If Turtle Bay Had a Moral Compass... Contributed by Bill Faith
If Turtle Bay Had a Moral Compass... An alternative resolution on “The
Situation in the Middle East.”
By Claudia
Rosett
It’s happy hour at the United Nations. After
four weeks of Hezbollah-provoked war in Israel and Lebanon, accompanied
by much diplomatic hand-wringing, the U.N. Security Council met Friday
evening to adopt 15-0 its latest attempt to paper over the real
problems:
This
resolution is meant to deliver the “ceasefire” that Secretary-General
Kofi Annan has been calling for, also described in the lingo of the U.S.
State Department as a “cessation of hostilities.”
Unfortunately, if Resolution 1701 has any effect at all, its real
meaning is that we now embark on a period in which Hezbollah will seize
the opportunity to regroup and reload. The feeble and compromised mix of
U.N. peacekeepers and the Lebanese army, which is the force authorized
in this resolution, will fail to stop them. ...
In sum, it’s
already time to start drafting the next resolution:
UNSC DRAFT RESOLUTION 1701-Plus
The Security Council,
Recalling that all its previous resolutions on the situation in
the Middle East have failed to evict terrorists and Syrian toadies from
Lebanon, failed to stop Iran’s terror-sponsoring and
nuclear-bomb-building projects, failed to protect Israel from unprovoked
attack, and failed to bring peace.
Recalling also that Israel in 2000 withdrew entirely from
Lebanon to the satisfaction of the U.N., and that Hezbollah deliberately
provoked this war by killing and kidnapping Israeli soldiers inside
Israel’s borders, and — in some cases using children as human shields —
has since fired into Israel with the intent of maximizing destruction
and civilian deaths more than 3,300 missiles, from an arsenal at least
four times that size brought illicitly into Lebanon under the gaze of
U.N. peacekeepers who have been at best passive and at times have been
caught actively collaborating with Hezbollah,
Expressing its alarm that Hezbollah has established itself over
the past 23 years as one of the world’s most ruthless, unscrupulous, and
barbaric terrorist groups, even though the United Nations due to the
pressures of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic
Conference has failed completely to define “terrorism” and therefore in
surreal fashion does not consider Hezbollah’s murderous Islamic fascists
to be terrorists,
Emphasizing that Hezbollah is a creation of Iran, abetted by
Syria; has infested Lebanon to the extent that it effectively serves as
an Iranian terrorist militia bordering on Israel and explicitly
dedicated, like the president of Iran itself to the annihilation of the
democratic state of Israel,
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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 14, 2006 at 11:30 PM in , , , , , , |