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UN official: Gaza border situation intolerable
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Published: 25.03.09, 18:53
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1. The UN continues to ignore fundamental facts
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (03.25.09)
The rockets are war crimes and the Arab leadership is responsible for every single one of them. We are not required to allow anything in at all. That is international law. All terrorist attacks are collective punishment and a crime against humanity. Deal with the frigging war crimes before whining to us that they aren't getting enough cigarettes.
2. absence of ceasefire...
Ilana   (03.25.09)
absence or not violence continues as Hamas will never stop crimes against us. They deserve nothing at least not until Gilad is home safe and sound.
3. And what if the rocket attacks don't end?
Darren ,   Oakland, CA   (03.25.09)
More useless rhetoric that doesn't provide a path of legal recourse for "irresponsible" actions. A responsible organization can't just issue condemnations and then expect people under fire to "play nice". Will someone please remind me again why the UN even exists???
4. "monthly debate"
Arie ,   BaGolan   (03.25.09)
Yet there isn't even an annual "debate" on Darfur, Chechnya, Somalia, Saudi, Yemen, Pakistan, and on and on. If there was no Israel, thousands of UN employees would be unemployed
5. "adds" rocket attacks must end
jew   (03.25.09)
whats the defnition of urges and adds???????
6. Make these UN ass#oles live in tents north of gaza
then they will ,   finally get it   (03.25.09)
7. More aid only after Shallit released, rockets stopped.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (03.25.09)
8. Pathetic UN toothless in face of Islamic terror
JPS ,   Efrat   (03.25.09)
This one is a real gem: "During the (mid February-mid March) reporting period more than 100 rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel from Gaza. These attacks, targeting civilian areas, are irresponsible and must cease." Attacks targeting civilians are "irresponsible"?!?!?!? That's the best this overpaid bureaucrat can do? Shooting rockets at civilians is a war crime, and after 8 continuous years of war crimes Pascoe's understatement simply shows how useless the UN has become.
9. OCCUPIERS? HAMAS CLAIMS VICTORY
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (03.25.09)
10. They complain about missile rains...
Marco ,   Spain   (03.25.09)
in the South. Do you know the answer to the missile enigma now? If you dont, then you are idiots. Push people to desperation and missiles will rain on your heads.
11. #3 Darren
ben Ish   (03.25.09)
You wrote "Will someone please remind me again why the UN even exists??? " There are actually two related reasons for the UN. 1) It provides a forum and global acceptance for Arabs to pretend that they have a just cause, and that Israel is evil. 2) It provides cover for bigots to hide their hatred for Jews behind. They pretend moral outrage at Israel, but really they are full of hate and ignorance, and don't even have the conviction of their own hypocrisy to say things in the open. UN: Cowards who claim Israel is responsible for terrorists whose sole purpose in life is to kill Jews and destroy Israel. 3) Oh I almost forgot, it also provides support for left wing Israelis who claim Israel is responsible for it's neighbors actions, and that (I guess) we should accept every Arab that wants to live here, without questioning their loyalties because THAT would be uncivilized, right?
12. "Adds" figleaf
TonyL ,   Bay Area, CA   (03.25.09)
The sentence equalibrium quickly becoming popular choice to push anti-Israeli measures. Remember when they used to say "Israel must" , period. Well , the questions of "where the Arab obligations are" can be stretched only so much with "we are weak & powerless" excuse. Whether some are anti-Semites or hard, hard core Israeli bashers with hidden agendas, targets & goals on their minds, when they speak they are all the idealistic humanists. Doesn't it look like a fair & balanced request? The only problem is majority of both, us & them, know where they can shove "rocket attacks must end" with regards to practical ending of rocket attacks. But but adding it nto the statement, Israel better DO what she must do. No excuses, aren't they fair & balanced in what they had asked both sides to do?
13. Missile rain
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (03.25.09)
"Push people to desperation and missiles will rain on your heads." That's a two-way street, Marco. And Israel's are bigger and better than theirs.
14. we are desperate
Ilana   (03.25.09)
and yet we do not daily reign missiles on civilians, not in Spain and not in Gaza. Not in ceasefire and not during war time. And we don't blow up malls on anice sunny day, or enter a house and bash in a 4 year olds head, we don't blow ourselves up in a humus restaurant in Gaza, we don't blow up a busload of kids, and we don't hide behind our civilians or operate from our homes in order to cry war crimes when we retaliate a missile shot from a school. You cannot compare apples (us) and worms (them).
15. Like Jack Bauer says, "they can make it stop"
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (03.25.09)
Just return Shalit and stop launching missiles at Sderot, and everything will be peachy.
16. Crossings
Rosie ,   Israel   (03.25.09)
You want open crossings - return Shalit.
17. Just found out
Matityahu ,   Slovenia   (03.25.09)
that the UN is intolerable. What should we do?
18. gaza border
mohson   (03.25.09)
Gazans, if it is intolerable, it is due to hamas islamic mismanagement. Grab hamas and break their necks. Middle class, revolt and form a business government. As for the UN, you can kiss my ass with your quislings of solana and moratinos, sarkosy, even brown and the scandis and belgium who also kiss arab ass.You all resemble ehud olmert, the biggest arab asskisser with livni not far behind.
19. COMPREHENSIVE AND JUST PEACE
Palestinian   (03.25.09)
You can't and will not be able to stop even the "Kassam" which is made from pasta, (which is sitll flying) As long as the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians continues. Do not forget in 1901 when Jews were living in Palestine in peace. You started every thing not us. We have every right to stand up for Palestine 1901. Peace to all
20. UN official should take a cooking tour up the Mekong.
Ypip ,   Canada   (03.26.09)
21. #10 exactly, that's why the palis got what's coming to them
(03.26.09)
22. The UN has served what usefulness it once had ..
Jane ,   London - UK   (03.26.09)
The UN has passed its sell-by date and needs to be wound down. It is now in the hands of extremists and bites the hands that feed it. Similar to Muslims that suck their hosts dry. The US should simply cut off funding. Leaders can now communicate by way of video links and many other means, so the US is now an anachronism and a negative one at that. Jane
23. #14 - we are compassionate but not "desperate" ..
redbourn ,   tel aviv   (03.26.09)
by saying "we are desperate", you send the wrong message to terrorists and you encourage them. We are not "desparate" and our busses and shopping malls etc are full of people. We can sustain what they do to us indefinitely, but they should stop because they're suffering is much greater than ours. Mike
24. gaza border situation is intollerable?????
(03.26.09)
so is 8,000 missiles coming from gaza into israel and suicide bombers, throat slitting by arabs against jews in israel, arab tractor driver terrorists who kill and maim israeli civilians and the kidnapping of israeli soldiers IS ALSO INTOLLERABLE!
25. The UNO and Human Rights.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (03.26.09)
The United Nations has done nothing whatever to ensure the enforcement of the provisions of the Geneva Convention in the case of Gilad Shalit? Why has the United Nations done nothing to bring about cessation of bombardment of Israeli civilians as well as outrages committed by Hamas against its own subject population, including persecution of Christians and political opponents? To know more : http://xrl.us/beb4tu
26. There is no hunger or humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (03.26.09)
The "blockade" such as it is, can end any time that Hamas releases kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, revokes the genocidal Hamas Charter and agrees to recognize the right of Israel to exist and to negotiate peace with Israel. EU and USA financial contributions are being used to maintain a lawless, genocidal extremist regime that persecutes Christians and to finance terrorism against Israel. The problem to the solution in the Middle East is the jihadist ideology to whose followers it is their religious duty to fight the infidels and therefore any peace treaty or hudna can only be temporary. Peace is by definition impossible until we tackle the jihadists". As to human rights let’s be fair : http://xrl.us/bea8f6
27. desperate and turn of the 20th century attacks
Catherine   (03.26.09)
Living in the south and having to cover your kid with your body while out on the sidewalk, when a siren goesoff,warning of a grad missile falling,is desperate. Call it what it is! And in 1901 there were still attacks against Jews. Arabs attacked Gedera. In 1913 they attacked Jewsin Rehovot. In 1920 Jews were killed and wounded by arabs in Jerusalem. In 1929 67 Jews including children, women and the elderly were massacred. It goes on and on. What was the excuse back then?? Learn your history.
28. learn some history!
History fan   (03.26.09)
"The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself derives from "Plesheth", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Plesheth, (root palash) was a general term meaning rolling or migratory. This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast from the sea. The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs." "The Philistines reached the southern coast of Israel in several waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in 1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean islands - overran the Philistine districts. " "From the fifth century BC, following the historian Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean "the Philistine Syria" using the Greek language form of the name. In AD 135, after putting down the Bar Kochba revolt, the second major Jewish revolt against Rome, the Emperor Hadrian wanted to blot out the name of the Roman "Provincia Judaea" and so renamed it "Provincia Syria Palaestina", the Latin version of the Greek name and the first use of the name as an administrative unit. The name "Provincia Syria Palaestina" was later shortened to Palaestina, from which the modern, anglicized "Palestine" is derived." "This remained the situation until the end of the fourth century, when in the wake of a general imperial reorganization Palestine became three Palestines: First, Second, and Third. This configuration is believed to have persisted into the seventh century, the time of the Persian and Muslim conquests. " "The Christian Crusaders employed the word Palestine to refer to the general region of the "three Palestines." After the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years (1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, the Palestine region was attached administratively to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and applied to the territory in this region that was placed under the British Mandate for Palestine. " "The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Roman "Palaestina". From various historical books: "The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin a fictional entity. "
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