teevee,
re: the UN. So what else is new? There are 22 Arab countries and only one Israel. The only measure that the UN ever voted in Israel's favor was the partition vote of 1947. Ever since then, the UN has condemned Israel for everything, unless the US vetoed the decree. Israel was condemned for taking the territories. Were Israel's neighbors condemned for waging a war whose stated purpose was to destroy Israel? Nah.
The UN has cheerfully complied with every Arab request designed to prevent peace. For example, every other refugee population in the world has been dealt with by the UN High Commission on Refugees, whose mission is to return or resettle the refugees. The Arab refugees from Palestine got a special UN body, UNWRA, who not only accepted a relaxed definition of 'refugee' (they only had to be settled in Palestine for 2 years instead of the normal 20, which many would not have qualified for), but was specifically not given the mission to resettle the refugees, only to feed them in situ, thus keeping the whole issue alive as a running sore. All the Arab countries (except Jordan) helped by not giving the refugees citizenship, permission to move, or even work papers. Are they practicing apartheid? Perish the thought.
And the result is a million Palestinians who are fixated on the one acceptable place to live, a place they've never seen and which usually hasn't existed for fifty years:
nytimes.com
So in short, your news is not new. |
