Israel plows ahead
By Ted Belman
Well last night’s resolution by the UNSC already is of no significance.
The diplomatic-security cabinet rejected on Friday a United Nations Security Council cease-fire resolution and ordered the Israel Defense Forces to expand its current ground operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
Not only that, insiders are now saying it had no chance of going anywhere.
EU diplomats: Egypt’s refusal to station foreign troops on Gaza border holding up truce
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Egyptian efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire appeared on Friday to have to run into trouble because of disagreements with Israel over how to secure the border to prevent Hamas from rearming, diplomats said.
Israeli and European diplomats, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said Egypt had objections to proposals for foreign forces deploying on the Egyptian side of its 15-km (9-mile) border with the Gaza Strip.
[..] “The truce talks are going nowhere at the moment,” said a senior European diplomat involved in the effort. “There is a growing sense that the Egyptian-French plan is not going to work.”
Good.
Good for them.
Now unleash Hell!
Vayechi: It’s Payback Time
by Rabbi S. Weiss
Reacting to intractable, unrepentant evil
For years, we in Israel have tolerated an evil entity in our midst. Hamas has blown up school buses, shot babies in their cribs, murdered our captured soldiers. When we foolishly handed Gaza to these terrorists and naively begged them to become our peaceful neighbor, they used every second and every shekel to arm themselves to the teeth so they could kill as many people as possible. Seven-thousand deadly rockets later, we are finally reacting to that intractable, unrepentant evil.
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Good must vanquish evil.
What is unfolding now, in this unique moment in history, is a lesson of ultimate value: good must vanquish evil, and injustice must be answered by justice - and revenge.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/8498
Comment by Max — January 9, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Yep. This war is going to be settled the wars have always been settled. Last night, I stated my view the UN is a useless talk shop. The events today reveal to us… that diplomats do the cleanup work but diplomacy has never really interrupted the course of war. Nowhere in history.
Comment by NormanF — January 9, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Great. If you ask me, Egypt doesn’t really want a ceasefire. I think they would like Israel to finish the job.
Comment by Laura — January 9, 2009 @ 4:20 pm
All those UN member states (mainly France and the EU) who drafted or supported UN Resolution 1860 should be ashamed for not abiding by their binding obligations to fight terror, as clearly spelled out in UN Security Council Resolution 1566, passed under Chapter VII in October 2004. Some excerpts follow:
“[The UN Security Council] calls upon States to cooperate fully in the fight against terrorism, especially with those States where or against whose citizens terrorist acts are committed …in order to find, deny safe haven and bring to justice …any person who supports, facilitates, participates or attempts to participate in the financing, planning, preparation or commission of terrorist acts or provides safe havens.” (Article 2)
“[The UN Security Council] recalls that criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public …are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature, and calls upon all States to prevent such acts and, if not prevented, to ensure that such acts are punished by penalties consistent with their grave nature.“ (Article 3)
Once again, the UN and its Security Council members violated their own resolutions. When will Israel point fingers to this glaring dereliction of duty?
Comment by salomon — January 10, 2009 @ 3:18 am