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UN envoy: Israel bombing breaks humanitarian law
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Published: 23.07.06, 15:15
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1. what to say about hizbullha arming itself under UN's nose?
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (07.23.06)
here we have the UN criticizing israel when it stood idly by while hizbullah armed itself to the teeth, planned, and carried out the terror that started all of this. and now they have the gall to criticize israel. israel was minding her business, staying out of lebanon's affairs when hizbullah entered israel to kill and kidnap soldiers. israel has EVERY right to fight when war has been declared in it. if the UN is interested in correcting their mistakes and stop being a world wide embarrassment they would condemn the lebanese who, like arafat, abbas etc, claim they are powerless to do anything about terrorists. until then, they should get out of the way and let israel do what they are too scared to do.
2. No military solution? Only a political solution???
amnon   (07.23.06)
Since when is a military solution not going to work? Why in the world should Israel take the UN's word for anything? Ok, let Israel bomb Lebanon and fight whomever wants to be defeated, and IF the UN can come up with a "political solution" several weeks from now, we'll listen and consider it.
3. katjushas against Jews legal according to UN !!
(07.23.06)
4. LEBANESE GOVERNMENT' SUPPORT & COLLUSION WITH HIZBULLAH
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.23.06)
Terrorist Hizbullah is a member of Lebanon's government, with seats in the cabinet. The UN does not care that Lebanon's government colluded with Hizbullah in unprovoked acts of war against Israel. Warmonger Lebanon is showered with aid and sympathy. No aid is offered to victim Israel. Israel the victim - ferociously attacked with one million Jews endangered and in bomb shelters - is vilified and condemned. Hizbullah has purposely embedded themselves in densely populated civilian areas. Warmongers Hizbullah, their backers Iran and Syria, and Lebanon's government share sole responsibility for causing the suffering of Israelis and Lebanese. Every nation has the right to defend her citizens. The UN and other rabid Jew-haters continuously seek to deny Israel the basic human right of survival. The Innocent Bystander Myth Evelyn Gordon, THE JERUSALEM POST July 20, 2006 ...Far from being smuggled in without the government's knowledge, weapons earmarked for Hizbullah arrived openly in Beirut Airport almost every week - and the airport, unlike southern Lebanon, is fully controlled by the government and the Lebanese army. Yet the government never ordered the army to confiscate these shipments. Regular arms shipments also came overland from Syria. Yet these, too, passed openly and without hindrance through border crossings controlled by the Lebanese government. The Lebanese army has even openly assisted Hizbullah during the past week's fighting. Hizbullah's successful missile strike on an Israeli naval vessel Friday night, for instance, would have been impossible had the army's radar stations not given Hizbullah the ship's coordinates. Hizbullah does not have radar stations of its own. Far from repudiating Hizbullah's attacks on Israel, the Lebanese government has actively defended, facilitated and assisted them at every turn. There are thus no grounds for treating it as an innocent party in this conflict....
5. UN a terrorist agency
Marcel ,   Florida   (07.23.06)
The UN enables Sudan to continue exterminating the people of Dafur. The UN does not call Hezbollah missiles on Israeli cities against humanatarian law . The U.N is an arm of the enemies of Israel and all free people. Isn't it interesting that the U.N. sits comfortabally in New York,USA
6. OOM SHMOOM
Jennifer Teff ,   Nahariya Israel   (07.23.06)
I couldn't agree more with you Mike. The UN is a master of the triple standard, Israel can do no right, the Arabs can do no wrong, and the rest of the world. With their track record as peace keepers and just about everything else you would think they would refrain from criticizing us but we are their favorite punching bag ...
7. UN = Unwanted Nobodies
ROSA ,   ECUADOR   (07.23.06)
For the first time in your all existence , do something. Youa allow the Hezbollah to get weapons for many years and now you complain. You create the resolution 1559 and did nothing to promote the implementation.
8. Israel should be different from Hizbullah
Agop ,   Yerevan   (07.23.06)
Please do not turn blind to reality there. Israel is a legal state, and it should observe international law. Superiority of law. but is there a difference between the acts of "terrorist" hizbullah and Israel state. Israil violates int. law: israel kills civilians as Hizbullah does.
9. When UN start fullfilling the role they are supposed to
keren ,   sao paulo   (07.23.06)
and start being not only an unuseful but corrupted institution,then,and only then it can open its mouth! -Why did UN let hisbollah build that underground net in the last 6 years,under its nose,and kept silent?WHY? -Why didn't they resolv the refugees palis problems yet?WHY? -Why don't they resolv ANY of the worlwide grave problems ,still waiting for their solutions? -Why don't they do absolutely nothing? ( by the way...was it already cleared a pretty recent grave corruption accusation towards Annan's son?)
10. UN humanitarians
Sidney ,   USA   (07.23.06)
When did anybody in the UN ever give a damn over Arabs killing Israelis? The same Lebanese government that is "too weak" to take control of its territory and stop Hezbollah attacks is threatening to join Hezbollah in its war with Israel. Its PM is demanding rewards for Hezbollah terror, release of Lebanese prisoners and the Shaaba area. It is time to stop pretending to agree with this shell game of the Lebanese. The Israeli tactics are exactly what enabled Grant to win our Civil War. Colin Powell later formulated it as overwhelming force, not the nonsense of proportionate force.
11. jan egeland
lawrence ,   zefat israel   (07.23.06)
i am sick of you twisted sick morons at the u.n.wish you were here in zefat.rocket landed just outside my house.u.n supports arab terror against innocents.u.n=useful for nothing
12. UN Views
stude ham ,   outremont, quebec   (07.23.06)
Another day sees yet another wildly exaggerated anti-Israel statement by some UN poo bah! Ignoring that the the real horror was the use of these premises by an Iranian-Syrian backed army of terrorists, the UN rep tries to make-believe that the destruction of *fortress hezbollah* is some kind of *TRAGEDY*. What a laughable fool!
13. UN is a league of nations
(07.23.06)
14. Yeah, OK - NEXT!
Talula ,   Israel   (07.23.06)
What about kidnapping soldiers, killing more and attacking unprovoked. We Israelis should just ignore the UN and treat them with the contempt they deserve.
15. Apologies
Francois ,   Paris & Montréal   (07.23.06)
Israel must threaten UN of some kind of retaliation unless they apoligize. Enough is enough with UN defamation and UN support for Arab terror.
16. United Nonsense
Michel ,   Hamburg, Germany   (07.23.06)
...UNO demonstrate its consistent powerlessness once more. I didn´t hear a word from Jan Egeland and friends about the tremendous amount of civilian victims in Israel after dozens of suicide attacks in the last years. And what made this upholder of moral standards so speechless when Tehran denies the Holocaust and call for the destruction of Israel. I did not forget the corrupt role of UN when Nasser prepared his holy war in 1967. Yes Mr. Egeland, the innocent victims in Lebanon deserve our honest tears. It´s tragic and senseless but it is also the consequence of a political weak government who is controlled and dictated by Hizbullah. UNO has observed many years the fatal development without any interventions. You did not do anything to help Lebanon out of the trap. Now when Israel is paying the bill for your political impotence you make big appeals. You should better admit beeing partly responsible for this significant conflict and overcome your disorientation in confusing the real victim with a protected aggressor.
17. where was the UN when 800.000 Rwandans were murdered ?
(07.23.06)
18. and 8.000 Bosnians in Srebrenica ??
(07.23.06)
19. those who threaten us with annihilation
(07.23.06)
must no complain when being bombed to pieces am yisrael chai
20. Israel should not be a Poodle: refuse meeting Egeland
bernard Ross ,   St. Anns Bay Jamaica   (07.23.06)
"Egeland plans to travel to Israel on Tuesday to negotiate safe corridors by land, sea and air. " Israel refuse to meet with Egeland as he has judged before getting israel's evidence. Israel should insist UN sends non-partisan rep.
21. Blow up UN just to make sure.
Play it safe   (07.23.06)
22. UN Response
lynne wooldridge ,   austin, texas usa   (07.23.06)
The UN is a morally bankrupt, ineffectual organization that has shown no concern for the people of Israel. Indeed, no one can doubt their anti-semitism. Horrified by what Israel has done to Lebanon? Where is the moral outrage for the constant attacks on Israel? Israel is fighting a war against terrorism within their own borders. They have shown restraint, and no other country would have done so if faced with the relentless attacks on its citizens. There are far more serious violations on human life and rights, and notice that they are slilent on those! The UN is biased in every way against Israel.
23. UN silence to Islamic terrorism
J ,   Newcastle, UK   (07.23.06)
and Muslim imperialism is worst! Israel is retaliating attacks, Justice is on its side. If HezbAllah and their Iranian masters get what they want (G_d forbid!!!) there be a massacre of Jews in their homeland and the survivers will be enslaved in dhimmitude. Israel's best weapon is the love of Hashem. Let's hope they never forget that. May Hashem strengthen the arms of Israel and lead them to victory over their enemies.
24. UN finally speaks UP!
Ralf ,   NY, US   (07.23.06)
Lebanon is destroyed and hundreds of civilians were murdered by the IDF.
25. Again, holding us to a higher standard
Sharon ,   Haifa, Israel   (07.23.06)
26. and US killed 100 000 in Iraq
Ago ,   Yerevan   (07.23.06)
27. meanwhile... in the SUDTENLAND
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28. Kids...!?
Ralf ,   NY, US   (07.23.06)
It seems to me that most people who write the talkbacks are kids who have no idea about anything. Or stupid teenagers at the very best. I'm outta here.
29. Let pray for Isreal success
Mallikarjuna ,   India   (07.23.06)
Military solution only enterered 10 days back, but Political solution was there for more 2 decades, did it yeilded any results. Let Lebanon pay its price for supporting Hezbollah. If Hezbollah is product means Lebanon is factory and raw materials from every where (especially from Iran and Syria).
30. UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland
chaim ,   miami beach USA   (07.23.06)
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland is shedding crocodile tears of the organization that he represents that historically aided and abetted Hate and Repression was used for illegal theft by its administrators. UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland is totally ignoring the reason for the calamities befalling the hapless so called civilians who refused to or just ignored the continual warnings from Israel to vacate the separate country under the terrorist domain. It is irrefutable that the current situation was and is a by product of the United Nations arrayed against Israel that UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland by turning a blind eye to all the act of preparations that the terrorists were building with their knowledge and concurrence “and “FOR” the collusion of the Lebanese Government and its citizens supporting and encouraging the separation of Lebanon into 2 separate states the southern one governed under a coalition of terrorists and the northern one a mixture of terrorists and willing captives. To lay the blame for the current hostilities only on the Israelis is the height of sheer blindness emanating from hate. I guess that it is part of the Islamic sick mentality how and what their method is of waging war. Islamic theory has a total disregard for life as they strongly believe that upon their death they are rewarded by 72 nubile virgins. Islamic way of warfare is “Start a conflict, if successful great, if not use your civilian population as cannon fodder and cry to the world “LOOK how many civilians are being slaughtered, LOOK how our civilians are suffering, the WORLD must put a STOP to such “Blatant violations of INTERNATIONAL LAW, What they refuse to allow is their refusal to allow the civilian population to leave the area of conflict, so that there are many civilian casualties. In the 11 days of this conflict there are far fewer civilian casualties then in any Islamic vs Islamic conflict, just who many civilians were murdered by their fellow Islamists in Iraq during the same 11 day period, just why does UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland not make any protest against such blatant directly targeting civilians murders, when the United Nations arrayed against Israel and the UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland address such violence then he may have a voice to state his mind, absent that every thing and all his protest has the value of the minutia spouting for the orifice located on his face.
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