Arafat is now running for governor of California.

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"Thou shalt not kill."

Originally posted by LANMaster:
You and I agree on that point, Jim.

Many believe that one reason that Kennedy was assasinated was that he may have tried to assasinate (or have assasinated) Fidel Castro.

The precedent is, without question, not one that this country or this administration should support.

Though, I won't be shedding tears if Arafat is done in by the Israelis. However, the point stays the same. If Sharon signs Arafat's assasination contract, then Sharon might likely go the way of Sadat. The US should distance itself from this stance publicly. It would be the honorable and right thing to do, as this administration (through Colin Powell) has apparently done.

Or was Kennedy assasinated because he was a Christian and someone who supported Rome?

Originally posted by LANMaster:
He's a large part of the hatred.

Anyone know why these people hate each other.

Wasn't this ... supposed ... to be about love through Jesus Christ our Lord, for the Love of God?

A Loving Thanksgiving.

Looks like it all went wrong somewhere.

[LANMaster]

I thought the US had abstained on the resolution.

Are you saying we vetoed it?

[DNeurococo]

The U.S. vetoed the Security Council Resolution, and voted against the General Assembly Resolution.

#$DN

[LANMaster]

Yup, they did.

I am learning more about this resolution, and the way people are saying it was written, I might also veto it. I haven't seen the actual text.
Does anyone have a link? I'd like to read it for myself.
As you know, I do not support the assasination of leaders.
Some of a related news story;

Palestinian cabinet member Yasser Abed Rabbo said the veto of the Syrian-sponsored measure showed Washington was turning its back on the road map and that US policy had become a "hostage" to Israeli hardliners.

Israel's right-wing government, which had called the resolution unbalanced, touched off an international outcry last week by announcing a decision to "remove" the 74-year-old Arafat following two suicide bombings that killed 15 Israelis.

Israel has not said how or when it will act against Mr Arafat, largely confined to his Ramallah headquarters for nearly two years by Israeli army roadblocks and patrols.

Its chief ally, the United States, has tried to sideline Mr Arafat but says it opposes harming or exiling him.

In vetoing the resolution, which demanded Israel "desist from any act of deportation and cease any threat" to Mr Arafat's safety, the US said the text failed to name Palestinian groups blamed for suicide attacks.

[LANMaster]

Ahmed Qureia

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The incoming Palestinian prime minister said Monday he would try to put an end to the "chaos" of illegal weapons in the Palestinian areas, but stopped short of saying he would disarm militant groups.
What a shocker

In the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli troops killed a Hamas fugitive, Basel Kawasmeh, in a firefight in his hideout. Tanks fired several shells before an army bulldozer razed the residential building. Tenants said the fugitive had forced his way in at gunpoint.

The Palestinian prime minister-designate, Ahmed Qureia, said his priority is to negotiate a cease-fire with Israel after he presents his new Cabinet in coming days.

However, Israel has said it won't negotiate a truce until Palestinian security forces begin cracking down on armed groups, as required by the U.S.-backed "road map" plan for Palestinian statehood by 2005.

Qureia met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday, after consulting with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian opposition groups in the Gaza Strip. The groups turned down Qureia's request to join his government, which will be dominated by members of Arafat's Fatah movement.

"We still need more consultations on ending the chaos in the streets, in the administration and in the Palestinian mentality," Qureia said at Arafat's West Bank headquarters. "This is the main issue ... including the chaos in using, distributing and storing weapons."

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[bassetman]

Lan, that's why I added the "I think" I didn't have the numbers in front of me. I just knew it was not the majority.

[LANMaster]

Cool.



I'd like to see the text of the resolution.
I think it would be an enormous mistake for this Administration to abandon the "no assasinations" clause.

[LANMaster]

ignoring

[DNeurococo]

Lan, I noticed that the article you posted included this line: "[Israeli]Tanks fired several shells before an army bulldozer razed the residential building. Tenants said the fugitive had forced his way in at gunpoint."

That type of thing is typical of what goes on in Israeli occupied territories: namely, collective punishment. They will destroy an entire apartment building where tens or even hundreds live because one person who they claim to be a terrorist is thought to live there. The Israelis often destroy the homes of the families of persons who are merely accused of being terrorists.

Collective punishment of this sort is straight out of the Nazi's textbook on the occupation of cities. They make good Nazis. Hitler would be proud of them.

#$DN

Originally posted by DNeurococo:
Lan, I noticed that the article you posted included this line: "[Israeli]Tanks fired several shells before an army bulldozer razed the residential building. Tenants said the fugitive had forced his way in at gunpoint."

That type of thing is typical of what goes on in Israeli occupied territories: namely, collective punishment. They will destroy an entire apartment building where tens or even hundreds live because one person who they claim to be a terrorist is thought to live there. The Israelis often destroy the homes of the families of persons who are merely accused of being terrorists.

Collective punishment of this sort is straight out of the Nazi's textbook on the occupation of cities. They make good Nazis. Hitler would be proud of them.

#$DN

I thought that the Nazi idea was a combination of the catholic church and their satanic "followers" who actually worship Ba'al but consider that, as Mars and the Earth are in the same Solar system, that they are all made of the same stuff (energy), even though some prefer to be cockroaches and lizards, like their ancient, non-genetically modifed, ancestors.

Hence all of this Mars vs the Earth "theory" in which these "religious" "vermin" breed like cockroaches from hell (Mars dinosaurs, reptiles, lizards and snakes, etc.) having crawled out of the Sea of The Nun, and use the people of the Earth, whom they encourage to breed, for their own amusement, as a means of bleeding them dry, simply by crucifying them.

Just a précis for you.

These are the inventors of "religion", fools and kings.

Pity really. I had a HIGHER ideal.

Love.

"Hergé"

[LANMaster]

Your point about collective punishment is a valid one, DN. But in reality, the majority of Palestinians tend to harbor these terrorists.