UN Bias? Never!
Has Kofi Annan taken the opportunity to apologize for his hasty condemnation of Israel's strike on Qana? Israel, stricken by the information that its aerial bombardment on that town resulted in the deaths of civilians was quick to apologize, to promise an investigation, and when the results of that investigation were made known, to admit it had miscalculated, the deaths were accidental. Not surprising, in a theatre of war. Hardly surprising, when the enemy who had fifteen minutes earlier lobbed death-dealing rockets at Israel's civilians with death-malice aforethought, also has the forethought to leave, with their launchers, as soon as their rockets strike down on Israeli territories. Lest that last sentence not adequately penetrate one's thought processes: Hezbollah uses its rocket launchers within civilian enclaves, then hastily departs the scene, leaving the civilians whom they "protect" and "care for" and later mourn, to their own defences against Israeli responses.This was the scene of utter devastation where no fewer than 57 people were killed outright, among them some 27 children, others women. Much is still to be explained with respect to that dreadful event: why, for example, the apartment building in whose basement they were sheltering seemed to collapse long hours after it was struck, why these vulnerable women and children were being "sheltered" in that particular building, why some of the corpses which were unearthed from the wreckage appeared to be in an advanced state of decomposition. Of course the additional fact later brought to light that it was 28 people who were killed in that unfortunate attack, and not the originally-reported 57 also might be explained. Is the United Nations interested in any of these details?
It is more than passing interesting that the United Nations, the Red Cross and other humanitarian groups which profess to be unbiased and interested only in assisting victims of tragedies, are so quick to pass damning judgement on the State of Israel, while no fingers of blame ever point elsewhere. Israel is to decamp instanter, pull right out of Lebanon, that poor bleeding country, to stop killing its people, demolishing its infrastructure, damaging its future. In the process Israel invites Hezbollah to recoup its damaged resources, to once more launch rockets at will without response, into Israel, to continue killing Israel's people, demolishing the country's infrastructure, damaging its future.
We've heard about the environment disaster caused by a massive oil spill on Lebanon's coast, because of an Israeli aerial strike. We've heard the desperation in the voices of commentators that the disaster's proportions are inestimable, the damage horrible, that something should be done immediately to clean things up before it becomes impossible, yet it is impossible to begin the clean-up process because Israeli war activities will not permit the clean-up to commence. What is heard of the Hezbollah-launched rockets burning up acres upon acres of forests within Israel, an environmental disaster that puts forestry in that country back 50 years? Oops, somehow overlooked.
While the United Nations and the European Union are bemoaning the fact that an estimated million people are now homeless in Lebanon, having fled from the immediate scenes of bombardment, and it truly is a disaster of immense proportions, what do we hear of civilians within Israel living in bomb shelters, leaving towns, villages and kibbutzim to move beyond the border, for fear of their lives and that of their family members?
Perhaps most astounding of all is the proposal to the United Nations by France, that great good friend and ally of Israel, the country which the United Nations has deputized to lead the UN-approved peacekeeping force in souther Lebanon, that Iran should play a "stabilizing role" in the region. Got that? Iran whose proxy jihadist army initiated this dreadful carnage, and whose actions, reactions, incendiary statements of intent is to play a "stabilizing role" in the region.
Is France so morally corrupted, so criminally obtuse in the sheer breathtaking scope of its deliberate stupidity, that it can utter such a statement, such an intent of purpose, such an undertaking? Certainly it is a proposition that the United Nations would be quick to take to its bosom, with great relief, moreover, given the current state of opposition between nuclear-warheading Iran's ambitions, and the alarm of countries like the United States, Great Britain, and certain members of the EU, let alone "moderate" Middle East countries.
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy stating that "In the region, there is a country such as Iran", "A great country, which plays a stabilizing role." And those of this incredible mind-set will be tasked with overseeing a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. I can just picture it: A French-led group, augmented by Iranian Revolutionary Guard, defanging Hezbollah.
The United Nations must be very pleased with the positive turn events are taking.
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, August 06, 2006
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