TO: "Tim de Mello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tariq writes: I will agree with you when you show me the UN resolutions for intervention in Grenada, Panama and Vietnam.
Mario replies: Those were Cold War days. Different times, different conditions, different rationales. It's kind of hard to explain UN resolutions to someone like Tariq who refuses to acknowledge them and what they have called for. Here is what one anti-Vietnam activist says today: "Four months after the Democrats cut off aid to Cambodia and Vietnam in January 1975, both regimes fell to the Communist armies. Within three years the Communist victors had slaughtered two-and-a-half million peasants in the Indochinese peninsula, paving the way for their socialist paradise. The blood of those victims is on the hands of the Americans who forced this withdrawal: John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, and George McGovern – and antiwar activists like myself." - David Horowitz Tim de Mello, an anti-Iraq-liberation gang member heartily agrees with Tariq: Yes, and we must not forget that if non-conformance to UN resolutions was the reason for the US intervening in the affairs of Iraq, then the US should have acted against Israel many years ago. It has consistently disregarded UN resolutions. Instead the US consistently vetoes UN resolutions even when the rest of the Security Council are unanimous. A double standard. A visit to http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html will give one an idea of the scale of this double standard. Mario replies: Tim, In the case of Israel, there is much blame to go around, but part of the double standard is from the UN. The US vetoes all UN resolutions against Israel because the resolutions never include the hostile actions by the Palestinians, only the reactions of Israel. To get into this issue you must be prepared to go back to the formation of Israel by the Brits and the UN, the early attempts by the Arabs to wipe it out, losing territory each time, the subsequent acceptance of Israel's right to exist by Arafat in the late 80s, and the continuing refusal by most Arab states to recognize the state of Israel. Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al Aqsa Brigades still don't accept Israel's right to exist. With Arafat's passing there now seems to be some movement towards a 2 state solution. If not, Israel will complete its security wall, which it should have built decades ago, and everyone will suffer, especially the peace-loving Palestinians who depend on Israel for their livelyhoods.