U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel

I punch you in the nose you black my eye. I pick up a stick, you get a bat. I pull a knife, you get your gun. No fair you cheated. Excessive force. Please kick their ass Israel, all freedom loving people are behind you.

Someone in the Administration found some backbone, don't know where but they did.

This is from JW yesterday: National security spokesman Frederick Jones said, "Hezbollah terrorism is not in Lebanon's interest," he also added that the group's efforts to arm itself and carry out attacks from Lebanon are "a direct threat to the security of the Lebanese people, and the sovereignty of the Lebanese government."

Get this : "a direct threat to ... the sovereignty of the Lebanese government."

Them's powerful words.

Shame on Britain and Denmark. They should both know better.
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I agree with you, and yet . . .with everybody else voting for this horrible resolution, I suppose abstaining can be seen as "an act of courage". God help us if the West really is that weak.

Sometimes I really am proud to be American.

The only way to deal with those UN weenies is a swift kick in the ass.

God Bless Israel, we are behind you 100%

Now go out and kick some jihadi ass!

It amazes me that the United Nothing Insecurity Council can scramble to definitive action in a matter of hours when Israel is engaged in a fight for survival against muslim savages, but when the entire world is threatened by Iran or North Korea, the illustrious diplomats cannot conur to save their lives, or ours.

May the members of the UN Security Council, a cabal of pusillanimous, self-serving jerks, rot in Hell. Israel, don't worry about the price of oil----kick ass. The UN is a miserable failure and a FARCE.

God Bless Isreal to stand up to the terrorists. God Bless the USA.

How sovereign is the state of Lebanon when terrorists can roam about wherever they want in its territory and bomb the infrastructure of its neighbor at will? Really, where are the Lebanese army and air force? Why do the Israelis have to take care of terrorists attacking it from a neighboring state? Why doesn't the neighboring state take care of the jihadis in its own back yard?

That would be, "Why do the Israelis have to take care of terrorists attacking them from a neighboring state?"

Those who voted in favor

Islamic
Qatar

Dhimmi
China
Russia
France
Argentina
Congo
Ghana
Greece
Japan
Tanzania

Why couldn't all the non-permanent members from Argentina to Tanzania simply abstain?

If Japan doesn't think that Israel's security is a serious issue, then the US should just acquiesce on the North Korean nukes - Japan's security isn't worth taking seriously either. Just ask Kim to snap relations with Iran and Pakistan, and go from there.

geekpunk

Britain had been subjected to 7/7, and Denmark had been subjected to the cartoon riots. No Jihadi assault to date has happened on Peru or Slovakia, so they ought to be commended for taking a stance that doesn't concern them.

Instead, I'd condemn China, Russia, France, Argentina, Congo, Ghana, Greece, Japan and Tanzania. Argentina, Congo, Ghana and Tanzania for not abstaining (since they have nothing to gain by Israel being insecure) and China, Russia, France, Greece and Japan for not voting the other way (since they all have Jihadi problems with the Uygars, Chechens, Algerians, Turkey and in Japan's case, North Korea's links to Iran and Pakistan).

This Qatari resolution should not have got off the ground, particularly given that US resolutions on Iran (and before that, Iraq) typically tend to be non starters, not only due to Chinese or Russian veto threats (why btw does France or Britain have a veto anymore?), but also because almost none of the 10 non-permanent members are inclined to support them.

It shows the irrelevance of the UN. If the US were to choose to go to war with Iran, why should Argentina or Congo get to say no, (beyond the obvious question of what to they gain by it?) Similarly, are China, Russia or France really willing to go to war with the US should Iran be attacked? If not, why is this puerile exercise called diplomacy, particularly involving the UN, being taken seriously at all?

"It amazes me that the United Nothing Insecurity Council can scramble to definitive action in a matter of hours when Israel is engaged in a fight for survival against muslim savages, but when the entire world is threatened by Iran or North Korea, the illustrious diplomats cannot conur to save their lives, or ours."

So true! Does everything in the UN come down to how much melanin people have in their skin? Is that what it's all about, ultimately? And they feel they have to make up for centuries of 'less melanin gives you more rights', by now going for 'more melanin gives you more rights'.

Sorry, it just seems to come down to nothing but a few dots of brown stuff in the skin. It's so meaningless...

In Bolton's words.....

Zatharas,
Agree with you 100%.

if this is to be the start of armageddon, as gwb says "bring it on"! lets wipe the floor with these islama-nazis while we retain the overwhelming technological advantage to do so. there's absolutely nothing to be gained by waiting. P.S. anyone notice how the dems are remaing quiet on all this? they're just waiting 'til gwb takes action and then whatever he does they'll pounce on him as usual.

I know we're not supposed to cut and paste articles, but this tripe is what's passing for journalism, but sounds like editorializing to me:

"In Gaza, misery index higher than ever
Residents hail Hezbollah's efforts, have sense of foreboding for Lebanon

By Fred Francis
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 8:48 a.m. MT July 14, 2006

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Israeli army on Friday withdrew from central Gaza Strip after intense fighting aimed at securing the release of a captured Israeli soldier.

The Gaza Strip remains ringed by Israeli tanks and troops, and Israeli forces bombed the offices of Hamas lawmakers, destroyed a bridge and fired a tank shell that killed one Palestinian on Friday.

Meantime, despite a sense of pride in the military actions of Hezbollah in Lebanon, residents of Gaza have first-hand knowledge Israel’s military might and a sense of foreboding for their counterparts in Lebanon.

What is the scene and the mood like in Gaza?
The Palestinians in Gaza have been emboldened by what Hezbollah did to the Israelis. The killing of eight Israeli soldiers and the kidnapping of two of them has really emboldened the Hamas government here. But, before Hezbollah’s actions just over 48 hours, it seemed that the Israeli stranglehold on Gaza was having some effect.

Conditions here are frankly miserable. There is almost no electricity, almost no one is working, there is almost no income coming in and it’s become a barter society. The constant Israeli artillery going on day and night for the last two weeks seemed to be taking its toll.

Many observers believed that a compromise with Hamas and the Israeli government was not too far down the road. There was a belief that Hamas would agree to give the soldier it kidnapped back and stop sending rockets into Israel; and in return, Israel would open up the gates, and start giving Hamas the money it owes the Palestinian people so they could put people back to work.

That all went out the window 48 hours ago when Hezbollah snatched the two Israeli soldiers. Even if Hamas wanted to compromise right now, they could not do it in the face of what their Hezbollah brothers have done.

So we are at a stalemate here and that’s the best way to describe what’s happening in Gaza right now."

My favorite quote "....giving Hamas the money it owes the Palestinian people so they can put people back to work..."

OOPS! I missed the end of the article.....
"How are ordinary civilians dealing with the difficulties?
I’ve been to Gaza many times in the last decade and there is a misery factor here at this time that I’ve never seen before.

The fishing boats are on their sides and haven’t left the ports. The people are listless. There is no liveliness in the streets. The Israeli predator drones can be heard overhead.

So there is a fear here. The Israelis have taken the gloves off when it comes to striking individual residences because they know that Hamas now holds meetings away from government buildings. So the Israelis are trying to kill Hamas officials wherever they are.

So the misery index is as high I’ve ever seen it.

For the ordinary civilians is there anything they can do?
This is survival. It has become a barter society. There are workers in the hotel who are giving their labor because they get to take bread home at night, instead of money, so they can feed their children.

A lot of what was grown here was sold in Israel and now that money is not coming in. So people who grow vegetables are bartering those vegetables for diesel fuel so they can run generators to keep their refrigerators cold so they can store goat’s milk from the goats in their backyard. So things have become very primitive.

There are no lights in the city at night. Even at 10 o’clock today, an hour before prayers, there was almost no one on the streets.

Do the people in Gaza have fears for the Lebanese?
Clearly the might of the Israeli Army has now focused to the north, and not on Gaza. Not that it makes much difference because there are enough Israeli tanks here to keep everything buttoned up.

The last thing Israel wanted was to fight on two fronts. But, now given the opportunity, Israeli military commanders who have been planning a strike against Hezbollah for six years are seizing the opportunity to put those plans into action.

Since the Israeli military pulled out of southern Lebanon six years ago, Israeli military intelligence has watched Hezbollah build up their forces there. And forty-eight hours ago — even though it was sad to see eight Israeli soldiers killed and two kidnapped — it really was for the Israeli high command like hitting the lottery.

Now everything is on the table and they are pounding Hezbollah where we can’t even see it. They have a list of military targets they’ve been collecting for six years and now they are doing it.

So people in Gaza here are watching that. While they are happy here in Gaza that the attention is off of them and they are rejoicing that Hezbollah had a moment of military brilliance — if you look at it with cold, hard military logic — but they know that the squeeze is going to go on Lebanon like it started two weeks in earnest on Gaza."

Fred Francis is an NBC News Correspondent

Here's my all-time favorite quote of this article...

"The last thing Israel wanted was to fight on two fronts. But, now given the opportunity, Israeli military commanders who have been planning a strike against Hezbollah for six years are seizing the opportunity to put those plans into action."

ROCK ON ISRAEL!!!