- Israel Condemned by the UN Security Council 84 times
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- Posted By: Art Bishop
- Date: Friday, 13 September 2002, 8:40 p.m.
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- Dear Mr. O'Reilly:
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- May I congratulate you for your tempered respect for
international law demonstrated on your show of 9/12/02. I'm curious to
know whether or not you hold your standards universally. You maintain that
Iraq's flaunting of international law in the past and present warrants
initiating a war on that nation.
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- I would like you to consider the one nation that has
been condemned by the UN Security Council (including the US) not 16 times
like Iraq, but 84 times. Its current leader even had a UN Security Council
resolution condemning his role in killing civilians (UN SC Res 101; 24
Nov 1953). This nation remains in total violation of 67 Resolutions since
1967 for war crimes. These include acts of aggression, annexation of foreign
land, deportation of civilians, illegal colonization of foreign land, killing
of civilians (17,000 civilians killed in its invasion of Lebanon in 1982
according to the AP), destruction of civilian property and repeated occupation
of foreign lands. It also includes the brutal massacre of over 1,000 civilians
in Beirut, overseen by this nation's current leader (UN SC Res 521; 19
Sep 1982). In the year 2002 alone, this rogue nation has had 4 UN SC Resolutions
condemning it, and it remains in violation of these as well (UN SC Res
1397, 1402, 1403, 1405; 12 Mar, 30 Mar, 4 Apr, 19 Apr 2002).
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- Understand that these are not UN General Assembly Resolutions,
which are non-binding. They are Security Council Resolutions, which are
legally binding and which the US government has approved.
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- No, this nation that has violated more international
laws than any current country and has never once been punished militarily
or faced sanctions, is not Iraq. Its America's ally, Israel.
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- So I ask you, Mr. O'Reilly, when are you going to be
even-handed and call for war against this rogue state? Law is law, and
if you use international law to condemn Iraq, you must apply the same standards
to Israel.
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- For a complete list of UN SC Resolutions condemning Israel
please visit:
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- <http://www.palestine-un.org/res/1a.html>http://www.palestine-un.org/res/1a.html
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- Benjamin Dov Granby
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- Now, if everyone reading this were to write a similar
letter to all their congress people and all the media they can get to,
we might just have a chance to stop this war before it gets totally out
of control.
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